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Background: The neonatal period is generally regarded as the first 28 days of extrauterine life. Skin disorders are commonly seen in the neonatal period, most of which are transient and limited to the first days or weeks of life. In spite of being so frequent, these transient conditions usually escape dermatologist's observations, and consequently few have been studied. Aims: The study was designed to identify the dermatoses in the first 72 h of life; to report the relationship among the most common dermatoses with the newborn's features; and to verify how often dermatoses are reported by the neonatologist. Methods: The authors carried out a cross-sectional study on newborn's dermatoses in a brazilian public hospital, including 203 healthy neonates, until 72 h of age, with skin disorders. Results: Out of 34 different skin diagnosed conditions, hypertrichosis lanuginosa, Mongolian spot, sebaceous hyperplasia, epidermal hyperpigmentation, erythema toxicum, and salmon patch were the most frequent ones. The dermatoses with statistical significance were: Mongolian spot and epidermal hyperpigmentation with the non-white newborns; erythema toxicum and cutis marmorata with the white newborns; salmon patch with the female sex; physiologic desquamation with the cesarean section; acrocyanosis with the first pregnancy birth and Bohn's nodules with the vaginal delivery. Conclusions: Thirty-four different types of dermatological alterations were identified in the healthy newborn within 3 days of life at the Maternity School of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Underreporting of dermatoses with serious medical significance shows the importance of a dermatologist in the neonatal unit of a hospital.
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Objective: To analyze the connection between the age of the mother and the birth weight of the new born baby as well as the impact of weight index during pregnancy on the birth weight of the new born baby.Method: Analyze the weight of the 1301 new born babies delivered from January to December 2005 in the First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing University of Medical Sciences;analyze 576 first time lying-in women who had normal vagina delivery in the First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing University of Medical Sciences from January 1999 to July 2003,among which there were 184 samples of corpulence during early period of pregnancy with BMI equal to or higher than 24 and 152 samples of corpulence during confinement with BMI equal to or higher than 27.Observe the connection between the birth weight and the age and BMI of pregnant women.Results: Excluding gestational diabetes,non-full-month gestation,double and triple embryo gestation,the average birth weight of 1301 new born babies was 3396g with the average birth weight of 3453g for male babies and 3397g for female babies respectively,among which only those women at the age between 20 and 24 had the new born babies with the weight lower than the average.Compared the corpulent during early period of pregnancy with the compared group,the happening rate of huge baby is evident.Compared the corpulent during confinement with the compared group,the happening rate of huge baby is evident.Compared the weight increase equal to or higher than 15kg during early period of pregnancy with the weight increase lower than 15kg,the happening rate of huge baby is evident.Conclusion: Too young the age of the mother has negative impact on the development of fetus.Too much increase of weight during pregnancy results in increasing happening rate of huge baby.