Don’t heat the milk to inappropriate temperatures to prevent nutrient decomposition and store it properly.
Exposing milk to high temperatures (over 80 °C [176 °F]) may induce changes in the fatty acid profile if compared to fresh breast milk. To avoid the nutrient destruction, the right preparation must be respected. Evidence shows that the major changes in the overheated...
Don’t reheat several times artificial or breast milk before feeding it to the baby.
It is common practice to reheat several times both breast and formula milk, using methods that do not guarantee the correct temperature such as pots, bottle warmers, microwave ovens. The preparation of milk before administration can be via baby bottles warmers with a...
Don’t replace devices without assessing the skin integrity.
The skin breakdown. i.e. the destruction of soft tissues is a disregarded situation. Believing that children are not exposed to tissue damage is wrong. On the contrary, they are at greater risk of prejudices subsequent to the action of forces such as pressure,...
Don’t run the newborn hearing screening at birth but at least after 48 hours of life in a 1st level birth center.
Newborn hearing screening allows an early detection of congenital hearing loss, whose prevalence is 1-3 cases per thousand births in the absence of risk factors. It must be performed in all birth centers, on all newborns before discharge, by trained personnel, in well...The campaign DOING MORE DOES NOT MEAN DOING BETTER – CHOOSING WISELY ITALY is promoted by Italy’s Slow Medicine
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