umbilical stump

Using an alcohol swab, clean around the umbilical stump.

Their friend's mother, after visiting her dying son, has sent them his umbilical stump, with a note that reads, "He's your responsibility now."

With a newborn, fold the top of the diaper down so that the umbilical stump is exposed.

It also functions as a covering to keep the diaper from rubbing against the umbilical stump, thereby reducing friction and irritation.

Your doctor can give you detailed directions for caring for your newborn's umbilical stump and circumcision area.

There may be some confusion, however, if a well-appearing neonate simply has some redness around the umbilical stump.

Placing a baby's umbilical stump inside a cupule and covering it with stones was meant to bestow health and longevity to the child.

It usually occurs through infection of the unhealed umbilical stump, particularly when the stump is cut with a non-sterile instrument.

The midwife thrust n iron poker into the flames of the fireplace, then touched the hot tip of it to the end of the umbilical stump.

But she did not repeat those feelings to old Urszula Wojnak when the midwife washed the little body and tended to the twisted umbilical stump late that night.

The picture may be clouded even further if caustic agents have been used to clean the stump or if silver nitrate has been used to cauterize granulomata of the umbilical stump.

Once bacteria enter through the navel stump, they can either cause a local infection in the umbilical stump or invade the bloodstream and cause infection most commonly in one or more joints of the body.

Severe toxic shock syndrome among previously healthy persons has been described in a small number of C. sordellii cases, most often associated with gynecologic infections in women and infection of the umbilical stump in newborns.

Hochman painstakingly portrays this unconventional family's affection for their friend; when he dies they all bury the umbilical stump in the garden, near "Mo's diaphragm, which she'd given a ritualistic burial to mark her coming-out years ago."

In Liberia, they are used as an application to the cut umbilical stump of newborn babies - 26% of newborn deaths in Liberia are due to infection, and inappropriate treatments such as Maggi cubes contribute to this.