{"id":30748,"date":"2025-03-03T10:20:05","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T04:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=30748"},"modified":"2025-04-15T23:00:45","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T17:30:45","slug":"neonatal-sepsis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/neonatal-sepsis\/","title":{"rendered":"Neonatal Sepsis"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Neonatal Sepsis Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Recently, the Lancet Global Health journal study said that more than a third of newborns diagnosed with sepsis could die.<\/p>\n<h2>About Neonatal Sepsis<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>blood infection<\/strong> that occurs in an infant <strong>younger than 90 days old.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It can be caused by bacteria such as <strong>Escherichia coli<\/strong> (E coli), <strong>Listeria<\/strong>, and some strains of <strong>streptococcus.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Symptoms of Neonatal Sepsis :<\/strong> Body temperature changes Breathing problems and Diarrhea or decreased bowel movements etc<\/li>\n<li><strong>Treatment:<\/strong> Sepsis in newborns is <strong>curable.<\/strong>Sepsis must be treated in a hospital, usually through <strong>antibiotics <\/strong>transmitted intravenously.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Prevalence of Neonatal Sepsis:<\/strong> Neonatal sepsis results in more than <strong>5,50,000 deaths globally every year<\/strong>. <strong>India <\/strong>accounts for nearly <strong>one-fourth of the global burden<\/strong> of infection-related deaths.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Classification of Neonatal Sepsis<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Early-onset Neonatal Sepsis:<\/strong> Most providers use the term \u201cearly-onset neonatal sepsis\u201d to describe sepsis that develops <strong>within the first 72 hours of life.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Late-onset Neonatal Sepsis<\/strong>: Most providers refer to \u201clate-onset neonatal sepsis\u201d as sepsis that develops <strong>after three days of life.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Neonatal Sepsis FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1. <\/strong>What causes sepsis in newborns?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans.<\/strong> Newborn sepsis is most often caused by bacteria<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2.<\/strong> Why does sepsis happen after birth?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans.<\/strong> Maternal sepsis usually occurs when a C-section incision, tear or other wound from childbirth becomes infected in the days or weeks after giving birth.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3.<\/strong> What age is neonatal sepsis?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans.<\/strong> Neonatal sepsis is a blood infection that occurs in an infant younger than 90 days old.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/health\/more-than-a-third-of-newborns-diagnosed-with-sepsis-could-die-study\/article69270764.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neonatal Sepsis is a serious blood infection in infants under 90 days old, requiring prompt diagnosis and treatment to prevent complications<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":30749,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-30748","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}