Low Birth Weight Research Paper

Causes and Consequences of Low Birth weight

Birth of a baby is the start of a new era of a generation. As the new born infants are the internodes of the future, In order to have a health and strength population they should be given the proper health status from the beginning of their life. From the birth an infant can cause lot of health risks such as birth defects, severe organ damages or functional problems and even the death. All most all the above health risks are occurred due to the nutritional problems as well as the physical damages. With the reference of most out coming results in the world, as LBW contributes to 60% to 80% of all neonatal deaths, the Low birth weight (LBW) has become a common problem that occurs at the first step of infants’ life and moreover it has become a severe problem as the health risks due to the Low birth weight can be even seen at the adulthood of a person who are born with low birth weight.

Birth weight is considered as the first weight that measures immediately after birth of the baby. Birth weight of an infant is a strong indicator of the newborn's survival chances, growth, long-term health as well as the psychosocial development. Furthermore it is an efficient sign of the health and nutritional status during the pregnancy period and pre pregnancy period. Low birth weight has been defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as weight at birth of less than2500 grams (5.5 pounds). According to their survey results low birth weight babies are approximately 20 times have the chance of being fatal than normal babies within the first year of their life time. This LBW has become a crucial issue especially in the developing countries rather than in the developed countries. According to the estimat...

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...gher chance of delivering LBW babies.

LBW babies are become such a crucial problem because Low-birth-weight can be affected in later in the life time too. Those babies may not be fully prepared to live in the environment which is full of infections and the ability of control their body temperatures, as well as they are not capable of gaining weight after birth too. Due to such complexness’s, almost all low-birth weight babies are cared under special units in neonatal intensive care unit before send to the family. In the future also they are tending to be undernourished, throughout their lives with reduced muscle strength, with a higher probability of diabetes and heart diseases. The LBW babies are also reports as much higher in have cognitive disabilities and a less IQ levels, since their performance in education and professional levels can be affected as adults.