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  • Title: [Water loss from the skin of preterm and newborn infants under phototherapy with standard-blue-light].
    Author: Stornowski C.
    Journal: Monatsschr Kinderheilkd; 1983 Jul; 131(7):448-50. PubMed ID: 6621562.
    Abstract:
    Water loss from the skin of 15 term and preterm newborn infants (gestational age 27-40 weeks; birth weight 670 g to 3,130 g) was measured using the Evaporimeter-method. All babies were treated with standard-blue-light-phototherapy on their first days after birth. The mean value, calculated by a special graphic method (approximation), was 14.3 ml H2O/kg . 24 h (8.8 g H2O/m2 . h) in babies weighing greater than 1,900 g. Below this birth weight the rate of water loss increased markedly up to ten-fold. Altogether there were no critical water losses under phototherapy with standard blue light when only one side of the patient's body was radiated. The values under blue light were a little higher than under daylight-white-phototherapy.
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