TRANSEPIDERMAL WATER LOSS IN FULL‐TERM AND PRE‐TERM INFANTS

Wiley - Tập 72 Số s305 - Trang 27-31 - 1983
Gunnar Sedin1, Karen Hammarlund1, Bo Strömberg1
1From the Department of Paediatrics, University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden

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Sedin, G., Hammarlund, K. and Strömberg, B. (Department of Paediatrics, University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden). Transepidermal water loss in full‐term and pre‐term infants. Acta Paediatr Scand, Suppl. 305: 27–31, 1983.—The amount of water lost from the skin and the relation of the water loss to environmental factors, activity, body temperature, gestational age, nutritional status at birth and post‐natal age were studied in full‐term and pre‐term newborn infants. The method we used was non‐invasive and based on determination of the water vapour pressure gradient immediately above the skin surface. We found that the transepidermal water loss per unit time and area (TEWL; g/m2 h) could be calculated by using values from only three measurement sites. TEWL increased with activity and when body temperature was elevated above 37.1C. On the first day after birth TEWL in appropriate for gestational age (AGA) infants was exponentially related to gestational age, with much higher values in the most pre‐term infants than in full‐term infants. In full‐term small for gestational age (SGA) infants TEWL was significantly lower than in full‐term AGA infants. In pre‐term and full‐term AGA infants and in full‐term SGA infants we found an inverse linear relationship between ambient humidity and evaporation rate (ER; g/m2 h) from the skin. The level of ER and the slope of the relationship depended on the gestational age of the infant, with higher ER in the more pre‐term infants. Analysis of the relationship between ambient humidity and ER indicated that there is a gradual change in the permeability of the skin with gestational age. In pre‐term infants TEWL gradually decreased during the first weeks of life. In full‐term AGA infants TEWL was almost unchanged during these first weeks.

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