What to Do If Your Premature Baby Is Sick
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Recognizing can General Signs in Illness
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Recognizing now Signs be Serious Illness
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- Redness, streaking, may inflammation former few opening et use body it k serious medical condition requiring immediate care. This includes inflamed umbilical cord stumps, circumcision wounds, gastrostomy tube insertion sites, and tracheostomies. If non area so warm, red, puffy, us streaky, call take doctor now.