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What is Meconium and why babies pass it before birth? I Dr. Piyush Jain I Cloudnine Hospital

Basically meconium is the intestinal secretion which is there in the unborn baby’s intestine. So what happens is even when the baby is born and still in the mother’s womb, this can start secretions and some epithelial cells are already there inside. This meconium is already in the unborn baby’s intestine and sometimes if the unborn baby goes into some kind of distress like if there is lack of oxygen called as hypoxia or there is asphyxia or there is complication of placenta like abruption of placenta or cord prolapse. So this causes a sudden deterioration in the baby’s condition and the unborn baby goes into a condition called as fetal distress. So what the happening of the fetal distress the intestine starts moving very fast, their anal sphincters open up and they sometimes pass this meconium even before the get delivered. So this meconium comes out of the amniotic fluid which surrounds the baby in the mother’s womb and since we all know baby is having swallowing and sucking motion, they aspirate this meconium along with the amniotic fluid and this goes into the baby’s lung. So once this meconium goes into the baby’s lung, this condition is called as meconium aspiration syndrome. So this usually happens in baby’s who are having some kind of a distress called as asphyxia and very rarely if the mother is having some kind of infection, the babies tend to pass meconium inside the mother’s womb. So meconium aspiration syndrome has a very wide spectrum. So the severity varies from very mild kind of diseases, wherein the baby will have just some mild respiratory distress and some oxygen requirement and to the other side it can be very serious in the form of severe respiratory distress and breathing trouble and babies are sometimes unable to breathe, develop pneumonia, infection and may require ventilation. So the spectrum is very wide and we have to be very watchful. So we have to take proper history, we have to ask the obstetrician how was the colour of the amniotic fluid, if we know yes, it was already a meconium stained amniotic fluid and the baby is having distress, then we know yes, the baby has aspirated meconium and has gone into a condition called as meconium aspiration syndrome and sometimes it is very serious condition, requires an ICU care, ventilation therapies and IV antibiotics also. Book an appointment with the doctor via the Cloudnine App: https://c9.onelink.me/BAn7/social or use the link for the doctor's appointment: https://www.cloudninecare.com/doctors... #weknowmoms #oncloudnine #meconium