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Proper treatment of anemia proves crucial for premature babies. According to their age in days and weeks, there are different thresholds to decide when blood transfusion is needed for such babies. If a baby is extremely sick and critical, he is given blood transfusion. However, if a baby is stable and hemoglobin levels are above a particular threshold, early oral iron supplementation is started at 2 weeks of age. This helps to build their iron stores and  prevent this anemia of prematurity. Despite this, extremely low birth weight babies are given 1-5 blood transfusions during the NICU stage. &lt;br&gt;Dr. Deepika Rustogi, pediatrician from Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh discusses treatment of anemia in premature babies.

Dr. Deepika Rustogi

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