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Neonatal hypoglycaemia — bedside response 🚨 👶
Neonatal hypoglycaemia — bedside response 🚨 👶
Glycogen stores, feeding transition and maternal diabetes can alter neonatal glucose adaptation; symptomatic or persistent low glucose risks neurological injury.
🔎 Recognise
Screen babies with locally defined risk factors; assess for jitteriness, poor feeding, hypotonia, apnoea, hypothermia or seizures. Glucose meters may be less accurate at low values.
🛟 First actions
Urgently involve the neonatal team for symptomatic, severe or persistent hypoglycaemia. Follow the neonatal glucose/feeding protocol, which may require supervised feeding, dextrose gel or intravenous glucose.
🧪 Investigations and reassessment
Confirm measurements with the appropriate laboratory or neonatal method where indicated, and reassess glucose at the specified interval. Persistent episodes warrant consideration of infection or metabolic disease.
⚠️ Common pitfalls and escalation
Do not apply adult hypoglycaemia thresholds, adult concentrated dextrose formulations or a paediatric resuscitation recipe without neonatal guidance.
UK reference: NHSGGC neonatal hypoglycaemia guidance. Focused editorial source check, 7 November 2026; this is not independent clinical or pharmacy sign-off. Verify current local policy, BNF/BNFC and specialist advice before treatment. Not a prescribing protocol.
Related guides: Child hypoglycaemia: IV 10% glucose 🚨 👶 ✅ · Febrile infant under three months 🚨 👶
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