Neonatal hypoglycaemia

Part of the job of a health professional working with pregnant mothers and childbirth is to monitor their health and welfare at all stages until the baby is healthily established in life, but if insufficient monitoring or care is available and a condition such as neonatal hypoglycaemia develops, its consequences may lead parents to seek legal advice from George Ide LLP solicitors.

A number of risk factors in the mother may suggest the possibility of a baby being born with neonatal hypoglycaemia. These include if she suffers from diabetes or has an infection around the time of the birth.

If the new-born child has suffered from a lack of oxygen shortly after birth, is born prematurely or is particularly small, these are other indications of a susceptibility to the low blood sugar condition developing.

Hypoglycaemia is one of the most common metabolic problems in new babies with approximately one in three children out of 1,000 births suffering from the condition. However, it is easily treated with a special feeding regime, but, if it is not recognised, the consequences can be extremely serious.

Brain damage with associated mental development problems, seizures and heart failure are the most severe results of a failure to adequately treat neonatal hypoglycaemia.

Most midwives, nurses and obstetric doctors in West Sussex are fully aware of the risk to Chichester and Bognor Regis mothers and their babies if they do not receive sufficient monitoring for the possibility of hypoglycaemia developing but sometimes their neglect can result in the disablement or suffering of a child.

Should you or your family have been put in this difficult position which was the fault of some other person or organisation failing, you may wish to consult the sympathetic legal team at George Ide LLP, whose experienced solicitors have helped many families to gain justified compensation for harm which has occurred.

Our independent, healthcare trained case managers will be on hand to assess and manage ongoing treatment and rehabilitation needs, subsequently providing critical information to enable our birth injury solicitors to pursue timely payment of funds from the insurers of the NHS trust or healthcare provider deemed at fault.

Our dedicated team members understand the many emotional and practical difficulties which can ensue from an instance of neonatal hypoglycaemia and with George Ide on your side you can be assured of a law firm combining professionalism with care.

For more information about George Ide LLP's special service for those who have suffered from birth injury medical negligence including neonatal hypoglycaemia, please call our West Sussex- based offices. Alternatively, for more information on the birth injury claims team, please click on the solicitor profiles provided.