Omphalitis risk factors
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Risk factors
Omphalitis is more common in those infants
- who have a weakened or deficient immune system.
- who are hospitalized and subject to invasive procedures.
- who are premature.
- sick with other infections such as blood infection (sepsis) or pneumonia.
- who had a prolonged birth.
- who had birth complicated by infection of the placenta (chorioamnionitis).
- who have had umbilical catheters.