How to deal with jaundice in babies? How to deal with jaundice in your baby

In general, most newborns do not need jaundice. However, there are two ways to develop neonatal jaundice** if needed:

1. Light**: Light** is an auxiliary to neonatal hyperbilirubinemia irradiated by fluorescent lamps. Exposure to light** usually relieves neonatal jaundice because UV light converts bilirubin into something that is easier to excrete through your baby's urine.

2. Exchange transfusion**: If the neonatal jaundice is more severe or the bilirubin level continues to increase after light**, the baby needs to undergo exchange transfusion**.

There are other things you can do to help your baby reduce neonatal jaundice. For example, make sure your baby is getting enough breast milk or formula so he can have more bowel movements. If you have any questions about your baby's neonatal jaundice, be sure to consult your doctor to make sure the mother has chosen the correct method for neonatal jaundice**.

If the symptoms of jaundice are relatively mild, you can take some medicine or drink more water and urinate more to get better, but it also takes a certain amount of time, as long as the doctor says it doesn't matter, parents can go home and give the baby medicine according to the doctor's instructions.

If the jaundice on the baby's body or face is more serious, you need blue light, which is a way to irradiate the baby through fluorescent lights, which has a good effect on jaundice, but when the light is carried out, you need to give the baby more water.

The symptoms of jaundice usually appear about two or three days after the baby is born, and they will be most obvious when they are four or five days old, but if the symptoms are not serious, they usually subside naturally between half a month and a month, so parents should not worry, this is a very normal phenomenon.

1) After the baby has jaundice, it is difficult for young parents to judge whether the jaundice is physiological or pathological, so when the baby has jaundice, it is best to take the baby to the hospital, so that the pediatrician can examine the baby and initially clarify whether it is physiological or pathological jaundice. 2) monitor jaundice as instructed by the doctor; 3) Maintain a stable and normal body temperature, appropriate early feeding, and promote meconium excretion, which is conducive to the reduction and early resolution of jaundice. 4) If necessary, take oral anti-yellowing drugs according to the doctor's instructions.

5) Timely hospitalization of severe patients**.

Chen Tieqiang, Changsha Maternal and Child Health Hospital.

The Department of Neonatology specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of pediatric first aid, very low birth weight infants, severe jaundice exchange transfusion, and pediatric epilepsy with neurological diseases.

Get plenty of sun

Newborn babies are prone to jaundice, sometimes elevated before they are discharged from the hospital, and sometimes only a few days after they return home. Therefore, the mother needs to observe carefully, if you find that the baby's face is yellowish, but the symptoms are not too serious, you can hold the baby out to bask in the sun, and in the process of sunbathing, let the baby's ** enjoy the sun, and the sun can also be yellowed every day.

However, when basking in the sun, you should not bask through the glass, and at the same time pay attention to covering the baby's eyes, so as not to burn the baby's eyes from the scorching sun.

Drugs**.

Under the guidance of the doctor, give the baby oral Yinyu Huang oral liquid, and at the same time, you can also give the baby to take drugs that regulate the stomach and intestines such as Mommy Love to help the baby defecate, which can quickly reduce the serum bilirubin level and significantly shorten the first time.

Breastfeeding is consistent.

Under normal circumstances, stop breastfeeding, and the baby's jaundice symptoms will subside significantly, but breast milk is the most ideal food for small babies, so don't stop casually, and there is no need to take a mixed feeding method of breast milk and formula too early. Unless the serum bilirubin level is too high, it is recommended to stop breastfeeding for three to five days.

Go to the hospital for medical treatment in time.

Physiological jaundice is generally 2-3 days after birth, to about 14 days to retreat, if the baby's jaundice symptoms continue not to subside, and gradually worsen, or suddenly aggravated, and, the baby appears malaise, drowsiness, difficulty sucking, stiffness of limbs or convulsions and other symptoms, then parents should send the baby to the hospital in time, so as not to delay the baby's condition.

If your child is a newborn, neonatal jaundice is a condition characterized by **, mucosal and scleral jaundice due to abnormal bilirubin metabolism during the neonatal period. In general, physiological jaundice usually appears 2 to 3 days after birth, peaks in 4 to 6 days, and resolves in 7 to 10 days, but pathological jaundice usually occurs in children with ABO hemolysis. Neonatal jaundice can cause **, nervous system damage, easy to be complicated by bilirubin encephalopathy, severe bilirubin encephalopathy has a high mortality rate, and survivors mostly have sequelae.

Neonatal jaundice, if it is physiological jaundice, generally does not need special **, the mother can strengthen breastfeeding, reduce the intestinal and hepatic circulation caused by hunger, and at the same time can promote bowel movements, reduce jaundice, you can also take the child outdoors to bask in the sun, you must pay attention to covering the eyes when basking in the sun. Jaundice can generally appear in full-term infants 2-3 days after birth, peak at 4-5 days, subside in 5-7 days, and the color can return to normal at the latest, no later than two weeks. Preterm infants can develop jaundice 3-5 days after birth, peak in 5-7 days, resolve in 7-9 days, and can be delayed up to 3-4 weeks.

If the child's jaundice is obvious, jaundice needs to be monitored, percutaneous measurement of jaundice is a more commonly used, simple measurement method, easy to operate repeatedly, more suitable for the monitoring of baby jaundice, usually choose to measure on the forehead, cheeks and chest, generally take the average value of the three parts, is the measured value, if the value is higher, or the bilirubin rises more than 5mg dl per day, or more than per hour, you need to consider the possibility of pathological jaundice, you need to go to the hospital for medical treatment.

Generally speaking, neonatal physiological jaundice does not need to be treated and does not need to be treated, but pathological jaundice is needed. **The most common method is blue light**, in addition to reducing the production of bilirubin.

It is actually very normal for newborns to have jaundice, so you should let your baby get more sun.

Neonatal jaundice is due to the baby's bilirubin is too high, and can not be discharged from the body in time to form jaundice, jaundice is divided into physiological and pathological, physiological do not care, pathological to go to the hospital, the doctor will be based on the results of the examination**.

Infant jaundice is a physiological phenomenon, don't worry too much, you can suspend breastfeeding, change to feed more nutritionally comprehensive milk powder, and choose Shengyuan milk powder.