How to monitor jaundice in newborn babies at home?

<> most newborns are susceptible to jaundice. Jaundice is divided into physiological jaundice and pathological jaundice, and the occurrence of jaundice is mainly due to the increase of serum bilirubin, which leads to yellowing of the patient's **, mucous membranes and other parts. When your baby has symptoms of jaundice, you need to go to the hospital**.

So, how do newborns test for jaundice at home?

Newborns are not able to measure jaundice at home, and they need an instrument to measure jaundice, and this kind of instrument is only available in hospitals, so the detection of jaundice still needs to be done in a regular hospital. However, when parents are at home, they can observe the degree of yellowing of the baby's condition according to the baby's face, hands and feet.

If it is physiological jaundice, then parents do not have to worry too much. At this time, pay more attention to the baby's feeding situation, let the baby defecate more, can expel bilirubin from the body, so that the baby's jaundice symptoms disappear. However, parents should pay attention to hydrating the baby, so that the baby can excrete bilirubin from the body.

Also, the baby's physiological jaundice will resolve on its own after a few weeks.

If it is pathological jaundice, then parents need to pay attention to the baby's diet and let the baby's body excrete bilirubin, parents need to take the baby to the hospital**. In this case, blue light is generally required**, so when it is determined that the baby is pathologically jaundice, it is necessary to go to the blue light incubator**. At the same time, it is necessary to pay attention to the changes of bilirubin in the baby's body at all times, so that doctors can take countermeasures.

At home, you can help your child measure jaundice by visual observation or percutaneous bile measurement. Many children will have jaundice after birth, most of them are physiological jaundice, and the level of jaundice will not be particularly high, therefore, when the newborn is at home, it can first be observed by the naked eye, that is, to see the child's ** color with the eyes, to help judge the changes in jaundice. If the jaundice gradually worsens or gradually decreases, it indicates that the jaundice is gradually worsening or decreasing.

Of course, visual observation is not particularly accurate, and it cannot be used as an accurate standard to judge whether a child has jaundice, or the degree of jaundice, so percutaneous bile testing can also be used. Parents may also need to rent a percutaneous cholemeter because it is relatively expensive and may not be able to afford it, so you can rent a percutaneous cholemeter. Transcutaneous bile measurement is a non-invasive measurement method, and it is also a colorimetric method, through a small instrument, which can more accurately determine how high the level of jaundice is.

The percutaneous bile test is not as accurate as the blood test, but the percutaneous bile test is still very accurate in judging the change trend of the child's jaundice, so you can also consider renting a percutaneous bile test to help us judge the level of jaundice in the child more accurately.

Newborns can be checked for jaundice, because most newborns will have jaundice after birth, their ** and the color of the sclera will appear yellow, because the child's neonatal jaundice is mostly physiological, and there is no need for special round source examination to observe whether the child's jaundice is aggravated. If the child's jaundice does not go away for a long time or the jaundice is more serious, it is necessary to check the jaundice examination, the most important thing is to check the level of bilirubin in the blood, which can be measured by percutaneous measurement or venous blood drawing. Bilirubin levels are divided into direct bilirubin and indirect bilirubin, and the combination of the two is called total bilirubin, and the cause of jaundice can be roughly judged based on the ratio characteristics of direct bilirubin and indirect bilirubin.

Generally, newborns will have jaundice after birth, and hospitals are equipped with jaundice testers, but some mothers feel that the values measured by those instruments are not very accurateIs the neonatal jaundice tester accurate?

Neonatal jaundice measuring instruments are generally more accurate. The normal value of neonatal jaundice is measured by serum bilirubin, which is normal as long as it does not exceed 204 mol l (12 mg dl) for term infants and 255 mol l (15 mg) for preterm infants.

In addition, children with physiological jaundice do not have much impact on appetite and mental health, except for ** yellow staining, and the symptoms will generally disappear automatically within a month. Children with pathological jaundice not only have ** changes, but also usually cry and fuss and refuse to milk, in this case, parents must take their children to the hospital as soon as possible to receive **, otherwise it may cause kernicterus, and the consequences are very serious.

Neonatal jaundice is one of the common symptoms of the neonatal period, especially in newborns within a week, which can be both a physiological phenomenon and the main manifestation of a variety of diseases. When bilirubin is severely elevated or not very high, but there are high-risk factors such as hypoxia, acidosis, and infection, it can cause bilirubin encephalopathy, with high mortality, and most survivors have long-term neurological sequelae. Therefore, it is necessary to correctly judge the nature of jaundice in a timely manner, early diagnosis and early **.

Generally, neonatal jaundice is physiological, 7-10 days after birth will slowly recede, if it is not completely clean, you can use a little yellowing powder, generally it will be clean, if it has been very yellow with a clump file, more and more serious, you must go to the hospital to take blue light. Adults can press the baby** to observe the color, or observe the color of the white eyeball to judge the jaundice, or go to the hospital to test the jaundice value with a special instrument.

Usually, you can give your baby more water and bask in the sun. If it is more than two weeks, it is necessary to pay attention to it, and you need to go to the hospital to rule out the possibility of pathological jaundice. The hospital's best method is to take blue light.

You can boil "corn must know the chaos", brass powder, (yellow) gardenia water (in some places use "yellow fruit branches and leaves" to boil water) bath, wash your face, wash your eyes to get rid of jaundice, and drink the "Xihuangcao" powder to protect the liver in the future can reduce "blood bilirubin".

If it is not "pathological" jaundice, there is no need not to expose to blue light.

An important part of the prevention of severe hyperbilirubinemia is postnatal monitoring for jaundice and effective follow-up after discharge, and most hospitals are able to routinely monitor jaundice for babies born in hospitals. At present, cases of severe hyperbilirubinemia are often found to be timely and effective follow-up after discharge, in the current situation that most parents lack awareness and knowledge of neonatal jaundice, Zheng instructed medical institutions at all levels to carry out neonatal jaundice knowledge education, popularize jaundice related common sense, such as how to distinguish the severity of jaundice, to what extent to which need to go to the hospital for follow-up and so on.

Severe neonatal hyperbilirubinemia and the resulting kernicterus and neurological sequelae are largely preventable if jaundice monitoring and follow-up are done well.