How long can neonatal pathological jaundice return?

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Three days after my son was born, his eyes and whole body began to turn yellow, and even his urine was yellow. After the doctor's examination, he said that this is neonatal physiological jaundice, which can subside without treatment. Although the child's eating and drinking are not affected, it's very anxious to see his yellow body. Let's take a look at the following.

How long can neonatal pathological jaundice return?

First, infant jaundice is caused by the accumulation of bilirubin in the body, which can be divided into physiological and pathological. Physiological infant jaundice is due to the characteristics of neonatal bilirubin metabolism, about 50% to 80% of premature infants have jaundice within two to three days after birth, and reach the peak in four to five days; Generally, term infants will subside within 2 weeks, and preterm infants can extend to 4 weeks.

Second, if jaundice occurs within 24 hours after birth, it may be pathological jaundice; Further examination is needed. Pathological jaundice lasts for a long time and is easy to recur; If pathological jaundice causes central nervous system damage, it will produce bilirubin encephalopathy, so we should strengthen the clinical observation of infant jaundice, find out the cause as soon as possible, and treat it in time.

Third: infant jaundice is a physiological phenomenon, will not affect the child's health and intelligence, but parents should also pay close attention to observe whether there is any abnormal situation, but appropriate feeding glucose water to help yellow.

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The main causes of pathological jaundice are infectious and non infectious. Infectious jaundice includes neonatal hepatitis and neonatal sepsis. Non infectious jaundice includes hemolytic disease of newborn, biliary atresia, breast milk jaundice, hereditary disease and drug jaundice.