What symptom can darling jaundice have seriously

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In fact, we don't know what causes jaundice in our daily life. Most babies are born with jaundice. There are many treatments for this disease. How can we judge the severity of jaundice? Next, as a pediatrician, I would like to share my experience with you.

What symptom can darling jaundice have seriously

First: to determine whether the baby has jaundice. See if the baby's sclera is yellow (the white eye between the black eye and the outer corner of the eye). This area is yellow, indicating that the child has jaundice.

Second: look at the severity of jaundice. Jaundice is generally divided into mild, moderate and severe three, if the baby only face skin yellow, other parts of the skin is not yellow, then the baby jaundice grade is mild. If the baby's chest and abdomen skin and limbs above the elbow and knee joint skin yellow, the baby is in the stage of moderate jaundice.

Third: severe jaundice refers to the baby's whole body skin yellowing, affecting the palm and foot, at this time, jaundice is more serious, very easy to appear bilirubin encephalopathy, if not treated in time, there may be different degrees of neurological sequelae.

matters needing attention

1: Observe whether the baby's skin yellowing method: the index finger and thumb pinch up the baby's skin and relax, if you see a yellow mark, it means that the skin is yellowing, serious cases can directly see the skin yellowing with the naked eye. : 2: the degree of skin yellowing and the baby's symptoms together determine the severity of the disease. If the baby has poor spirit, poor feeding, sleepiness and other conditions, no matter the jaundice degree is mild or moderate, the disease is severe and needs timely intervention and treatment.