Neonatal breast milk jaundice how to do?

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Jaundice is one of the most common diseases of newborn, especially the newborn, it is easy to appear the phenomenon of high jaundice. Neonatal jaundice may be a physiological phenomenon, or it may be the manifestation of a variety of diseases. If it is the occurrence of high jaundice, it can generally subside by itself, but if it is the disease of jaundice, it can appear within 24 hours of birth, And jaundice is more serious, the progress is very fast, slow and can't retreat, or retreated and reappeared, some babies even lasted 2-3 months, the following is to share with the mothers how to do the problem of neonatal jaundice.

Neonatal breast milk jaundice how to do?

First: physiological jaundice, also known as breast milk jaundice, is generally 3-4 days after birth slowly add ya, to the 10th-16th day jaundice will reach the peak period, but will not cause bilirubin encephalopathy, if has been feeding, jaundice will continue for a week, left and right will be born slowly, about 3-12 weeks to return to normal. In fact, the method to identify breast-feeding jaundice is very simple, stop feeding breast milk for 2-4 days, half of skin jaundice subsided, if again feeding, skin jaundice again.

Second: once confirmed as breast-feeding jaundice, the mother does not need to panic, usually without special treatment, do not stop breastfeeding. In order to prevent slight brain damage caused by galactic jaundice, we can reduce the frequency of breast-feeding at the peak of jaundice, suspend breast-feeding for 2-3 days if necessary, and give formula milk feeding, and then resume breast-feeding when the serum bilirubin value drops to a safe range

Third: once the newborn found pathological jaundice should be treated as soon as possible. At present, the most effective method is to let the children sleep naked in the incubator and change the structure of bilirubin in the blood by light irradiation, so as to promote it to become a substance harmless to nerve tissue and excrete it out of the body. At the same time, it can be combined with drug therapy, such as intravenous glucose, albumin, oral or intramuscular injection of phenobarbital to accelerate the metabolism and excretion of bilirubin. Very severe children need to use exchange transfusion therapy.

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At the same time, it should be reminded that many parents think that taking sugar water to jaundice baby can treat jaundice symptoms of baby. In fact, this is a misunderstanding, because feeding too much sugar water to baby will make his digestive tract full of glucose, which will make the baby have no appetite for milk, reduce the frequency and amount of milk, thus affecting the excretion of bilirubin and aggravating jaundice symptoms