How to determine breast milk jaundice?

Update Date: 2024-02-15 Source: Network

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Jaundice is a common disease, and breast-feeding jaundice refers to breast-feeding, better growth and development, excluding jaundice caused by other reasons. In addition to breast milk jaundice, there are other types of jaundice. Different types of jaundice have different treatment methods and precautions. How to determine breast milk jaundice? Next, I'd like to share my views with you.

How to determine breast milk jaundice?

It is necessary to differentiate jaundice caused by hemolysis and infection under the condition of normal liver function. At present, there is a lack of special laboratory testing methods to diagnose breast milk jaundice. We can only make a clinical diagnosis of breast milk jaundice by excluding the causes of neonatal jaundice, such as ABO blood group incompatibility, sepsis, asphyxia, congenital hypothyroidism, galactosemia and hereditary glucuronosyltransferase deficiency.

The diagnosis of neonatal jaundice can be confirmed when the bilirubin level drops 50% 48 hours after stopping breastfeeding. If breast-feeding is resumed, bilirubin will increase by 17-51umol / L (1-3mg / dl), but it will not reach the original high level.

Jaundice caused by breast milk generally appears skin and mucous membrane yellow staining 4-5 days after birth, without other abnormalities. Jaundice gradually aggravates, and unconjugated bilirubin can reach 171-513 in 10-15 days after birth μ mol/l（10-30mg/dl）。 If lactation continues, the increased bilirubin can last for 4-10 days, then slowly decrease, and return to normal level in 3-12 weeks, jaundice completely subsides. If the breast-feeding was stopped, the serum bilirubin could be decreased significantly within 48 hours.

matters needing attention

To eat less spicy food, such as wine, pepper, raw garlic, mutton, fish and shrimp and other seafood, in addition to eat cold food. For example, it's autumn, the peak season for hairy crabs, but hairy crabs are cold and cool. It's recommended not to eat them, so as not to aggravate baby's jaundice.