What symptom does neonatal jaundice have?

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Neonatal jaundice is a very common situation, but parents see the baby's body yellow, inevitably worried about when it will return to normal? Will it affect your health? Hope to do the most appropriate prevention and treatment. Normal term babies, in the first week after birth, 60% will appear jaundice, premature babies have 80% will appear jaundice. Because the baby's liver function is not yet mature, mild jaundice, is a normal phenomenon, but parents still can not ignore, the severity of baby jaundice, and if the duration is too long, may affect the baby's health, we must be vigilant, careful observation. What symptom does neonatal jaundice have? Let's talk about it.

What symptom does neonatal jaundice have?

1. In mild cases, jaundice first appeared in the face and neck, then throughout the trunk and limbs, generally slightly yellow, sclera may be slightly yellow, but the palms and soles are not yellow, which subsided after 2-3 days, and the skin color returned to normal on 5-6 days; In severe cases, jaundice can also spread all over the body, vomit and cerebrospinal fluid can also be yellow stained for more than one week, especially in individual premature infants, which can last until the fourth week, with normal color of urine and stool and no bilirubin in urine. If the color of feces is very light or gray, and the color of urine is deep, it indicates neonatal hepatitis or biliary atresia.

2. Jaundice light color was light flower color, heavy color is deeper, but the skin is ruddy, yellow red. 3. Jaundice is more common in the face, neck, sclera, trunk and proximal extremities, but generally in the elbow and knee.

4. The newborn with physiological jaundice has good general condition, no anemia, no enlargement of liver and spleen, normal liver function and no nuclear jaundice. 5. Physiological jaundice in premature infants is more common than that in full-term infants, which can be slightly delayed for 1-2 days. Jaundice is more severe and subsides later, which can be delayed to 2-4 weeks.

matters needing attention

1. Blood diseases such as ABO blood group incompatibility, Rh blood group incompatibility, congenital hemolytic disease, etc. 2. Liver diseases such as congenital biliary atresia, congenital hepatitis, etc. 3. Infection leads to the decrease of liver function. 4. The production process leads to neonatal scalp congestion.