Can neonatal jaundice still exist after 5 days?

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After the baby is born, it needs careful care. From the newborn to the baby, it is also the time when the baby's resistance is the worst. Whether it's breast-feeding or breast-feeding, the healthy diet needs the mother's careful care. Parenting is a great knowledge. How to keep the baby smart, lovely and healthy? Will the newborn jaundice after 5 days? Let's talk about it

Can neonatal jaundice still exist after 5 days?

Usually, two days after birth, the newborn can see that the skin is a little yellow with naked eyes. It reaches the peak in 3-5 days, and most of it will disappear in 7-10 days. At this time, the jaundice index (serum bilirubin value) generally does not exceed 15mg / dl, which belongs to the normal range.

The degree of jaundice is generally not deep, skin color is light yellow, jaundice is often limited to the face and upper body, jaundice when the child's general condition is good, body temperature is normal, appetite is normal, the color of urine and stool is normal, growth and development is normal. Serum bilirubin was more than 2 mg / dl, but less than 12 mg / D1.

The normal value of jaundice in term infants is different from that in premature infants. Usually, the normal value of full-term neonatal jaundice is 12.9 mg / 100 ml, that is, the bilirubin level in 100 ml blood is lower than 12.9 mg. Jaundice normal value of premature infants 15 mg / 100 ml of blood, that is, 100 ml of blood bilirubin levels below 15 mg.

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Phototherapy is an adjuvant therapy for neonatal hyperbilirubinemia by fluorescent lamp irradiation. Phototherapy usually relieves neonatal jaundice because ultraviolet light turns bilirubin into something that's easier to get out of the baby's urine.