Delayed treatment of neonatal jaundice

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Jaundice is a common thing in the neonatal period, many babies will appear this phenomenon, and generally the jaundice of the baby is physiological, but there are also many pathological jaundice. Pediatric experts remind that neonatal jaundice often has many pathological factors, once the delay in treatment, may cause bilirubin encephalopathy, resulting in mental retardation, cerebral palsy and other lifelong disabilities. Delayed treatment of neonatal jaundice has unimaginable consequences.

Delayed treatment of neonatal jaundice

First: neonatal jaundice improper handling, be careful of baby deafness "jaundice, is the skin appears yellow phenomenon, some of which are physiological, some are pathological, can't just rely on experience that is physiological and don't go to the hospital to check, delay treatment will affect the child's development, even life-threatening!" Experts and professors said that many reasons may cause neonatal jaundice, such as breast milk jaundice, hemolytic jaundice, neonatal hepatitis, congenital biliary atresia, congenital lack of enzymes and so on. These are factors that need parents to be highly prepared.

Second: how to judge your baby's jaundice from the estimated jaundice degree of the skin yellow spot? Experts said that in natural light, to observe the degree of neonatal skin yellow dye, if only the face yellow dye is mild yellow dye, trunk skin yellow dye is moderate yellow dye, if the limbs and hands and feet also appear yellow dye, that is severe yellow dye, should be timely to the hospital for examination and treatment. However, the above judgment method is more subjective. It is suggested that parents should see a doctor as soon as they feel that the baby's skin is yellow. Most physiological jaundice does not need treatment, if it is pathological jaundice will be treated. Phototherapy is considered to be a very safe and effective method, that is to let the baby undress and lie in the crib (eyes need to be covered) under the blue fluorescent light. Ultraviolet light turns bilirubin into something that's easier to get out of your baby's urine. If the baby's jaundice is more serious, or the bilirubin level continues to rise after light therapy, further treatment is needed.

Third: the prevention of baby jaundice from the mother's pregnancy, neonatal pathological jaundice should focus on prevention, such as pregnancy to prevent Toxoplasma gondii, rubella virus infection, especially in early pregnancy to prevent the occurrence of virus infection; the baby after birth to prevent the occurrence of sepsis; the baby was born with hepatitis B vaccine. In addition, to feed the baby as soon as possible, so that the early discharge of fetal stool, because fetal stool contains a lot of bile flavin, because if the fetal stool is not clean, bile flavin will be absorbed into the blood through the baby's special hepatointestinal circulation, so that jaundice increases. As long as you see that the tire changes from black to yellow, it will be completely drained. In addition, to give the baby enough water, normal baby should have 6-8 times a day. 　

matters needing attention

Neonatal jaundice is a common phenomenon, which is usually caused by physiological factors and can subside without treatment, but there are also some factors that can cause pathological jaundice, which requires careful observation by parents and timely solution after finding abnormalities, so as to avoid damage to the baby's health.