How much can jaundice index cause brain disease?

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60% of the children will have jaundice after birth, although jaundice is more common, but it can not be taken lightly, because if it is nuclear jaundice, it will affect the baby's brain, so how much jaundice index will cause brain lesions? What about it? Let's take a look at it.

How much can jaundice index cause brain disease?

First: the impact of jaundice value is to be combined with the baby's birth time and jaundice index to judge, if the baby is born within 24 hours of jaundice, waist timely diagnosis and treatment. Generally, the jaundice value of the newborn reaches the peak on the fourth to sixth day of birth. If the jaundice of the baby has not subsided after a week, it should also be considered as pathological jaundice, which may cause brain damage.

Second: physiological jaundice occurs two to three days after birth, and reaches its peak four to six days after birth. In this case, the normal value of neonatal jaundice is between 2mg / dl and 12mg / dl.

Third: in the above neonatal jaundice index above the highest value, that is, more than 12 mg / dl, or neonatal jaundice index rise too fast, daily rise more than 5 h / dl, the newborn may be suffering from rational jaundice.

matters needing attention

General jaundice, usually only need to light. The advantage of lighting is safe and cheap, and every hospital or doctor can do it; The disadvantage is that the speed of jaundice is slow, if the jaundice index is too high, it will be slow.