How parents can prevent jaundice in newborns

Newborn babies are prone to jaundice, and many times babies can recover on their own, but some jaundice needs to be treated, so what are the types of neonatal jaundice? What can parents do to prevent this?

Infant health care is a very important topic at present, especially now parents are very interested in the physical health of infants and young children, neonatal jaundice is a very common disease, since you have neonatal jaundice, you need to do a comprehensive prevention, so how to prevent it, in fact, parents want to prevent there are many ways, a brief introduction.

How to prevent diseases in newborns? What is neonatal jaundice and how to prevent it, we can observe the degree of yellowing of newborns' skin under natural light, if it is only facial jaundice for mild yellowing; The trunk is lifted by pressing the skin with fingers to observe the yellowing of the skin, and the yellowing of the skin on the trunk is moderately yellowing; Observe the limbs and hands and feet in the same way, if there is also yellow staining, it is severe yellow staining, and you should go to the hospital for examination and treatment in time. Let's take a look at what neonatal jaundice is and how to prevent it.

Physiological jaundice in newborns can resolve on its own, but pathological jaundice is a group of diseases composed of many causes that must be detected and treated as early as possible. Several common causes of jaundice are: hemolytic jaundice, infectious jaundice, obstructive jaundice, breast milk jaundice, etc., newborns with severe jaundice should be alert to the occurrence of kernicterus, especially immature infants, the younger the age of the month, the higher the incidence, generally within 12-48 hours after the occurrence of heavy jaundice, malaise, drowsiness, sucking weakness, hypotonia, vomiting, not feeding and other symptoms, at this time, if treated in time, can be fully recovered.

Pathological jaundice, regardless of the cause, can cause "kernicterus" in severe cases, and its prognosis is poor, in addition to causing nervous system damage, severe can cause death. Therefore, the prevention of pathological jaundice in newborns should be emphasized, such as preventing infection of toxoplasma gondii and rubella virus during pregnancy, especially in the first trimester; prevent the onset of sepsis after birth; Newborns are vaccinated against hepatitis B at birth, etc. Parents should closely observe the changes of their children's jaundice, and if there are signs of pathological jaundice, they should be sent to the hospital for diagnosis and treatment in time.

Neonatal jaundice is divided into physiological and pathological:

Physiological jaundice refers to the appearance of full-term infants in 2~3 days after birth, reaching a peak in 4~6 days, and subsiding in 7~10 days;prematurePhysiological jaundice appears earlier, is higher, and lasts longer, and can be delayed to resolve for 3 to 4 weeks. Although there is jaundice, in general, physiological jaundice jaundice jaundice is relatively mild, and the concentration of bilirubin in the blood is low, which will not affect the intelligence of children.The child has no discomfort, it is a normal physiological phenomenon, and no treatment is required. But parents should also be careful to keep a close watch.

Pathological jaundice refers to the jaundice that occurs 24 hours after birth in full-term infants, does not subside for 2~3 weeks, or even continues to deepen and aggravate or recur after subsidence, or jaundice begins to appear within a week to several weeks after birth, all of which are pathological jaundice. Because pathological neonatal jaundice may cause other diseases if not treated in time, parents should pay more attention to the above symptoms and send the baby to the hospital for observation in time.