How to manage neonatal jaundice is more effective

1. Basking in the sun: If conditions permit, you can take your baby to bask in the sun, ultraviolet rays are very helpful for the treatment of jaundice, and the time of basking in the sun must be controlled. At the same time, protect your baby's eyes so as not to burn them.

2. More excretion: The mother can intentionally increase the number of feedings and promote the baby's stool discharge through more feeding, which is conducive to faster excretion of bilirubin.

If it does not improve with the above methods, then it is necessary to consider whether it is pathological jaundice. Jaundice can lead to serious consequences, so in order to reduce the guilt of the baby, it is better to go to the hospital immediately.

The difference between physiological jaundice and pathological jaundice in children

(1) Physiological jaundice: Physiological jaundice is present in almost every newborn, with a certain limit, and the skin is not orange, but light yellow. The whites of the eyes are slightly yellow, the oral mucosa is yellowish, and the palms and soles of the feet are not yellow. Generally, the degree of jaundice peaks in 4-5 days and gradually disappears in about 10 days.

(2) Pathological jaundice: newborns can appear within 24 hours after birth, and it lasts for a long time, and some children will have recurrence. Pathologic jaundice is dark orange-yellow and spreads throughout the body. The child has poor sleep, poor spirits, restlessness, crying, etc. When jaundice is severe, kernicterus will occur, which can damage the child's brain, and parents should pay close attention to it.

What causes jaundice in children causes high jaundice in newborns

(1) Newborns have too many red blood cells in the body, and too much bilirubin is produced after the red blood cells are destroyed, and bilirubin is the direct cause of jaundice, so newborns will have high jaundice.

(2) The metabolism of bilirubin requires the participation of liver enzymes in the liver, and the liver function of newborns is not very perfect, so it leads to insufficient liver enzyme secretion, which makes bilirubin excreted untimely, resulting in high jaundice.

(3) The excretion of bilirubin requires the participation of the biliary tract, and the biliary function of newborns is not perfect, so the accumulation of bilirubin in the body cannot be discharged in time, resulting in high bilirubin, resulting in high jaundice.

(4) Bilirubin can be excreted from the stool, but the meconium of newborns is relatively viscous, resulting in the discharge of bilirubin is not very smooth, which makes the bilirubin in the newborn too high, resulting in high jaundice.

(5) Mother-child blood group incompatibility will also lead to the accumulation of bilirubin in the neonatal body can not be discharged, and pathological jaundice may be caused by neonatal diseases, such as neonatal asphyxia, premature birth, infection and other factors can lead to neonatal jaundice.

(6) Breastfeeding can also lead to the accumulation of bilirubin in the newborn's body, resulting in high jaundice in the newborn.