Jaundice in newborns 🤱
Many children after birth notice yellowing of the skin How do we act, what do we do, how do we treat it, and pay attention to the signs of danger 🤔
✍️ First, there are two types of yellow: physiological jaundice and pathological jaundice
✍️ Physiological jaundice usually appears on the second or third day. You will find that the child’s eyes begin to yellow, and then it may increase even to the skin of the chest, abdomen and extremities.
What should we do?
✍️The first thing we need to reassure is by measuring the percentage of bile, and initially we measure it through the skin, and if it is high, it is possible at that time to ask for a blood test to confirm according to each case 👌👌
The most important and best way to keep the jaundice rate from increasing is breastfeeding.
Breastfeeding from the first hour of the baby’s birth is very important and helps the body excrete bile 🙏🙏
Lack of breastfeeding is often one of the reasons for high jaundice Ok, when many mothers come to ask whether the jaundice rate is high or good and will he need to be booked into the nursery or not? In order to simplify the matter This depends on many factors, first of all
First, the child’s weight is an important factor. Is it 2.5 kg or less? . .
Premature or full-grown baby? . .
Are there any other disturbing symptoms in the child?
Zero, as a number in itself, must be put on a special curve, and each case is different depending on age and whether this percentage is on the first day or after that. All of these factors make a difference in the treatment of jaundice
When it reaches a certain point, the jaundice may need phototherapy, and this requires the child to be admitted to the NICU, while breastfeeding continues, of course, because it helps in its descent, as we agreed 🙏
What is pathological jaundice or destructive jaundice?
👈 This is what we find in which the bile is high or increases at a rapid rate in the first days of the child’s life, and one of the most important causes of it is that we see in cases where the mother is type O and the child is A, B, or AB, for example.
Or her rhesus factor (RH) is negative and the child is positive, so there is an excessive breakdown of red blood cells, and thus the percentage of bile in the blood increases. 👈 In this case, we must take care and follow the percentage well and notice if the child remains excessively lethargic or does not breastfeed well and the percentage of jaundice increases, then it must be examined well because many times the child may need to be placed in a NICU and intensive light therapy from the beginning.
Children, it is very important that we take care of their high jaundice 👇
👈 The baby has high bile in the first 24 hours of birth But when the bile decreases, it disappears from the bottom up, meaning that the yellowing of the eye may last a little longer because it is the last thing the bile will leave after its percentage in the blood decreases. Don’t worry because this is normal as long as the analysis is good and the yellowing of the eyes will go away gradually 👌 The level of bile can be monitored through the skin