Learn about the disease of jaundice in infants

Jaundice symptoms appear is due to the destruction of the red blood soon soon after birth. This destruction process creates excess condition pigment bilirubin in the blood and this has led to skin pigment newborn baby were tinged with yellow gold. Symptoms of jaundice in newborns will lose when the liver, help little baby has the ability to export article bilirubin fast enough to balance this component in the blood. The time of complete liver usually after baby is about 1 week to 10 days old. Parents need to carefully observe the view of child jaundice phenomenon is physiological or pathological.

Usually in the vast majority of infants, symptoms of jaundice do not need treatment and naturally they will disappear within a week after appearing. However, when the parents noticed being jaundice in babies is not a common phenomenon that brought color pathology should go check the bilirubin levels to the child by blood tests. If a child has jaundice disease then treatment method is also very simple. Medicine currently applying our methods (i.e. light therapy) to cure jaundice disease in children. This method of treating jaundice in babies by shining ultraviolet light within about 12 hours.

In addition to excess bilirubin pigment in young lead to physiological jaundice, a yellowing of the skin also cause more causes for children, which is blood group incompatibility between mother and baby. Known medical condition is the Rhesus blood group, Rhesus-negative blood has a mother that is, while the back is Rhesus positive. If symptoms of jaundice of the child that the Rhesus blood group causes it to this quite serious because it usually is diagnosed before birth and appropriate intervention.

Besides the two above, causes jaundice in older children may also be due to other causes such as hepatitis and bile duct stenosis (English is biliary atresia)-this is a rare disease that a particular situation is developing deflected bile duct than normal bile duct.

Jaundice may also be caused by bacterial infection, the most common in newborns are umbilical infections, skin infections. With this case of jaundice may appear soon, or late.

Jaundice due to the mother getting syphilis. With this type of jaundice disease usually mild but this lasted, with livers, spleen to.

Gold Leather tan blood due to disagreement factor Rh. Disease occurs when the mother has Rh factor (-), and his father has Rh factor (+), children born with Rh (+).

In General, the disease jaundice in babies can be due to many causes. Ask for a parent's need to observe carefully to see the phenomenon of child jaundice is physiological or pathological.

How to detect jaundice?

Parents should monitor the jaundice in babies under sunlight. Press on the forehead, face, chest, abdomen, navel, thighs, below the navel on, legs, feet, hands, ... of children to identify children with jaundice. Some baby red skin will be hard to find, so when click to see leave the skin below the yellow spot. Here is how to tell the easiest yellow that parents may note to follow the child.

Jaundice is divided into 2 levels:

-Lightweight: Gold skin in face, myself; older still suck good

-Weight: dark gold Skin, hands down, legs spread; older suck less, quit feeding; or jaundice appears early, in the first round 1-2 days after birth. The premature babies, birth asphyxia, infection prone to jaundice.

What to do when a child has jaundice?

For mild cases, can be treated at home by the way. Latest young near the window, where the soothing sunshine of the Sun (about 8-8 h 30 m ỗi, at Sun not too hot or too cold). Feeding several times a day because breast milk help removing Bilirubin substance quickly through the digestive tract. Need to track the progress of jaundice every day within 7-10 days after birth.

Children with severe jaundice should be hospitalized to be treated aggressively by the following methods:

-Projector lamp: the lamp's light turn Bilirubin into nontoxic substances and was fast waste out of the body through the gastrointestinal tract, the bladder.

-Blood: take the substance Bilirubin from the body quickly.

Pathological jaundice is not detected and treated promptly will young brain complications, causes the human brain gold. This phenomenon without proper treatment, the way is easy that leads to lifelong brain child, the child will be even reduced hearing, deafness or decreased vision.=