Jaundice to your baby
November 13, 2008
Jaundice is one amongst the serious diseases the human beings face. The more serious can be when it is the case of your little baby. How much illogic this may sound, but the truth is that this jaundice to your baby is common and can be treated easily and successfully. Somewhere around 60 percent of the newborns are prone to develop jaundice two to three days after the childbirth; and the baby recovers usually within one or two weeks.
Physiological jaundice
This type of jaundice occurring to the babies is generally known as physiological jaundice that necessarily distinguishes itself from the more serious types of jaundice. This physiological jaundice is like a physical condition likely to clear after a specific time period. Though, it requires proper care and must not be taken less seriously. The obvious symptoms of this illness are the yellow tinge to the skin and the whites of the eyes of the baby. When such symptoms are noticed they are meant to be reported to midwife or GP.
This happens because there forms a buildup of bilirubin which is a substance generated during the usual breakdown of old red blood cells. Such formation takes place because the liver of a newborn is not mature with all its functionality and may fail to process bilirubin enough necessarily or that much fast. So, the result is that this bilirubin gets deposited in the baby’s skin; and this deposit alters the skin color to be the yellow. There is nothing to clarify in this regard - the physiological jaundice is mostly harmless and gets well naturally. However, in few cases the babies need to undergo the phototherapy; this therapy requires the baby to be lying naked under a lamp specially designed for this purpose for one or two days, but with a proper protection of the eyes. So, do not get nervous if your newborn baby starts showing these symptoms.
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