Infant jaundice is a condition which shows up as a yellow hue to the whites of the infants eyes and a yellow cast to the skin starting on the baby's head and moving down to the toes.Jaundice occurs as a result of the breakdown of extra red blood cells associated with the transition form your fetus receiving oxygen from your placenta to supplying her/his own oxygen. Bilirubin is a by-product of this breakdown process, and when it is reabsorbed and circulates it tints the skin and eyes yellow.

If your infant was born jaundiced or jaundice occurred within the first 24 hours after birth, she may have jaundice related to blood incompatibility. If the mom and the baby have different blood types, the mom may start to produce antibodies that destroy the newborn's RBC. This causes sudden buildup of high levels of bilirubin that is evident within the first day of life. Should that happen, the infant will be placed under special lights (phototherapy) that will help her bilirubin levels decrease rapidly. Very rarely, when the levels of bilirubin do not decrease with desired speed, the baby may require a blood transfusion to prevent kernicterus.

Jaundice is an outcome of uprise, in the bloodline, of bilirubin, a yellow coloured pigment that comes out by the breakdown of aged RBCs. It is normal for the RBCs to collapse, while the bilirubin formed does not generally lawsuit jaundice Since the liver will metabolise them and thereby eliminate it inside the gut. Still, the newborn infant will frequently go jaundiced on the first a couple of days because of the enzymes from the liver that metabolises the bilirubin turning comparatively unripe. Hence, the newborn infant might hold numerous red blood corpuscles than that of adults, and so several will collapse at some given time.

When I had my first child, I was already determined to breastfeed my baby while I was pregnant, even though I didn't have the faintest idea how I would do it. Thank God I had a baby that could latch on easily, so that part was quite easy for me. However, she cried more frequently than the other bottle fed babies, and I had to ward off all the doctors' and nurses' persuasion to bottle feed my baby (they obviously were not happy that my breastfed baby was giving them more work compared to other bottle fed babies).

However, if the serum bilirubin levels rise too excessively, it may be because for due concern. Unconjugated bilirubin can penetrate the blood-brain barrier and is neurotoxic (toxic to the brain-neuro). It can cause death in newborns. Infants who survive would have lifelong neurologic sequelae. Increased levels of unconjugated-indirect bilirubin which is free (not bound to albumin) may cause kernicterus damage to the brain centers of those infants.Such conditions frequently warrants diagnostic evaluation to ensure that the neonatal jaundice does not turn fatal.

Jaundice is a yellow discoloration of the skin, the mucous membrane and the white of the eyes.All newborns have a certain degree of this condition. Jaundice is due to excessive serum bilirubin in the blood. Once he is born, a newborn baby starts to use his lungs to breathe.

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