Medicine for jaundice in newborns

For mothers, the happiest and most painful moment is nothing more than childbirth, because in this case, mothers can see the appearance of the baby, and at the same time, their hearts are very happy. However, since the newborn has just come out of the amniotic fluid, it is not yet adapted to the external environment and will have many symptoms. Let us learn about the medicine for reducing jaundice in newborns!

1. Medicine for treating jaundice in newborns

1. Medicine for treating jaundice in newborns

Chinese medicine prescription

Prescription 1: 15g of Lysimachia chinensis, 6g of Gardenia jasminoides, 9g of Artemisia capillaris, 3g of Licorice root

Preparation and usage: decoction

Indications: Neonatal jaundice

Prescription 2: 20g each of Artemisia capillaris and Poria cocos, 15g each of Gardenia jasminoides and Atractylodes macrocephala, 5g of Akebia. Directions: Decoction in water. For patients with dry stool, remove Atractylodes macrocephala and add 5g of Rhubarb and 5g of Citrus aurantium; for patients with fever, irritability, and crimson tongue, add 20g of Rehmannia glutinosa, 15g each of Cortex Moutan and Paeonia lactiflora.

Indications: Neonatal jaundice with damp-heat syndrome

Prescription 3: 10g each of Coptis chinensis, Artemisia capillaris, and Poria cocos, 6g each of Phellodendron chinense, Scutellaria baicalensis, and Gardenia jasminoides. Preparation and usage: Grind into powder and mix with honey to make medicine cake. Stick it on your navel and use a hot water bottle to warm it.

Indications: persistent fetal jaundice, congenital deficiency, and deficiency of both Qi and blood.

What is neonatal jaundice?

Why are babies prone to jaundice after birth? What is neonatal jaundice? Neonatal jaundice refers to a disease characterized by yellowing of the skin, mucous membranes and sclera due to the accumulation of bilirubin in the newborn's body, which leads to increased bilirubin levels in the blood. It is generally divided into physiological jaundice and pathological jaundice.

After the baby is born, he must use his lungs to breathe directly to obtain oxygen. The low oxygen environment in the body is changed, and the demand for red blood cells is reduced. As a result, a large number of red blood cells originally in the newborn baby's body are destroyed and decomposed into unconjugated bilirubin. However, the liver function of newborns is imperfect and the enzyme system is immature. Glucuronyltransferase takes 3 to 5 days for full-term infants and 5 to 7 days for immature infants to mature. They cannot process and excrete excess bilirubin, so it can only accumulate in the blood. This bilirubin acts like a yellow dye, flowing through the blood and combining with the various bilirubin metabolic characteristics of newborns, dyeing the skin and sclera of newborns yellow, thus causing physiological jaundice of the newborn.