What happens if I get a vaccination for jaundice?

Neonatal jaundice is a very common disease. Almost every newborn will encounter this situation. The most important thing is how parents should deal with it. In most cases, parents are able to find the right method to help it subside. Some parents think that since jaundice is a common disease, can we still get vaccinations when we have jaundice?

No, you have to wait until the jaundice subsides before you can get the vaccine. As long as the baby still has jaundice, you cannot get the vaccination. Normally, you should let your baby drink more warm water and take him out to bask in the sun more often. If the effect is not obvious, you can go to the pharmacy to buy Uncaria rhynchophylla tea for your baby.

Normally you cannot get the hepatitis B vaccine if you have jaundice. You can only get the vaccine if the jaundice value is below 5. The epidemic prevention department should have known about it when you got the injection, and they must have known that your condition was suitable for the vaccine, so don't worry. It's best to go to the hospital for a thorough check-up now.

Jaundice is generally divided into physiological jaundice and pathological jaundice. As long as it exceeds the scope of physiological jaundice, it is called pathological jaundice.

1. Physiological jaundice: Usually, the skin of a newborn baby is a little yellow, which can be seen with the naked eye two days after birth. It reaches its peak at 3 to 5 days and will mostly disappear at 7 to 10 days. At this time, the jaundice index (serum bilirubin value) generally does not exceed 15 mg/dL, which is within the normal range.

2. Pathological jaundice: There are many causes of pathological jaundice, and the standards for full-term infants and premature infants are different. If the mother finds the following conditions, she should send the baby to the hospital for observation.

1. If jaundice is found in a newborn within 24 hours after birth, it is called "early jaundice".

2. The jaundice index rises too high all of a sudden, increasing by more than 5 mg/dL a day. This is a common type of jaundice (the blood types of the mother and baby are incompatible).

3. The jaundice index is too high, at 15mg/dL.

4. It lasts too long. Generally, physiological jaundice lasts for 7 to 10 days. If it lasts for more than two weeks, you should pay attention.

There is no need to interrupt breastfeeding due to jaundice: If various tests confirm that jaundice is caused by breastfeeding, there is no need to interrupt breastfeeding, unless the index is high enough to require blood transfusion. In this case, breastfeeding can be temporarily stopped for two days and then resumed after the jaundice subsides.

Jaundice is caused by elevated levels of bilirubin in the body. Because newborns don't need so many red blood cells. The metabolic product of destroyed red blood cells is bilirubin. If the bilirubin is too high, that is, "hyperbilirubinemia", it will cause jaundice. Generally, bilirubin is divided into direct and indirect types. Direct bilirubin is mainly a problem with the liver and bile duct; indirect jaundice is caused by excessive destruction of red blood cells, which makes the bilirubin too high, which may cause nuclear jaundice in the brain, so you need to pay attention to both.

Since jaundice is pathological if it exceeds the range of physiological jaundice, it is very important to observe the baby after discharge from the hospital. First of all, before the mother is discharged from the hospital, she must first understand which part of the baby's body has yellow skin, and then observe whether there are any changes after returning home. If the skin becomes more and more yellow and more and more areas are yellow, there must be a problem. If the yellow area gradually fades, there may be no need to worry.