Will babies with biliary atresia fart?

The baby's health is the most important thing to ensure, and the baby's physical condition can be manifested through various phenomena. For example, a cold will cause the baby to cough, and what symptoms will the symptom of biliary atresia cause the baby to have? Some babies will fart continuously during biliary atresia. So, will babies with biliary atresia fart? Let’s take a look at the explanation below, I hope parents can understand it.

There is no specific association between biliary atresia and flatus. We should pay attention to the function of the liver and gallbladder and the child's diet digestion problems. If it's just frequent farting, it should be related to the baby's cold and diet digestion, and should not be related to the worsening of the disease.

Biliary atresia is a relatively serious disease and is likely to cause liver damage. If not treated in time, it may cause permanent damage to the liver and require a liver transplant.

The syndrome of biliary atresia and neonatal hepatitis represents an ongoing process rather than a specific entity. Both diseases usually present within the first 2 weeks of life with hyperbilirubinemia, jaundice, clay-like stools, and an enlarged liver. Slow growth, itchy skin, and symptoms of portal hypertension appear between 3 weeks and 2 years old.

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If biliary atresia is suspected, laparotomy should be performed within 2 months of life, because delayed surgery will lead to irreversible biliary cirrhosis. During the operation, cholangiography should be performed to understand the condition of the bile duct, and liver tissue should be biopsied and frozen sections should be taken to understand its morphological changes. Only 5% to 10% of children can successfully undergo biliary re-anastomosis, while the remaining children can often reconstruct the bile duct through the Kasai technique (hepatic portoenterostomy). However, many children still have obvious chronic diseases after surgery, including cholestasis, recurrent biliary inflammation and developmental delay, which leads to increased late mortality. For children with liver failure, liver transplantation saves liver function. Here, biliary atresia is the most common indication for liver transplantation in the pediatric field. Cholestasis caused by neonatal hepatitis is usually slow to treat, causing permanent liver damage, and some children die as a result.