Is high bile content in children harmful? Parents beware!

Newborns often have some physiological problems. For example, jaundice and high blood sugar are symptoms that require careful observation. Many children have a high probability of jaundice, and almost more than half of newborns will have symptoms of jaundice. So, is it harmful for children to have high jaundice? What are the dangers? Let’s take a look at the brief introduction below.

1. Normal newborns will develop jaundice 2-3 days after birth. It manifests as mild yellowing of the face, trunk and limbs, which disappears within a week. This is physiological jaundice, which can heal itself without treatment. Some jaundice is very mild and may not even be visible without careful observation. Some jaundice is very deep and lasts for a long time, ranging from half a month to more than twenty days, showing the phenomenon of retained jaundice. It is more common in premature infants, newborns with cephalohematoma, and newborns with a history of asphyxia. But as long as the baby is eating well, has normal spirit, has normal urination and defecation, and the jaundice is gradually fading, this is also within the range of physiological jaundice and there is no need to panic.

2. If the child has jaundice at birth and the jaundice quickly deepens, the oral and lip mucosa are very pale, and the breathing and heartbeat are extremely rapid, this is neonatal hemolytic disease caused by incompatibility of the mother and child's blood. The child needs to be rushed to the hospital for emergency treatment. Jaundice appears one week or several weeks after birth, and deepens progressively or intermittently, accompanied by fever, grayish complexion, refusal to eat, nausea, vomiting and other poisoning symptoms. There may be a bacterial infection in a part of the body, resulting in neonatal sepsis.

3. There is no jaundice at birth, but jaundice appears 1-2 weeks after birth or longer, and progressively deepens. The baby is still feeding well, and the stool is still light yellow in the first few days after birth. However, as the jaundice deepens, the stool gradually turns white and clay-like. This is a kind of obstructive jaundice. The patient needs to be sent to the hospital for detailed examination, as he may have congenital biliary atresia.

4. If the jaundice of the newborn is very deep and persists, and there are neurological symptoms such as drowsiness, weak sucking, muscle paralysis, etc., as the disease progresses, there are symptoms such as screaming, staring, increased muscle tone, convulsions, vomiting, etc. This is because the bilirubin in the blood has entered the brain, combined with the brain tissue, and seriously damaged the brain nerves. Severe cases may develop dementia.