How to treat newborn jaundice in the sun

It is a common phenomenon that newborns have jaundice after birth. The reasons are multifaceted and generally have no impact, but we still need to pay attention to it. Generally, the child's jaundice will gradually subside. In fact, if the baby has jaundice, sunbathing is also a treatment method, but we need to bask in the sun correctly. Let's learn about how to bask in the sun for newborn jaundice?

Neonatal jaundice usually appears 2-3 days after birth, reaches its peak on the 4th to 7th day, and disappears within half a month unless there are special circumstances. This type of jaundice is a physiological phenomenon in the neonatal period and is called physiological jaundice. Generally speaking, physiological jaundice in newborns does not require special treatment and can be allowed to subside and disappear naturally.

However, for a small number of newborns, jaundice progresses too quickly, lasts too long, or the serum bilirubin value exceeds the physiological range. We must pay attention to finding the cause and treat it as pathological jaundice for causal and symptomatic treatment.

Medication is not the only method for symptomatic treatment of neonatal jaundice. The simplest non-drug method is sunbathing. Sunbathing utilizes the ultraviolet rays of sunlight to promote the excretion of unconjugated bilirubin, thereby helping to reduce jaundice. In addition, sunbathing can convert 7-dehydrocholesterol in the skin of newborns into vitamin D, which is beneficial to promote calcium utilization.

The method of sunbathing is very simple. When there is sunlight but the light is not too strong, there is no strong wind, and it is not too cold, open the window 1-2 times a day for half an hour to one hour each time. While keeping warm, expose the newborn's skin to the sun.

In some places in our country, there is a custom of not opening windows during the period of postpartum confinement. In this regard, we should strengthen the publicity and education of scientific parenting knowledge, overcome bad customs, open windows appropriately for ventilation every day, maintain air circulation in the room, and let the baby get a sunbath, which can reduce jaundice and promote growth and development.

Through the above introduction, we now know how to sunbathe newborns with jaundice. However, generally speaking, windows will not be opened during the confinement period due to various reasons. In fact, many methods of confinement are unscientific. We should proceed according to our own situation in normal times, especially paying attention to the jaundice of children.