How to treat jaundice by sunbathing

Jaundice is a very serious disease. If you have neonatal jaundice, you must receive timely treatment. Currently, neonatal jaundice is a very common disease. In fact, sunbathing can help relieve the symptoms of jaundice. How to sunbathe for jaundice? When treating neonatal jaundice, you must target the patient's condition. However, certain methods are also required when sunbathing. What should you do when sunbathing? Let me give you a brief introduction.

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.

How to sunbathe for jaundice? In fact, there are certain methods to follow when sunbathing, and you need to pay attention to the skills of sunbathing. It is not enough to just sunbathe casually. In fact, jaundice is a disease that cannot be cured simply by sunbathing. It can be cured through regular sunbathing, but you must pay attention to the time control of sunbathing.