Why is the white of the baby's eyes yellow?

Yellowing of the whites of the baby's eyes is a disease that poses a great threat to our baby's eyes. This may be a symptom before the onset of a certain eye disease. Our mothers need to pay great attention to this phenomenon and must not ignore this problem. Maybe everyone does not have a clear understanding of what is going on and why the whites of the baby's eyes are yellowing. Let us now understand what is going on and why the whites of the baby's eyes are yellowing.

1. Causes of disease

1. Hemolytic jaundice Any disease that can cause massive destruction of red blood cells and produce hemolysis can cause hemolytic jaundice. Common diseases fall into two categories.

(1) Congenital hemolytic anemia: such as thalassemia (hemoglobinopathy) and hereditary spherocytosis.

(2) Acquired hemolytic anemia: such as autoimmune hemolytic anemia, hereditary glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency (favism), hemolytic anemia after heterotypic blood transfusion, neonatal hemolytic anemia, malignant malaria, primaquine and other drugs, snake venom, mushroom poisoning, paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria, etc.

2. Hepatocellular jaundice Various liver diseases, such as viral hepatitis, toxic hepatitis, drug-induced liver disease, various types of cirrhosis, primary and secondary liver cancer, sepsis and leptospirosis, can cause jaundice due to diffuse damage to liver cells.

3. Obstructive jaundice (cholestatic jaundice) can be divided into two categories according to the site of obstruction: extrahepatic bile duct obstruction and intrahepatic bile duct obstruction.

(1) Common diseases that cause extrahepatic bile duct obstruction include common bile duct stones, stenosis, inflammatory edema, ascariasis, tumors, and congenital biliary atresia. Common diseases or causes that cause extrahepatic compression and lead to common bile duct obstruction include pancreatic head cancer, chronic pancreatitis with enlarged pancreatic head, ampulla of Vater cancer, common bile duct cancer, liver cancer, and enlarged lymph nodes in the porta hepatis or around the common bile duct (cancer metastasis).

(2) Intrahepatic bile duct obstruction can be divided into intrahepatic obstructive cholestasis and intrahepatic cholestasis. The former is common in intrahepatic bile duct sludge stones, cancer thrombi (mostly liver cancer), Clonorchiasis, etc.; the latter is common in capillary cholangiocarcinoma viral hepatitis, drug-induced cholestasis (such as chlorpromazine, methyltestosterone, oral contraceptives, etc.), bacterial sepsis, recurrent jaundice during pregnancy, primary biliary cirrhosis and a few cases after heart or abdominal surgery.

The above content introduces to us what is going on and why the whites of the baby's eyes turn yellow. I believe that everyone has a clearer understanding of the treatment methods for this type of disease. This situation can be treated well with the above methods, which can effectively help us recover our health as quickly as possible and live a healthy life.