How to tell if jaundice is high

Newborn jaundice is a normal physiological phenomenon. If it does not subside, you should pay attention to the possibility of disease. If parents observe carefully, they will find that the baby's face turns yellow, which will disappear after about ten days. This means that the jaundice has disappeared. However, if the jaundice value is relatively high, you should pay special attention, but how do you know whether the jaundice is high? The best way is of course to go to the hospital for a check-up. If the blood sugar level is too high, you need to be hospitalized for treatment.

Due to changes in the social environment, the mother's diet during pregnancy, the nutrition the baby gets in the mother's body and other reasons, every child will have varying degrees of jaundice within a few days after birth, but some are mild and some are severe. Mild cases will gradually subside as the child drinks more milk, but severe cases are not certain, and some may still have severe jaundice when they are one month old.

My child was found to have jaundice on the third day after birth. It seemed to be getting better on the fourth and fifth days. When he was discharged from the hospital on the eighth day, I did not ask the doctor to measure the jaundice level again, thinking that it would gradually subside. After returning home, I fed the child as much milk and water as possible, but the condition did not improve. On the twentieth day, the face, whites of the eyes, the skin around the eyes, and the body were still visibly yellow. Finally, I decided to take the child to the hospital for a check-up. When the results were checked, the jaundice value reached over 12 points. The doctor asked to be hospitalized for treatment, fearing that the child was too young and would suffer too much. However, the doctor said that if the condition became more serious, it would cause liver and kidney diseases. There was no choice but to reluctantly let the child be hospitalized. He was discharged from the hospital and went home after he returned to normal eight days later.

So, is there any professional method to determine whether the child's jaundice level is high? In fact, if you want to know the condition of your child's jaundice, you can start from the following aspects.

1. Observe the degree of yellowing of the child's skin under natural light. If only the face is yellowed, it is mild yellowing;

2. If the skin on your body is yellowish, it is moderate yellowing;

3. If limbs and palms and soles of feet also appear yellow, it is severe jaundice and you should go to the hospital for examination and treatment in time. In fact, physiological jaundice can disappear on its own, but pathological jaundice requires treatment. For pathological jaundice, the younger the child is, the higher the incidence rate. Children with severe jaundice will show symptoms such as poor spirits, love to sleep, vomiting, and not eating milk. If discovered and treated in time, they can fully recover.

In short, although it is normal for newborn babies to have jaundice, and every child will have it, the severity of jaundice determines the healthy development of the child. Therefore, parents must pay attention to the jaundice of their newborn babies. If it disappears naturally after three to five days, it is physiological. If the symptoms do not subside in time, and the child also shows some corresponding symptoms such as loving to sleep and not wanting to eat, then you should take it seriously. This is generally pathological and you should go to the hospital for treatment in time.