Is it useful to stop breastfeeding when the baby has jaundice?

If your baby develops jaundice, it is best to stop breastfeeding. This way you can know whether your baby's jaundice is related to breast milk. If it is, you need to change to other milk powder for feeding. However, if taking relief measures such as stopping breastfeeding still has no effect, it means that it is physiological jaundice. In this way, you can continue to breastfeed your baby, which will not have any impact.

Get more sun exposure: As long as conditions permit, let your baby get more sun exposure. This is the best way to remove jaundice. (Don't expose your baby to the sun. In summer, cover your baby's eyes at 7 a.m. and 4 to 6 p.m. to avoid sunlight.) Note: Some parents are afraid that their baby is too young so they expose their baby to the sun through the glass windows on their balcony. This is ineffective because the glass windows will block the ultraviolet rays in the sun, which will have no effect on the baby.

For normal physiological jaundice, for babies who are exclusively breastfed, as long as they can eat, sleep, and defecate, have no fever, cry loudly, and have golden stools, there is no need for excessive intervention. It will disappear naturally within 2 weeks, so parents don’t need to worry.

If the jaundice value is higher than 15~20mg/dl, the pediatrician will ask the baby to "expose to blue light" to change bilirubin into structural metabolites that will not harm the brain. The doctor will consider whether it is related to hemolysis, infection or insufficient intake. If jaundice is not caused by any disease, try to reduce it by feeding more and increasing bowel movements. The bilirubin that causes neonatal jaundice can only be excreted through defecation. Phototherapy is only used as an auxiliary treatment.

Children must be fed 30 ml of boiled water every morning and evening, and should also drink an appropriate amount of water during the day so that they can eliminate jaundice in their bodies as soon as possible. If you are breastfeeding, it's fine, but if you are drinking formula, you need to add water.

When you find that the neonatal jaundice index is high, give the child some glucose water. Add glucose to water and feed it to the child. This is an effective way to remove jaundice.

Jaundice is a common symptom and sign, which occurs due to increased serum bilirubin concentration caused by bilirubin metabolism disorders. Clinically, the sclera, mucous membranes, skin and other tissues are stained yellow. Because the sclera contains more elastin and has a stronger affinity with bilirubin, the yellowing of the sclera in patients with jaundice is often noticed first before the mucous membranes and skin. When the total serum bilirubin is between 17.1 and 34.2 μmol/L, but jaundice is not visible to the naked eye, it is called latent jaundice or subclinical jaundice. When the total serum bilirubin concentration exceeds 34.2 μmol/L, jaundice can be found clinically, which is also called overt jaundice.