Neonatal jaundice12

Jaundice is a relatively common disease that people may encounter in their daily lives, which causes great harm to people's physical health and normal life. For some adults, jaundice symptoms can be well treated with some medications or other methods, but for newborns, due to problems with the body's immune system, this condition can be very serious when it occurs. So what kind of situation is it when it is found that the neonatal jaundice is 12?

Want to know if neonatal jaundice of 12.9 is normal? First of all, you need to understand the normal range of neonatal jaundice.

Generally speaking, the normal value of jaundice in full-term newborns is 12.9 mg/100 ml, which means that the bilirubin level in 100 ml of blood is lower than 12.9 mg. The normal jaundice values ​​for premature babies are different from those for full-term newborns. The normal value of jaundice in premature babies is 15 mg/100 ml of blood, which means that the bilirubin level in 100 ml of blood is less than 15 mg.

When the baby's jaundice value exceeds 12.9mg/dl or the neonatal jaundice index rises too quickly (rising by more than 5mh/dl per day), or the jaundice lasts longer than the time it takes for a full-term baby to disappear within 14 days and for a premature baby to disappear within 4 weeks, or the jaundice disappears and reappears. It means that the neonatal jaundice is unhealthy and may be suffering from pathological jaundice.

Therefore, if your baby is full-term, then 12.9 is normal! But if it is a premature baby, then it means that the jaundice value is high!

Causes of high incidence of neonatal jaundice

1. There are too many red blood cells in the newborn's body. After the red blood cells are destroyed, too much bilirubin is produced. Bilirubin is the direct cause of jaundice, so the newborn will have high jaundice.

2. The metabolism of bilirubin requires the participation of liver enzymes in the liver. The liver function of newborns is not very perfect, which leads to insufficient secretion of liver enzymes, resulting in untimely excretion of bilirubin and high jaundice.

3. The excretion of bilirubin requires the participation of the bile duct. The bile duct function of newborns is not yet perfect, so bilirubin accumulates in the body and cannot be excreted in time, resulting in excessive bilirubin and high jaundice.

4. Bilirubin can also be excreted from the feces, but the meconium of newborns is relatively viscous, which makes the excretion of bilirubin not very smooth, resulting in excessive bilirubin in the newborn's body, leading to high jaundice.

5. In addition, the incompatibility of blood types between mother and child can also cause bilirubin to accumulate in the newborn's body and cannot be excreted. In addition, pathological jaundice may be caused by neonatal diseases, such as neonatal asphyxia, premature birth, infection and other factors. Bacteria can cause excessive neonatal jaundice.

6. Breastfeeding can also cause bilirubin to accumulate in the body of newborns, resulting in high levels of jaundice in newborns.