How to quickly reduce neonatal jaundice

Many babies will have certain symptoms of jaundice when they are born, that is, the child's skin will be yellower. Generally speaking, most of them are physiological jaundice and do not require treatment. They will gradually disappear as the child grows. However, some pathological jaundice must be treated promptly and formally. You can bask in the sun, use blue light therapy or medication. Generally speaking, the effects are very good.

How to quickly reduce neonatal jaundice

1) Sunbathing to treat jaundice

Using the blue and green light from the sun to treat and reduce your baby's jaundice is the most common and direct treatment method. Newborn babies are more delicate, so be sure to take protective measures when basking in the sun:

① First of all, you need to protect your baby's eyes. You can make an eye mask with black cloth at home and put it on your baby;

② To protect the external genitalia, put diapers on your baby when basking in the sun (there are special blue light diapers) for protection;

③ Use glass to sunbathe to reduce the damage of ultraviolet rays to the newborn's skin; pay attention to changing the body position each time you sunbathe, first sunbathe on your back, then turn over;

④ The total amount of sun exposure time is 2-4 hours a day;

After sunbathing, you need to feed your baby more milk or water to help the excretion of bilirubin in the baby's body.

2) Blue light treatment for jaundice

Blue light irradiation is a simple, effective and fast-acting method for treating neonatal jaundice. Through light irradiation, the bilirubin in the body can be converted into other substances, so that the bilirubin that continues to accumulate in the body can find another outlet. The symptoms of jaundice can gradually improve and eventually disappear completely.

3) Drug treatment

Oral administration of Yinzhihuang:

It is effective in treating jaundice, but some children will have diarrhea after taking it. If the jaundice does not improve and the child has severe diarrhea, stop using it.