How to reduce jaundice in children faster

Most pediatric jaundice is physiological jaundice, which usually occurs 2 to 3 days after the birth of the newborn and will disappear on its own in about 10 days. In fact, this also varies from person to person. Some will fade away quickly while others will fade away slowly. In fact, there are many ways in daily life that can help eliminate jaundice quickly. These methods are not only scientific but also effective. Come and learn about them.

1. How to quickly eliminate baby 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 sunbathing (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 lying on your back, then turning 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.

How to help your baby get rid of jaundice

3. Medication

Oral use of Yinzhihuang: It has a certain effect on the treatment of 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.

2. Misunderstandings about Guan Yu's Jaundice

1. Can brown sugar water treat baby jaundice?

Many elderly people believe that drinking brown sugar water can cure baby jaundice, and even some doctors think so. This misunderstanding arises from an enzyme: glucuronyl transferase. This enzyme is a protein and plays an important role in the metabolism of jaundice. Some doctors mistakenly believe that the glucose produced by brown sugar metabolism can increase the amount or activity of this enzyme. In fact, the enzyme is a protein and has nothing to do with glucose, so brown sugar water has almost no effect on the treatment of jaundice.

2. Can’t get vaccinations if you have jaundice?

Physiological jaundice does not affect vaccination. Even if it is pathological jaundice, vaccination can be performed if the bilirubin drops to a safe range. Your doctor will tell you what the safe range is.

3. Will jaundice never recur once it is cured?

Usually physiological jaundice will not recur after it is cured, but for pathological jaundice, even if the bilirubin is lowered through blue light therapy, it will rise again after a period of time. Therefore, these people need to find out the cause of the disease and cure it so that jaundice can be completely cured.