What symptom does neonatal jaundice bring

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If the neonatal jaundice is serious, no treatment will affect the child's brain, so parents should treat the child. During the neonatal period, a lot of diseases will appear, and jaundice is only one of them. A lot of babies will have the symptoms of the disease, which seriously endangers the health of the children. Mothers should have a thorough understanding of the symptoms of the disease in their life. Next, let's take friends to know what the symptoms of neonatal jaundice are.

What symptom does neonatal jaundice bring

1、 Physiological jaundice, neonatal physiological jaundice is a unique normal phenomenon in the neonatal period, because the fetus in the intrauterine hypoxia environment, the red blood cells in the blood generated too much, and this kind of red blood cells are not mature, easy to be destroyed, after the birth of the fetus, resulting in excessive bilirubin production, about twice that of adults; On the other hand, neonatal liver function is not mature, so that bilirubin metabolism is limited and other reasons, resulting in neonatal jaundice phenomenon in a period of time.

2、 Pathological jaundice, pathological jaundice common causes of neonatal hemolysis, virus or bacterial infection, biliary obstruction and so on. Pathological jaundice can occur within 24 hours after birth, jaundice symptoms persistent or subsided after jaundice, or jaundice was progressive aggravation. Pathological neonatal jaundice can also cause the manifestations of other diseases, such as nuclear jaundice. At the time of occurrence, jaundice in children was obviously aggravated, and it began to show drowsiness, weak sucking or choking milk, and hypotonia. If the treatment is not timely, then there may be groans, screams, convulsions, respiratory failure and other serious symptoms. Some children died of respiratory failure, and the surviving children often had sequelae such as mental retardation and cerebral palsy.

3、 Jaundice symptoms are caused by some diseases, such as neonatal hemolysis, biliary obstruction, neonatal hepatitis, and so on. We must seek medical treatment in time, especially pay attention to the occurrence of nuclear jaundice. The brain damage caused by it is irreversible. This disease is also called bilirubin encephalopathy, and its mortality is very high. Even if it survives, it often has sequelae, such as mental retardation, audio-visual impairment and hand pain Foot twitch and so on. According to different causes of neonatal pathological jaundice can have different clinical manifestations, if it is hemolytic jaundice, it can be manifested as jaundice, anemia, hepatosplenomegaly, etc.; if it is infectious jaundice, it can have fever, jaundice, and even septicemia, etc. In short, once the neonatal jaundice is found to be pathological, we should carefully look for the cause and strive for early treatment.

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If the neonatal jaundice is serious, no treatment will affect the child's brain, so parents should treat the child. After understanding the above knowledge, we realize the symptoms of neonatal jaundice, neonatal jaundice harm is particularly serious, more newborns will touch this disease, so we should know more about neonatal jaundice knowledge, also need to seriously understand the symptoms of this disease, the baby should pay attention to early treatment after onset.