How to treat breast milk jaundice

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Breast milk jaundice refers to the idiopathic jaundice related to breast-feeding. The main clinical feature is that jaundice occurs soon after breast-feeding, but there are no other systemic symptoms. It is common in term infants. It is mainly due to the increase of intestinal hepatic circulation in neonatal bilirubin metabolism, which is caused by breast milk itself. Let me talk about how to treat breast milk jaundice?

How to treat breast milk jaundice

First, if it is confirmed that the child is breast-feeding jaundice, breast-feeding should be suspended for 3 days to artificial feeding, and the milk volume is calculated as 150ml / kg. D. During the period of breast milk suspension, the breast milk should be sucked out by the breast pump to maintain the full secretion of milk and continue to breastfeed after jaundice subsides.

Second: pay attention to keep warm, thicken clothes and bedding at night, avoid children catching cold, increase heat, nutrition, prevent infection; Encourage nursing mothers to feed a small amount of milk for many times to increase the frequency of defecation. Severe cases were treated with liver protection, enzyme inducer and other drugs.

Third: in the diet, you can drink chicken soup, but also to do diet should be a small number of meals. If you have a good appetite, you can change to a semi liquid diet, such as noodle soup, chicken soup, longxumian, small wonton, vegetable mud porridge, meat floss porridge, liver mud porridge, egg flower porridge.

matters needing attention

Because of breast milk itself. Many mothers of newborns don't know the cause of the disease. They are worried. In fact, breast milk jaundice is not so terrible.