What are the typical symptoms of neonatal pathological jaundice

What are the typical symptoms of neonatal pathological jaundice?

① Jaundice appears too early within 24 hours after birth.

② The jaundice disappears too late or lasts too long, exceeding the normal disappearance time, or the jaundice disappears and reappears, or the jaundice gradually disappears after the peak time and progressively worsens.

③ Excessive jaundice often affects the whole body, and the skin and mucous membranes become noticeably yellow.

④ When checking serum bilirubin, the bilirubin exceeds 12 mg/dl, or increases too quickly, increasing by more than 5 mg/dl per day.

⑤ In addition to jaundice, there are other abnormal conditions, such as mental fatigue, less exercise, less food, unstable temperature, crying, etc. Vegetarian jaundice can be seriously complicated by bilirubin, commonly known as "kernicterus", causing damage to the nervous system and leading to serious sequelae, such as mental retardation in children, and even death.

When children develop jaundice, if any of the above five aspects are present, parents should pay great attention to it so that pathological jaundice can be detected early and treated in time.