Prevention and care of neonatal jaundice

Prevention and care of neonatal jaundice

To prevent neonatal jaundice, you should pay attention to the following points:

1. Prevention

1. Fetal jaundice is often caused by the invasion of damp heat in pregnant women, which affects the fetus and leads to fetal jaundice after birth. Pregnant women should pay attention to food hygiene during pregnancy, eat in moderation, eat cold food, but not too much hunger, avoid drinking and spicy products, so as not to damage the spleen and stomach.

2. Women with a history of hepatitis or infants with pathological jaundice should measure blood antibodies and their dynamic changes before delivery, and take corresponding preventive drug treatment measures. Monitoring should be strengthened during delivery, and infants should also be strictly monitored after delivery, and timely treatment should be given if symptoms occur.

3 If the couple's blood types are incompatible, especially if the mother's blood type is O and the father's blood type is A, B or AB, or the mother's RH blood type is negative, regular serological and amniotic fluid tests should be performed and delivery should be carried out under close monitoring to prevent the occurrence of neonatal hemolytic disease.

4 After the baby is born, scleral jaundice should be closely observed to promptly understand the onset and disappearance time of jaundice, treat jaundice as soon as possible, observe the color changes of jaundice, and understand the progress and regression of jaundice.

5. Keep the newborn warm and start feeding early.

2. Nursing precautions

1 Pay attention to observe the systemic symptoms of infants with fetal jaundice, including depression, drowsiness, difficulty sucking, alertness, strabismus, limb rigidity or convulsions, so as to detect and treat seriously ill children as early as possible.

2. Closely observe changes in heart rate, heart sounds, anemia level and liver size to prevent and treat heart failure at an early stage.

3. Keep baby's skin, navel and buttocks clean to prevent damage and infection.

4 When blood exchange treatment is required, the ward air should be disinfected in time, blood and various medicines and items should be prepared, and the operating procedures should be strictly followed.

5. Prevention of complications: sepsis, neonatal pneumonia, biliary atresia, and breast milk jaundice.