What are the typical symptoms of neonatal jaundice

What are the typical symptoms of neonatal jaundice?

Neonatal jaundice is divided into physiological and pathological.

Symptoms of physiological neonatal jaundice include:

The skin, whites of the eyes, and oral mucosa of newborns turn yellow 1 to 3 days after birth, with varying degrees of severity. The face and chest are usually more obvious, but the palms and soles of the feet are not yellow. The yellowing is most obvious from 1 to 6 days after birth, disappears 10 to 14 days after birth for full-term infants, and can last until the third week for premature infants. During this period, children are usually in good condition and have no other discomfort.

Physiological jaundice is a normal phenomenon in newborns, but parents should also pay close attention. Generally speaking, physiological jaundice is mild, the bilirubin concentration in the blood is low, and it will not affect children's intelligence.

Symptoms of pathological jaundice are as follows:

Jaundice in children may occur within 24 hours after birth, or persist, or reappear after jaundice subsides, or progressively worsen.

Pathological neonatal jaundice can also lead to other diseases, such as kernicterus. When it occurs, the child's jaundice becomes significantly worse, and begins to show symptoms of drowsiness, weak sucking or suffocation, and decreased muscle tension. If not treated in time, serious symptoms such as groaning, screaming, convulsions, and respiratory failure will appear. Some children die of respiratory failure, and the surviving children often have sequelae such as intellectual disabilities and cerebral palsy.

The above is an introduction to the symptoms of neonatal jaundice. When a newborn baby has jaundice, parents can feed glucose water to help reduce the jaundice. When the jaundice is severe, the child should be sent to the hospital for treatment in time to prevent the occurrence of kernicterus and avoid affecting the child's intellectual development.