What are the effects of neonatal jaundice on babies?

What impact does neonatal jaundice have on babies?

Neonatal jaundice is physiological jaundice, which usually does not have adverse effects on infants. If it is pathological jaundice, it may lead to bilirubin encephalopathy, which may have long-term or temporary effects on children and requires early and active treatment.

Neonatal jaundice includes physiological jaundice and pathological jaundice. If it is physiological jaundice, it usually has little effect on children. However, pathological jaundice may cause the bilirubin level to be too high, and bilirubin may enter the brain, causing kernicterus, also known as bilirubin encephalopathy.

If the symptoms of bilirubin encephalopathy are mild, they will have a temporary impact on the baby, such as poor response and poor feeding. If treated promptly, the symptoms may be reversible and have no long-term effects on the child. However, if pathological bilirubin continues to increase, it will cause irreversible damage to the child, and hearing loss, cerebral palsy and other problems may occur in the future.

Pathological jaundice should be treated promptly. The judgment of pathological jaundice is a dynamic change, and professional doctors are required to judge whether there is an impact based on the bilirubin line chart. If the result is not high, it will have little impact on the child, and phototherapy and jaundice treatment can be simply performed. If bilirubin encephalopathy is caused, dynamic observation can be performed in the future, monthly follow-up, follow-up of children's nervous system damage, and timely treatment.