How long does it take to cure infectious jaundice? Revealing the cause of infectious jaundice

Jaundice is a common disease in newborns. After jaundice occurs, the sclera, mucous membranes and other skin tissues of the baby will be stained yellow. In addition to skin and sclera infections, abdominal pain, itching and fever will also occur. Therefore, if the baby has jaundice, it must be treated in time.

Many newborns will have jaundice within three days of birth, but the jaundice value of each baby is different, some are high and some are low: Jaundice is also divided into physiological jaundice and pathological jaundice: Pathological jaundice is more harmful and more difficult to treat. The most common is infectious jaundice. So how long does it take to cure infectious jaundice? Many people don’t understand this. Let me share with you, and I hope you can understand it.

Infectious jaundice is a type of jaundice that is more harmful. It is caused by excessive production of bilirubin in the body. Since bilirubin is metabolized by liver cells, increased jaundice will lead to impaired liver cell function, which in turn leads to reduced bilirubin metabolism. When liver cells are destroyed, bilirubin overflows, resulting in infectious jaundice. Infectious jaundice can cause rupture of the capillaries in the small bile ducts in the gallbladder, causing bilirubin to overflow from the ruptured bile ducts and flow back into the blood, forming infectious jaundice.

Infectious jaundice is more difficult to treat, so its treatment cycle is also relatively long. The jaundice value can only be reduced little by little. Generally, blue light irradiation is used to reduce the bilirubin in the blood, and some anti-inflammatory drugs are also required. The most common one is gentamicin. This antibiotic can effectively eliminate inflammation and help reduce jaundice. The general treatment cycle of infectious jaundice is 5 days.

There will be some special symptoms of infectious jaundice, that is, the baby's skin and sclera will be dyed yellow, the inner pages of urine will also be yellow, the child will have abdominal distension, abdominal pain, loss of appetite, nausea and vomiting, severe infectious jaundice patients will also experience skin itching, bradycardia, night blindness, fatigue and mental depression, jaundice will also cause severe upper abdominal pain, infectious jaundice can also lead to a variety of complications, such as multiple venous thrombosis and bradycardia, will also be accompanied by jaundiced encephalopathy and intracranial hemorrhage.