Pathological jaundice

For children with pathological jaundice, their physical condition is relatively worse than that of healthy children. Some children's body temperature is not as normal as that of normal children, and they are often accompanied by symptoms such as vomiting. Therefore, children with pathological jaundice often cannot live a normal life. For such children, their condition should be discovered in time and then treatment measures should be taken.

Pathological jaundice is usually more common in newborn babies. There are many main causes of the disease. If you want to get the correct treatment, it is recommended that parents take their children to check in detail to find out the cause of the disease.

Jaundice is more common in newborns than at any other age. Its causes are special and complex. There are physiological jaundice, pathological jaundice, and breast milk jaundice. These situations need to be treated differently and handled accordingly. If a child develops jaundice within 24 hours after birth or the jaundice develops too quickly and lasts for a long time, it may even be accompanied by anemia, abnormal body temperature, poor feeding, vomiting, and abnormal urine and stool color. In some cases, jaundice has subsided or alleviated and then reappeared and worsened, which is mostly pathological jaundice. Common causes of pathological jaundice include neonatal hemolytic disease, neonatal infection, biliary tract malformation and neonatal hepatitis.

Diseases such as neonatal hemolytic disease, neonatal infection, biliary tract malformation, and neonatal hepatitis are the most common causes of pathological jaundice. Regardless of the disease that causes it, severe pathological jaundice is likely to develop into "kernicterus" that can damage the newborn's nervous system or even be fatal, so prevention and treatment must be strengthened. Certain reasons (inborn errors of metabolic enzymes and hereditary defects of red blood cells) as well as physical, chemical, biological and immune factors can lead to excessive destruction of red blood cells in the body, resulting in anemia and hemolysis, and excess bilirubin in the blood, all of which can cause prehepatic jaundice. Such as autoimmune hemolytic anemia, hereditary spherocytosis, unstable hemoglobinopathy, etc.

In order to avoid the baby being born with jaundice, it is best to take preventive measures, such as regular prenatal checkups during pregnancy to check the fetus at any time. If the fetus is found to have jaundice, medication should be taken under the guidance of a doctor. If the baby is found to have jaundice after birth, treatment should be given immediately.