Classification and Overview of neonatal jaundice cause.doc

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 5 Classification and Overview of neonatal jaundice cause [Keywords:] neonatal jaundice, overview, classification, etiology Newborn Jaundice is a whole body in children after the birth of the skin, eyes and urine are diseases characterized by yellow, Chinese medicine is called fetal yellow. Jaundice is a common neonatal diseases, various types of newborn jaundice by an overview of the basis of the classification and etiology aspects of the discussion, so that the correct distinction, reduce complications, receive better treatment. A physiological jaundice in children found that 24 h of birth jaundice, and can disappear naturally within 14 days, no other symptoms, called physiological jaundice, 50% occur in children born in the normal physiological jaundice, the preterm children, the The incidence of physiological jaundice should be higher, up to 80%. physiological jaundice, most of the first three days after birth there. Early in the second day after birth, appeared later than 5 days may appear in the yellow dye, the color relatively light light, pale yellow, usually 2 to 3 days subsided. a little severe jaundice can be delayed to a 5 to 6 days later subsided, and jaundice in preterm children, most should not exceed 7 to 10 days. more than 14 days jaundice is persistent jaundice, or due to other causes of pathologic jaundice. physiological jaundice in the order, usually first seen in the face, neck, and then across the chest and abdomen and limbs, sclera also appeared stained. physiological jaundice resulting because children born with the body’s metabolism of bilirubin. There is a body to eliminate excess bilirubin transferase, to children age 3 to 5 days to mature, so this period, the newborn appears excessive body while the performance of bilirubin jaundice. When this transferase mature, it will eliminate the excess part of the bilirubin, jaundice disappears. so does not require physical treatment of jaundice, which is in the pro