Phototherapy, care for billirubin

We have discussed the billirubin is produced, because they break the old red blood cells at birth but over the days and times do not usually leave the baby becomes much more yellowish, the consultation is likely that the pediatrician, we recommend, put it behind the deadlight to sunbathe, with proper care, but if they did not reach, surely recommend you have to do a little light therapy.

Not to lower the levels of billirubin can damage severely the baby's nervous system, the child will undertake blood tests to determine the cause of jaundice, and then begin treatment.

Phototherapy involves exposing the baby to radiation of type lamps fluorescent for a day or two, until the liver is mature enough to metabolize excess billirubin, sunlight would have the same effect, but not strong enough , to cause the desired response.

Jaundice happens when the baby turns yellow

Many normal, healthy infants have a yellow color in your skin the first days of life, this condition is called physiologic jaundice, and it is because the blood contains too much billirubin, a chemical that forms during the normal breakdown of old blood cells.

In newborns, this matter often quite high, due to increased red blood cell in your liver at the time of birth, even immature having difficulty processing the excess billirubin.

If the billirubin level increases more than it first appears on the face, then chest and then the abdomen, finally in the legs, usually gradually increase, and decreases with every passing day without some sort necessary treatment.