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| | The MSDS HyperGlossary: Jaundice |
 | | Jaundice is a sign of hyperbilirubinemia a high level of bilirubin (a substance that comes from the natural breakdown of the heme portion of hemoglobin) in the body. | | | Jaundice is a condition marked by a yellowish color to the skin and the whites of the eyes. | | | One effective treatment for neonatal (newborn infant) hyperbilirubinemiais (jaundice) is called phototherapy, where the patient is put under special fluorescent lamps to help break down the excess bilirubin. |
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| | In the vast majority of cases, newborn jaundice is a normal process, which many researchers feel may even serve protective functions, such as guarding the infant from the effects of oxygen free radicals. | | | The treatment for physiologic jaundice is more breastfeeding rather than less, and sick babies with pathologic jaundice need breastmilk even more than healthy babies. | | | One of the things jaundice does is make your baby sleepy, especially is he is "under the lights". |
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| | ProMoM, Inc. - Breastfeeding and Jaundice |
| | Jaundice is due to a buildup in the blood of bilirubin, a yellow pigment which comes from the breakdown of old red blood cells. | | | The notion that there is something wrong with the baby being jaundiced comes from the assumption that the formula feeding baby is the standard by which we should determine how the breastfed baby should be. | | | However, there may be other conditions which cause an exaggeration of this type of jaundice, such as a more rapid than normal breakdown of red blood cells. |
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| | Jaundice in Healthy Newborns |
| | Your child's doctor should be called immediately if jaundice is noted during the first 24 hours of life, the jaundice involves arms or legs, your baby develops a fever over 100 degrees Fahrenheit (37.8 degrees Celsius), or if your child starts to look or act sick. | | | The seriousness of the jaundice will vary based on your child's age and the presence of other medical conditions. | | | A jaundiced baby's skin will appear yellow first on the face, followed by the chest and stomach, and finally, the legs. |
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| | Jaundice is very common in newborn babies due to the fact that the newborn liver is not able to cope with the normal breakdown of red blood cells. | | | Severe jaundice in babies should be treated promptly. | | | Bilirubin is one of the breakdown products of haemoglobin and is carried to the liver to be excreted in the bile. |
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| | Jaundice is a common condition in newborn infants that usually shows up shortly after birth. | | | Parents should be aware of any changes in their newborn's skin color or the coloring in the whites of their child's eyes. | | | The level at which it becomes dangerous will vary based on a child's age and if there are other medical conditions. |
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| | Jaundice - DrGreene.com |
| | Jaundice is common in new babies and is usually not a problem. | | | Breastfeeding jaundice is jaundice that may occur in the first week of life in more than 1 in 10 breastfed infants. | | | Jaundice is even more common in premature babies. |
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| | Caring for Your Baby: Newborn Jaundice |
| | Although jaundice usually goes away within a week or two, the doctor will monitor the baby’s condition to see if there is need for any treatment. | | | Jaundice occurs in about 50-60 percent of full-term newborns. | | | The National Niemann-Pick Disease Foundation is a nonprofit organization that promotes research, provides information, and supports families of NPD patients. |
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| | Jaundice in newborns |
| | When a newborn baby shows signs of jaundice, the doctor does a physical examination and blood tests to help determine the cause of the jaundice and when it should be treated. | | | One way to reduce bilirubin levels in a baby’s body is to expose the baby’s skin to light, a process called phototherapy. | | | The doctor will do a physical examination and often blood tests to see how severe the baby’s jaundice is. The doctor can then determine how it should be treated. |
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| | Question and Answers on Jaundice and Your Newborn |
| | A: Jaundice is more common in babies who are breastfed than babies who are formula-fed, but this occurs mainly in infants who are not nursing well. | | | Jaundice may be harder to see in babies with darker skin color. | | | A: If your baby looks jaundiced in the first few days after birth, your baby’s doctor or nurse may use a skin test or blood test to check your baby’s bilirubin level. |
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| | General Information about Kernicterus, NCBDDD, CDC |
| | Also, jaundice is harder to see in babies with darker skin tones. | | | A little jaundice is not a problem, but a few babies have too much jaundice. | | | A baby who has bruises at birth is likely to have jaundice. |
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| | BabyCentre Jaundice |
| | Remember, jaundice is a temporary condition which usually clears up quickly without any intervention and has no long-term effects (except in severe cases). | | | Experts recommend this quick home test to check for jaundice: In a well-lit room, apply gentle pressure to your baby's chest; if there's a yellow tinge to the skin as the pressure is released, consult your GP. | | | More than half of all normal, healthy babies develop a yellowish tinge to their skin in the first few days of life. |
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| | Jaundice (0-12 months) |
| | If there's any concern that your baby is jaundiced, his doctor may do a skin test or blood test to check his bilirubin levels. | | | With a prescription from your doctor, you may be able to rent one of these blankets to treat your baby at home. | | | Phototherapy is usually effective, but if a baby develops a severe case of jaundice, or his bilirubin levels continue to rise despite phototherapy treatment, he may need to be admitted to the intensive care unit for a blood transfusion called an "exchange transfusion." |
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| | Jaundice |
| | The balance between manufacture and breakdown of red cells is normally precisely balanced and equal but there are several conditions in which the rate of breakdown increases. | | | The medical term for excessive red cell breakdown is 'haemolysis', and within the developed world it is a fairly rare condition. | | | Knowing how this removal pathway works is the key to understanding how jaundice occurs. |
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| | Lawrence and Gartner state, "Few issues in management of the newborn infant have generated as much confusion, uncertainty and anxiety in physicians as jaundice in the newborn." The aggressive management of jaundice in the past few decades, like so many things associated with breastfeeding, may be the result of faulty research. | | | The major problem is that breastmilk jaundice can be confused with other pathological conditions. | | | The breastfed infant's physiology is the normal standard and the formula fed infant is the artificially created physiological example. |
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| | Postgraduate Medicine: Neonatal jaundice |
| | Extravasated blood in ecchymosis, cephalohematomas, subgaleal hemorrhage, intraventricular or intracranial hemorrhage, pulmonary hemorrhage, or adrenal hemorrhage can predispose a newborn infant to severe hyperbilirubinemia resulting from breakdown of the blood. | | | In the Collaborative Perinatal Project of the National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke (9), in which more than 50,000 infants were studied prospectively, 10% to 20% of infants weighing less than 2,500 g (5.5 lb) at birth had total serum bilirubin levels higher than 15 mg/dL in the first week after birth. | | | The AAP recommends that infants discharged from the hospital within 48 hours of birth receive follow-up care within 2 to 3 days by their primary care physician (12). |
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| | MEDSTUDENTS-PEDIATRICS |
| | Jaundice is present during the first week of life in 60% of term infants and 80% of preterm infants. | | | Jaundice may be considered pathologic when the time of appearance, duration and pattern varies from physiologic jaundice, or if the infants has risk factors. | | | Premature infants bilirubin levels rise slower and last longer. |
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| | Jaundice |
| | Described in rabbinical literature, pigeon remedy is a form of transference treatment characterized by placing a pigeon on the jaundiced person's navel. | | | pigeon remedy (pigeon therapy): An unconventional medical therapy for jaundice. | | | Jaundice: Dream Interpretation Index including links to 10.000 dream interpretations |
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| | Neonatal Jaundice |
| | It is clinically useful to classify jaundice according to the age of the baby when he/she becomes visibly jaundiced. | | | Evaluation and Treatment of Jaundice in the Term Newborn: A Kinder, Gentler Approach. | | | However, when a baby does become jaundiced, a common dilemma is deciding at what SBR level to intervene. |
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| | Newborn Jaundice |
| | Jaundice to the level of the shoulders correlates to 5-7 mg/dL, to the level of the umbilicus to 7-10 mg/dL, below the umbilicus to 10-12 mg/dL, and below the knees to >15 mg/dL. | | | Worst case of jaundice I ever worked with was a peak at 35, no lethargy or any other signs of distress in the 10 lb. | | | Jack Newman suggests that the idea that jaundice is bad is a standard based on formula-fed babies (who tend less often to be jaundiced). |
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| | Physiological jaundice occurs in blonde babies, Native American babies, those born with the aid of drugs, those not allowed to nurse immediately after birth and on-demand, and preemies. | | | Bile in the blood--which is what jaundice is--prevents the clotting of blood, and so doctors hesitate to do surgery for that reason. | | | In addition Dr. James Sidbury of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development suspects phototherapy might be responsible for increased mortality, particularly in small infants, because of lung problems and hemorrhage. |
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| | Jaundice, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center |
| | Physiologic jaundice - occurs as a "normal" response to the baby's limited ability to excrete bilirubin in the first days of life. | | | The yellow tint to the skin can often be seen by gently pressing on the baby's forehead or chest and watching the color return. | | | A premature infant is more likely to develop jaundice. |
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| | Newborn baby jaundice |
| | There are specific recomendations for treating jaundice in newborn babies. | | | According to the severity of the jaundice, the doctor may recommend placing the baby under special fluorescent lighting. | | | The same article says almost eighty percent of all premature infants and about fifty percent of all other infants experience some degree of jaundice. |
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| | Home aHealthyme.com |
| | However, debate concerning the use of the drug for treatment of only those infants with jaundice or as a preventive measure was delaying its FDA approval and widespread use. | | | The doctor will ask the patient to lie flat on the examining table in order to feel (palpate) the liver and spleen for enlargement and to evaluate any abdominal pain. | | | "Jaundice." In Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, ed. |
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| | Jaundice and Your Baby -- familydoctor.org |
| | In this treatment, some of your baby's blood is taken out, and it is replaced with blood from someone else. | | | If your baby has darker skin, it may be harder to check, except by looking at your baby's eyes and inside your baby's mouth. | | | Then it goes into the intestines and the kidneys, and then it goes out of the body. |
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| | JAUNDICE IN NEWBORN |
| | For mothers experiencing difficulty with breast feeding, early contact by telephone or in person with a lactation aid consultant should be very strongly encouraged. | | | It must also be remembered that babies of 36 to 37 weeks’ gestation (or less) do not nurse as well as more mature babies. | | | Early discharge has resulted in fewer opportunities to teach new mothers how to breastfeed or to detect medical conditions that don’t become evident until 24 to 72 hours after birth. |
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| | MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia: Newborn jaundice |
| | Call the infant's health care provider if jaundice is severe (the skin is bright yellow), if jaundice lasts longer than 1 or 2 weeks, or if other symptoms develop. | | | Sometimes, however, breastfeeding does need to be interrupted and bottle-feeding substituted for a brief period of time to clear the jaundice. | | | Calling your health care provider Return to top |
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| | All medical information needs to be carefully reviewed with your health care provider. | | | NOAH > Pregnancy > Newborn Care to 2 Years > Common Medical Conditions > Jaundice | | | DISCLAIMER: NOAH is an information guide only and cannot answer personal health-related or research questions. |
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| | If the jaundice does not improve the blood of the baby may also need to be changed (exchange transfusion). | | | Most important thing that you need to do is to show your baby to a pediatrician by day 3 of life so that the extent of jaundice can be properly assessed. | | | However severe untreated jaundice may lead to slow mental and physical development later. |
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| | Many instances of obstructive jaundice may require surgery. | | | During the normal breakdown of old erythrocytes (red blood cells), their hemoglobin is converted into bilirubin. | | | There are several conditions that may interrupt the elimination of bilirubin from the blood and cause jaundice. |
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| | Pediatric Oncall-JAUNDICE IN THE NEWBORN |
| | Q: Why does jaundice occur in a baby? | | | However if the baby shows any of the warning signs given above, consult your doctor as soon as possible. | | | A: Though 90% of the times, jaundice in a newborn is the physiological jaundice, some features may be suggestive of another disease. |
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| | If there is any obstruction to the flow of bile, the bilirubin would be pent up in the body. | | | Search here for an in depth information on various diseases and conditions. | | | Treatment of jaundice is basically the treatment of the cause. |
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| | BBC - Health - Conditions - Jaundice in children |
| | Jaundice is most easily seen if you blanch the skin with pressure - the nose is a good spot. | | | Physiological jaundice may settle without treatment but light therapy (phototherapy) may be needed. | | | BBC - Health - Conditions - Jaundice in children |
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| | Your are here: Home > Diseases, Conditions & Injuries > Jaundice | | | There are many treatments that may be used for liver and gallbladder problems depending on the condition. | | | Other symptoms may occur with jaundice depending on the specific disorder causing it. |
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| | UW Pediatrics: Parents of Preemies |
| | Your baby's bilirubin will be measured if s/he becomes jaundiced to be sure that s/he does not come close to having harmful levels. | | | Other problems are common, but may or may not occur in your baby. | | | Jaundice is the yellow color to the skin that is often seen in the first few days after birth. |
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| | Jaundice - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | All jaundice should be medically evaluated before treatment can be given. | | | Post-hepatic (or obstructive) jaundice, also called cholestasis, is caused by an interruption to the drainage of bile in the biliary system. | | | This is the chief reason for neonatal jaundice to be treated. |
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| | It is observed most commonly in children who have newborn jaundice (hyperbilirubinemia) caused by breakdown of fetal red blood cells and immature excretion ability; in infectious hepatitis; and in conditions of blockage of the flow of bile from the liver to the small bowel. | | | Jaundice refers to a yellow coloration of the skin caused by the accumulation of bilirubin in the fatty tissues of the body, especially those under the skin. | | | Do not say "yellow jaundice." There is no other kind, and you will sound less than sophisticated. |
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| | Introduction: Jaundice - WrongDiagnosis.com |
| | Researching symptoms of Jaundice: Further information about the symptoms of Jaundice is available including a list of symptoms of Jaundice, other diseases that might have similar symptoms in differential diagnosis of Jaundice, or alternatively return to research other symptoms in the symptom center. | | | Misdiagnosis and Jaundice: Research more detailed information about misdiagnosis of Jaundice, failure to diagnose Jaundice, underlying causes of Jaundice (possibly misdiagnosed), or research misdiagnosis of other diseases. | | | Causes of Jaundice: Research more detailed information about the causes of Jaundice, other possibly hidden causes of Jaundice, or other general information about Jaundice. |
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| | Pancreatic and Biliary Diseases - Jaundice |
| | Jaundice can have many causes, from benign (gallstones) to life threatening (pancreatic cancer). | | | If the jaundice is due to a gallstone, the doctor may do a laparoscopic cholecystectomy, open cholecystectomy or endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography. | | | If the jaundice is due to pancreatic or liver cancer, a wide range of cancer treatments might be recommended, depending on the stage, exact type, etc. |
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| | Jaundice in Newborns (Hyperbilirubinemia) -- Topic Overview |
| | Jaundice is a condition that causes a pronounced yellow tint to the skin and the white part of the eyes as a result of a higher-than-normal amount of bilirubin in the blood (hyperbilirubinemia). | | | Rarely, excessive amounts of bilirubin build up in the blood and lead to brain damage (kernicterus), which can result in hearing loss, mental retardation, and behavior problems. | | | Bilirubin is a substance produced by the breakdown of red blood cells and hemoglobin, the protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen from the lungs to the rest of the body. |
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| | JAUNDICE |
| | Conditions that can result in jaundice include: drug side effects, drug-induced hepatitis, pancreatic cancer, cholangiocarcinoma, choledocholithiasis, biliary atresia, bile duct stricture, Gilbert's syndrome, Dubin-Johnson syndrome, cholestasis of pregnancy, newborn jaundice, blood transfusion reaction, hemolytic anemia, viral hepatitis, primary biliary cirrhosis, autoimmune hepatitis, chronic active hepatitis, and malaria. | | | A yellowing of the skin, eyes, and sublingual (under the tongue) area that occurs when there is an overabundance of bilirubin in the bloodstream. |
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| | Gallstones and Cholecystitis, which prevent bile from entering the duodenum, can also cause jaundice, and so can drugs such as paracetamol, anabolic steroids, Valium, Largactil, monoamine oxidase inhibitors, and some oral contraceptives. | | | Jaundice fades once the underlying cause has been treated. | | | Haemolytic Anaemia in which red blood cells are broken down more quickly than they can be replaced, also causes jaundice. |
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| | Definition of jaundice - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary |
| | 2 : a disease or abnormal condition characterized by jaundice | | | For More Information on "jaundice" go to Britannica.com | | | Get the Top 10 Search Results for "jaundice" |
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