Patient's question:
Description of the condition (onset time, main symptoms, changes in symptoms, etc.): The doctor said it's hemolytic jaundice. Is this hemolytic jaundice serious?Doctor's answer:
The treatment of hemolytic jaundice primarily involves treating the underlying hemolytic disorder itself: eliminating the cause (such as the destruction of red blood cells caused by malaria requires curing malaria to correct it), removing triggers (such as avoiding broad beans and medications with oxidative properties in patients with G-6-PD deficiency), and symptomatic treatment (such as using adrenal corticosteroids and plasma exchange for autoimmune hemolytic anemia, and splenectomy for patients with hereditary spherocytosis, certain types of thalassemia, and those with ineffective autoimmune hemolytic anemia). Secondly, symptomatic jaundice-reducing treatment is used, with commonly used medications including Yinzhihuang and Semite. However, it must be emphasized that if hemolysis is not resolved, jaundice reduction is difficult, and the effect is only temporary.