Patient's question:
Female, 33 years old, as a new mother, discovered that her child had abnormalities, and later learned it was jaundice. Please ask: How can newborn jaundice be treated?Doctor's answer:
Your baby has neonatal jaundice. Let me give you some technical information about jaundice. Please refer to the following: The data obtained through transcutaneous measurement should generally be below 10 (as the values may vary slightly depending on the instrument). If blood is drawn to measure the level of bilirubin in the blood, the normal value is generally below 205 umol/l (12 mg/dl). For a normal infant at 30 days, the total bilirubin normal value is 1.7～17.1 umol/l (0.1～1.0 mg/dl). Direct bilirubin is 0～6.8 umol/l (0～0.4 mg/dl). Indirect bilirubin is 1.7～10.2 umol/l (0.1～0.6 mg/dl). Urine test is the only way to determine the actual level of bilirubin. Because transcutaneous bilirubin measurement can be affected by the child's skin color and fat thickness.