Patient's question:
I am a postpartum woman of advanced age. Seven days ago, I gave birth to a little princess, and I noticed that her legs, hands, and palms feel yellowish. My partner's mother said this is a symptom of jaundice. Since I don't understand it very well either, I would like to ask what are the different types of jaundice in babies?Doctor's answer:
Hello. To this parent. Usually. Breast milk jaundice mainly refers to the phenomenon where a baby's skin turns yellow when they are breastfeeding. If you stop eating, it will gradually disappear. Jaundice is both physiological and pathological. Pathological jaundice is typically divided into hemolytic jaundice, hepatocellular jaundice, and obstructive jaundice. The various components in the body also include multiple pathogenic analyses, such as excessive bilirubin, hemolysis leading to excessive bilirubin, bleeding, especially head edema, slow bilirubin metabolism such as liver dysfunction, infection, and excretion abnormalities, such as intestinal diseases or biliary excretion disorders. Hemolysis, infection, and bleeding are very common in patients.