Patient's question:
How to distinguish between physiological jaundice and pathological jaundice? Medical history and treatment effectiveness: The baby started showing yellowing from the 7th or 8th day. Sometimes it looks slightly yellow, and other times it looks very yellow, like the color of a chicken egg. What kind of help is needed: Is this pathological? The baby is 12 days old today and still has intermittent episodes.Doctor's answer:
Neonatal jaundice, first consider it as physiological jaundice. As long as it is not severe, it can usually disappear completely within 2 weeks. If the jaundice is relatively severe or persists without resolving, it is pathological jaundice and requires hospital treatment. If there are no other complications, the symptoms you described should be physiological jaundice. Pay attention to keeping the newborn warm, appropriately advancing feeding, providing sufficient water and heat energy, and expelling meconium early to reduce enterohepatic circulation of bilirubin, which can alleviate the severity of physiological jaundice. Wishing you good health!