Patient's question:
Baby has jaundice after birth, jaundice improves and then pneumonia appears, doctor ruled out sepsis, what is neonatal sepsis?Doctor's answer:
When a child is born with jaundice, lung infection, and fever, we must be highly vigilant about neonatal sepsis, as it can severely endanger the child's life. The treatment is primarily antiviral (using antibiotics); jaundice is just a symptom of the disease (such as sepsis), so jaundice does not cause sepsis. Neonatal sepsis can occur in multiple ways. The umbilical cord is just one of them. Unless there is clear umbilical inflammation (purulent, foul-smelling, red), and the secretions and blood cultures from the umbilical cord are the same bacteria, it is difficult to determine sepsis caused by umbilical cord infection without clear evidence.