Patient's question:
My baby's jaundice level is 8.8, and it's been over a month. Can giving newborns glucose water help reduce jaundice?Doctor's answer:
Newborn jaundice has a certain auxiliary effect with alcohol, but jaundice is generally not recommended to drink glucose. Newborn jaundice is usually physiological jaundice and will disappear after 14 days. Generally, some glucose water can be drunk in the ward. Glucose water is not recommended to be drunk. One is aspiration pneumonia, the other is afraid of affecting the baby's breastfeeding (because newborns will absorb too much glucose water at one time when feeding glucose water, its taste is easier to accept than breast milk, and at the same time it will give newborns a false sense of fullness, thus affecting milk absorption). This is the reason why newborn jaundice cannot drink glucose.