Patient's question:
That was what my doctor told me yesterday that my child's face was yellow and needed to stop breastfeeding, so I hurriedly searched online. But the results confused me greatly. Some said to check if the child's eyes are yellow, which would mean jaundice. However, my child has never had yellow eyes; they have always been blue-white. What should I do?Doctor's answer:
A newborn refers to a child from birth to twenty-eight days after birth. Pathological jaundice includes the following manifestations: early onset, <24 hours; rapid worsening; prolonged duration, >15 days; reappearance after resolution. Generally, after fifteen days, if the skin of the child can still be seen to be jaundiced, it is pathological, regardless of whether the eyes are yellow or not. If even the eyes turn yellow, the child's jaundice is at least moderate. Only when the mother is type O and the child's blood type is not O can ABO blood group incompatibility hemolysis occur, and it does not necessarily lead to hemolysis in all such cases.