Patient's question:
I want to have a second child. I am O-type, and my husband is B-type. However, the first child did not experience hemolytic disease. I don't know if the risk is higher for the second one. How can hemolytic disease be determined?Doctor's answer:
Neonatal ABO hemolytic disease is caused by incompatibility between the mother and baby's ABO blood types, and it is more common in mothers with O blood type and infants with A or B blood type. This incompatibility between the mother and baby's ABO blood types is not uncommon, but the incidence of neonatal hemolytic disease is relatively low, and most symptoms are mild, with only some newborns having obvious jaundice. Diagnosis can be confirmed through Coombs test and antibody release test.