Patient's question:
The day before yesterday, I went to the hospital for a check-up. The result came back as 78. I would like to ask if this number is high. Is it necessary to undergo some tests or treatment?Doctor's answer:
Neonatal jaundice, clinically including pathological jaundice, physiological jaundice, and breast milk jaundice, only pathological jaundice can lead to bilirubin encephalopathy, irreversible brain damage, pathological jaundice requires blue light irradiation and symptomatic drug treatment, physiological jaundice and breast milk jaundice. No drug treatment is required. Your description, if the infant's skin test jaundice value, is severe jaundice, may lead to bilirubin encephalopathy, requiring hospital treatment.