Patient's question:
Hello doctor, the baby in my sister's family just gave birth, and the doctor said the child has jaundice and prescribed some jaundice-reducing medicine. However, the child is too young to take medicine well. I heard that drinking more water can help. I'd like to ask if newborn jaundice requires drinking more water?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. According to your description, the baby is born with jaundice, which is caused by pathological jaundice. To avoid bilirubin encephalopathy, medication or blue light treatment is needed.