Patient's question:
My relative sells glutinous rice cakes, and Zhou Aunt's grandson is one year old this year. Since her daughter-in-law is a teacher and her son works for the government, she has been taking care of her grandson alone. In the past two months, I have often visited her house. I noticed that her grandson's complexion was particularly yellow, so I asked Zhou Aunt to take him to see a doctor. Zhou Aunt took her grandson back to the hospital and asked the doctor. The doctor said that her grandson had neonatal jaundice. Zhou Aunt asked, "Does this condition affect intelligence?"Doctor's answer:
Most babies will experience a recurrence of normal physiological jaundice. As long as the baby is in good spirits, feeding well, and does not show symptoms such as convulsions or twitching, and if the baby develops jaundice again, adopting active symptomatic treatment will generally not lead to bilirubin encephalopathy, and it will not affect the baby's intelligence.If the baby's jaundice level is too high and falls below the normal range, while the baby shows symptoms such as poor, poor appetite, weak sucking, and does not receive timely blue light treatment or other symptomatic treatments, it is easy to develop bilirubin encephalopathy. This can lead to cerebral palsy, intellectual disabilities, hearing loss, or incomplete enamel development.