Patient's question:
When my child was born, jaundice, bruises, and difficulty breathing appeared multiple times on their skin. The doctor told me it was neonatal hemolytic disease, and I was very scared because he said it could affect the newborn's life. I didn't know what neonatal hemolytic disease was.Doctor's answer:
According to the symptoms you described, the baby with neonatal hemolytic disease will experience various symptoms multiple times, mainly including jaundice, hepatosplenomegaly, anemia, etc. The severity of the symptoms is basically consistent with the degree of hemolysis. Neonatal hemolytic disease is caused by alloimmune hemolysis due to incompatible blood types between the mother and child. An antigen-antibody reaction occurs between the mother and fetus, leading to the destruction of fetal red blood cells, resulting in an autoimmune disease.