Breast milk jaundice is going?

More and more popular as breastfeeding, neonatal jaundice occurs also has increased significantly in the past. In addition to skin of varying degree of severity of jaundice occurs in children, other areas, such as spirit, nurse, sleep, bowel, and so on are quite normal, child weight gain is also satisfactory. Went to the hospital, doctors often consider breast milk jaundice, are children: jaundice due to mother\'s milk is not good? what about do you want to stop breastfeeding?

Breast milk jaundice is an indirect hyperbilirubinemia due to increased bilirubin, high incidence, causes it to it is not yet very clear. It was speculated that in mother\'s milk contains a hormone, this hormone can compete with indirect bilirubin in combination with glucuronic acid in the liver enzyme; also expressed that the fatty acids in breast milk can inhibit this enzyme activity in liver, both cases can make indirect bilirubin will not translate into direct bilirubin, making indirect hyperbilirubinemia. At present most people think that breast milk jaundice is primarily due to increased intestinal absorption of bilirubin, bilirubin of normal bowel caused by the circulation increases. In short, the theory of a variety of causes, but are not sure.

How can I determine to breast milk jaundice? since there is no special tests check to be certain, so only exclude all can cause diseases of neonates with high bile before considering this disease, so doctors do not diagnosis is very cautious. In addition, you can try Diagnostics, or stop breastfeeding 3-5 days later, significantly reduce jaundice or recede; bilirubin has dropped to more than half of the original level; again after breastfeeding, child might appear slight jaundice or increased, when to consider breast milk jaundice.

Good prognosis of breast milk jaundice, children apart from jaundice, without any other do not apply, nor does it affect the normal growth and development, also found no cases of breast milk jaundice caused by kernicterus, you generally do not need to stop breastfeeding, but for clear diagnostic analysis should go to hospital doctors. Attention is the best stop breastfeeding when the bilirubin level is particularly high 3-5 day. This will enable more than halve the bilirubin in the blood, when Fu again when breastfeeding, bilirubin in the blood may be mild \"rebound\", but no more than the original levels, then will gradually subside, which also help to clear diagnosis of breast milk jaundice. Stop when feeding the baby formula milk breast milk, while mother the milk out on time, to maintain full of milk secretion, retreat to continue breastfeeding after fed infant jaundice. Jaundice of light, to the children drinking glucose water, regression of jaundice can be helped.