Jaundice is a very common condition that happens to babies. It's a condition that causes a yellowish tinge to appear ...
Depending on the cause, the symptoms can be transient and barely noticeable or long-lasting and severe. Jaundice symptoms can ...
Screening for severe neonatal hyperbilirubinemia is integral to newborn care. Predischarge risk assessment relies on documentation of visual jaundice: age at onset and progression; identification ...
The resulting jaundice usually passes uneventfully ... potentially leading to severe inflammation, organ failure and death.
Rarely, an unusually high blood level of bilirubin can place a newborn at risk of brain damage, particularly in the presence of certain risk factors for severe jaundice but only around 1 in 20 ...
(representative image) Source: iStockphoto / phakimata/Getty Images/iStockphoto New research shows jaundice treatment at home is safe and effective Severe jaundice can result in permanent brain ...
Wellbeing Foundation Africa has partnered with Reckitt, a health company, and disability activist Oscar Anderson to launch ...
Postnatal hyperbilirubinemia; progressive newborn jaundice. Severe neonatal hyperbilirubinemia (bilirubin >95th percentile for age in hours). If unmonitored and untreated, bilirubin neurotoxicity ...