A cross-sectional study of the etiological factors of neonatal jaundice

The present study documents the etiological factors of neonatal jaundice. A field survey was carried out in two different hospitals on 30 subjects. An extensive and effective questionnaire set was prepared to conduct this survey. Thirty fully completed responses were accumulated from the mothers of the neonate jaundice patients. This study reveals many insights of neonatal jaundice. There is a positive relation between gestational diabetes of mother and Bilirubin level of the neonate. This correlation is found that 53% ± 7% of the mother having Gestational Diabetes may birth to neonate with Bilirubin level of 10-20 mg/dl. Overweight mothers are mostly subjected to have caesurae baby and there is proportional relation of high probability to give birth of neonate with Bilirubin level. Mother’s Hb level of blood and Bilirubin level of child have an inverse relation with Pearson Correlation of -0.15 (P=0.05) of significant at the 0.05 level. Most of the premature babies are under weight and all of them have high Bilirubin level of clustered around 11.56 mg/dl. And 75% of the affected neonates cannot do exclusive breast feeding. 97% ± 3% are cared through phototherapy, among them 23% faces milk-indigestion.