Background: Neonatal jaundice is the most common cause of newborns' hospitalization. This study aimed to examine various maternal, childbirth, and neonatal factors affecting the neonatal skin bilirubin level and severe jaundice. Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted on 1066 healthy neonates with a gestational age of 35 weeks or ov...

A three-week-old boy with Down syndrome presented with poor feeding and jaundice. He had been born at term by normal delivery at home. The pregnancy had been uneventful and the mother had declined antenatal testing so the diagnosis of Down syndrome was made in the postnatal period. The infant required oxygen at birth and was admitted to the neonatal unit for a few days after birth. He started t...

Background: Infant jaundice is one the most common causes of hospitalization in infant in the first month of birth, which is defined an abnormal increase in blood bilirubin levels. Exchange transfusion is the recommended treatment for neonatal jaundice who do not respond to phototherapy and experience dangerous complication of jaundice and signs of kernicterus. However, this treatment may lead ...

This study aims to identify the implementation of various infant massage therapies in neonates reduce bilirubin levels using scoping review method. The research method used this is a that follows JBI methodology guidelines with searches conducted several databases, namely PubMed, Web Science, EMBASE, and Google Scholar. results showed 12 articles involving 665 five countries, nine randomized co...

Jaundice is a common phenomenon in neonates and significant cause of morbidity mortality. Early detection jaundice still challenge. Moreover, existing invasive techniques are stressful, painful for the newborn, non-invasive devices expensive. Therefore, we investigate characteristics non-contact neonatal system based on skin colour analysis machine learning using graphical user interface (GUI)....

Care of the high-risk neonate usually refers to the low-birth-weight infant or the sick term newborn. Whereas hyperbilirubinemia is certainly a matter of concern in these infants, the decisions that must be made regarding jaundice in the high-risk neonate are, in general, less complex than those that must be made for the healthy full-term infant. For the term and near-term infant, shorter hospi...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to examine the relationships among maternal and infant characteristics, breastfeeding techniques, and exclusive breastfeeding initiation in different modes of birth using structural equation modeling approaches. METHODS We examined a hypothetical model based on integrating concepts of a breastfeeding decision-making model, a breastfeeding initiation model,...

Jerold Lucey studied newborn infants in the United States in the twentieth century. In the 1960s and 1970s, Lucey studied phototherapy as a treatment for jaundice [2], a condition in infants whose livers cannot excrete broken down red blood cells, called bilirubin, into the bloodstream at a fast enough rate. In addition to his work in jaundice [2], Lucey was the editor in chief for the journal ...

Neonatal jaundice [2] is the yellow discoloration of the skin and eyes due to elevated bilirubin levels in the bloodstream of a newborn. Bilirubin is a byproduct of the breakdown of red blood cells. Jaundiced infants are unable to process bilirubin at a normal rate or they have an abnormally high amount of bilirubin in their bloodstream, resulting in a buildup of the yellow colored bilirubin. T...

A study of 893 births was undertaken to determine the incidence of prolonged neonatal jaundice. 55% of these babies were breast feeding on discharge from the maternity hospital. Jaundice lasting for 3 weeks or more was found in 12 breast-fed term babies (2-4% of all breast-fed babies), and in no bottle-fed infant. 3 of the jaundiced babies gained weight poorly in the first 3 weeks of life, but ...