Yellow Baby

You may have heard or even seen for himself a new born baby is yellow all over the skin and lining of the eye. Yellow color can be seen several hours to several days after birth. Appearance not infrequently invited asked, why the baby's skin yellowing of the baby while others do not? What causes it? Is there anything wrong? And probably many questions accompany the emergence of a yellow color on newborn skin.

Neonatal jaundice (yellow newborn) is the condition of the appearance of yellow color in the skin and lining of the eye in newborns because of bilirubin (bile pigment) in skin and cornea as a result of increased levels of bilirubin in the blood (hyperbilirubinemia).

Yellowish color of the newborn is sometimes a natural occurrence (fisologis), sometimes described a disease (pathological).
Yellowing of the baby's natural (physiological) or not because certain diseases can occur in 25% to 50% new-born baby is the month (of pregnancy is sufficient), and the percentage is higher in premature babies.

Called the natural (physiological) if the color yellow appears on the second or fourth day after birth, and gradually disappear (at most) after 10 to 14 hari.Ini occurs because of liver function has not been perfect (mature) for processing of red blood cells.
In addition, the laboratory examination of bilirubin levels (bile pigment) in the blood does not exceed the limits for hazardous (set).

Parameters

There are some restrictions on the yellowish color of the newborn to assess the natural (physiological), or yellowish color associated with the disease (pathological), so that we more easily recognize it.

Broadly speaking, a new baby end of a yellowish limits because the process of natural (physiological) are as follows:

* The color yellow appears on the second day until the fourth day.
* In plain view, infants appear healthy
* Color yellow fade away after 10-14 days.
* Levels of bilirubin (bile pigment) in the blood of less than 12 mg%.


The yellowish color of the newborn that describes a disease (pathological), among others:

* The color yellow appears in infants before the age of 36 hours.
* Color fast spreading yellowish kesekujur baby's body.
* Color yellowish longer disappears, usually more than two weeks.
* Occasionally accompanied by skin pale (anemia).
* Levels of bilirubin (bile pigment) in the blood of more than 12 mg% in newborns and more than 10 mg% in preterm infants.


If there are signs like the one above (pathological), the baby is less active, for example, less breastfeeding, you should check immediately to the nearest doctor to get a check up and treatment.

In addition, several conditions that can be a risk to the baby, among others:

* Severe infections.
* The lack of the enzyme glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G 6 PD).
* Blood group incompatibility between mother and fetus
* Some genetic diseases (congenital disease or heredity).