What can pregnant mothers do to avoid neonatal jaundice?

If you want to know how to avoid neonatal jaundice, you must know what jaundice is. Neonatal jaundice is mainly divided into three situations, physiological, breast-feeding and pathological, and most of them belong to the first two. It is called physiology because it is not a disease but a physiological phenomenon.

When the baby is in the womb, there are many immature red blood cells to adapt to hypoxia. After leaving the mother, there will be excessive bilirubin secretion. In addition, the baby's liver metabolic function is not fully developed, and it is impossible to handle so much bilirubin, which will form jaundice.

However, breast milk jaundice is caused by insufficient breast feeding or some components in breast milk. Just like physiological jaundice, it has no other effects on infants except the terrible symptoms of infant jaundice. When the baby's liver function gradually improves, bilirubin can decompose itself, and with the help of blue light, these two kinds of jaundice will soon subside.

Pathological jaundice is a problem of liver or other body functions. Therefore, after the baby has jaundice, it is necessary to check the body and rule out whether it is pathological jaundice before determining the response plan.

At present, there are no absolute preventive measures for neonatal physiological and breast-feeding jaundice, so we can only say that we should pay more attention, because as mentioned earlier, this is a normal physiological phenomenon, but in order to prevent it, mothers can also pay attention to some matters in advance to reduce the probability of jaundice.

How to avoid neonatal jaundice? 1) Avoid taking medicine during pregnancy.

Taking drugs, whether traditional Chinese medicine or western medicine, drugs that can be used by pregnant women or banned by pregnant women, will increase the burden on the liver and kidney organs of pregnant women, and the participation of the fetus in the body circulation will also have the risk of damaging liver and kidney functions.

Reduce the risk of premature delivery

The cause of jaundice is that bilirubin in the body is too high, the baby is just born and the liver decomposition function is not perfect. It is conceivable that if it is a premature baby, the bilirubin value is definitely high and the liver function is not perfect, so the probability of jaundice in premature babies is high. For the sake of the baby's health, Ma Bao must have a physical examination on time when she is pregnant, and be careful to protect herself. Don't have a caesarean section in advance in pursuit of auspicious days.

3) timely breastfeeding

Many people say that since there may be substances in breast milk that raise your baby's bilirubin, why not eat milk powder? The incidence of breast milk jaundice is not common in the end, but starving children will increase bilirubin. At the same time, the mother's colostrum is rich in precious nutrients such as lactoferrin, which can improve the baby's physical resistance and promote physical development. Mother's breast milk is the first line of defense to help babies fight jaundice.

4) Pay attention to neonatal hemolysis.

Neonatal hemolysis is one of the main causes of pathological jaundice. After understanding the pregnancy situation, parents should check whether they belong to the combination that children are prone to hemolysis. For example, mother O type corresponds to father A.B.AB, and mother RH negative corresponds to father RH positive, so that early detection and early medical treatment can be achieved, and the probability of baby suffering from hemolysis can be reduced.

If there are any measures to prevent jaundice, it is to protect the baby in the fetus, try to improve the baby's physique, and do a good job in prenatal examination. When the baby's organs mature and decompose too much bilirubin, jaundice will naturally subside.