Neonatal jaundice can goes down itself after having phototherapy for 6 day's.......?

Question

My son was born 2 weeks ago then he had increasing jaundice so doctor took the test for Glucose 6-pd allong with liver function test finally results was that times are 13 bilirubin and d-6-pd was deficient but we did mistake we took out the child from the hospital after 2 days when we took the lft test again the bilirubin was at 24.4 so doctor advised us to admit the child in the hospital for photo therepy after six days his bilirubin came down from 24.4 to 15 then we discharged him by dr's advise now i think he still having yellow skin and yellow eyes do you think its normal........?

Answer 1

as long as it is going down not up then you are doing better but try a little sunlight (not alot) by sitting his swing or something next to a closed window for a few minutes a day also the biliblankets work well and they make your baby look like a cute little glow worm also try feeding the baby more to push the bilirubin through his system faster the more you feed the more they poo it out

Answer 2

I would ask your doctor about a billiblanket, my wife and i were in same situation with our youngest. He had to go back to hospital when it came down they sent us home with a Billiblanket.