Is there any cure for babies turning yellow after birth.?

Answer 1

sounds like jaundice.yeah put them under ultraviolet lights. Sounds like the bilirubin is building up in there system and their liver cant keep up. Sometimes it is common during nursing. My son had to stay over one night in the hospital under the bililights because of jaundice.

Answer 2

1

Answer 3

Turning yellow after birth is a symptom of jaundice. Jaundice is caused by the liver not being able to break down a substance called biliruben the way its supposed to. The best thing to do without medical intervention is let the baby spend time in the sun naked or with just a diaper for about 15minutes every hour or so. Just enough to get UVs without a sunburn. Something in the UVs helps breakdown biliruben buildup.

Mild Jaundice is fairly common and if you take the baby out often it should clear up quickly.

Answer 4

this is called jaundice.....

Jaundice is a yellow discoloration of the skin and the white part (the sclera) of the eyes. It results from having too much of a substance called bilirubin in the blood.

Bilirubin is formed when the body breaks down old red blood cells. The liver usually processes and removes the bilirubin from the blood.

Jaundice in babies usually occurs because their immature livers are not efficient at removing bilirubin from the bloodstream.

Call your doctor if your baby becomes jaundiced.


If your doctor is aware of the jaundice and you are observing your child at home, call your doctor if the jaundice spreads to the arms or legs or if it lasts beyond 1 week.

Call your doctor if you don’t feel comfortable watching your child at home or if you have any other questions or concerns.
When to go to the hospital

If your child appears ill to you (if he or she is refusing to eat, seems excessively sleepy, or has floppy arms and legs) or has a temperature of 100.4°F or higher, you should go to your hospital’s emergency department.

Go to the hospital if your child seems to be having difficulty breathing.

If your child stops breathing or begins turning blue, administer rescue breaths if you are trained in CPR. Send someone to call 911 immediately.

Newborn Jaundice Treatment


Self-Care at Home

Sunlight helps to break down bilirubin so that a baby's liver can process it more easily.

Placing a child in a well-lit window for 10 minutes twice a day is often all that is needed to help cure mild jaundice. Never place an infant in direct sunlight.

If the bilirubin level is too high, the child may need to be placed under a special type of light. This treatment is called phototherapy.

Sometimes, such lights can be set up at your home with careful monitoring.

The doctor (with the parent's help) will decide whether to begin a child on phototherapy.

If an infant's bilirubin levels are very high or if the child appears ill, the baby will most likely be admitted to the hospital for treatment.

Medical Treatment

Jaundice is most often treated with phototherapy. This involves placing the baby on a warmer beneath special lights.

These lights are able to penetrate a baby’s skin and affect the bilirubin within the child. The light changes bilirubin into lumirubin, which is easily handled by the baby's body.

This treatment may seem much like a visit to a local tanning booth. Special goggles or a shade is placed over the baby's eyes to shield them from the lights.

Two factors help decide whether or not to start phototherapy: the age of the child and the level of bilirubin.

Younger children with higher bilirubin levels will more often require treatment.

The decision to begin phototherapy depends on the opinion of your pediatrician and on your comfort level.

If standard phototherapy doesn’t work to reduce a baby’s bilirubin level, the doctor may try other treatments. For example, the baby may be placed on a fiber optic blanket and an additional bank of lights may be added.

If these treatments don’t work, babies most often have a serious condition that is causing their jaundice. Physiologic jaundice (the most common form) almost never requires treatment beyond phototherapy.

When all other treatments have failed to reduce the bilirubin level enough, the last resort is an exchange transfusion. In this treatment, the baby’s blood is exchanged with donated blood. This is a very specialized procedure and is done only in facilities capable of caring for critically ill children.

so i would call your doctor and make an appointment!!

Answer 5

Unless their bilirubin numbers are extraordinarily high, above 18 to 20, then most pediatricians will recommend 10 minute exposure to sunlight several times throughout the day. Breastfeeding on demand will also help clear the BR from the blood. Keep lots of natural light in the home, without direct sunlight.

The doctor should test, and if the numbers maintain above 18 for more than a few hours, then a bilirubin light will be required. Maintaining high numbers for a long period of time can sustain some damage to the baby, so please contact the dr asap.

Answer 6

This Site Might Help You.

RE:
Is there any cure for babies turning yellow after birth.?

Answer 7

A lot of babies are born with a yellowish/orangish tint after being born, especially when they are premature. It's called jaundice. The doctors will check the bilirubin level at the hospital, and if it is over a certain amount, they will put them under a bili-light. Sometimes if it's a subsantial amount but not really bad, they will send you home with a bili-blanket, which is a light that looks like a heating pad, that you put against your baby under their clothes. The light will take the bilirubin level back down where it needs to be.

Answer 8

Yes, the yellow is called jaundice. They have a bed called a Bilibed, it looks like a tanning bed for babies, it has ultraviolet lights. You lay the baby in the bilibed at naptime and it helps breakdown the bilirubin. Sunlight also helps, but you don't want to expose the baby to too much sunlight either. I had to do it with my son, I wasn't sure about it at first, but 3 days later he was fine. Good luck and congrats on the baby.

Answer 9

Thats called jaundice and it happens to a lot of chidren after birth. They are put under ultraviolet lights to cure it. Sometimes this results in the baby becoming a little dark-like a tan, but it will go away.

Answer 10

Its called jaundice and its not usually a serious thing.
My daughter had it mildly after she was born and they just put her under a UV light (they called it a billy blanket or something like that) and depending on the severity of the yellowing determined how long the baby was exposed to the UV light.

Answer 11

If its a mild case you can put your baby in the sun a little at a time throughout the day. If the jaundice gets to bad you will have to take your baby to the hospital to be put under a special light. Good luck to you, keep in good contact with you doctor.