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preterm babies and IUGR and sick baby ex infection &acidosis& hemolysis
Low birth weight and premature infants are at major risk for exaggerated hyperbilirubinaemia and jaundice that can lead to bilirubin encephalopathy. Phototherapy is the most common treatment for neonatal hyperbilirubinaemia and could be most effective in preventing the sequelae of hyperbilirubinaemia if initiated prophylactically.
Pretermaturity (< weeks gestational age) and low birth weight infants (birth weight < g) are at high risk for exaggerated hyperbilirubinaemia and potential bilirubin encephalopathy.
low birth weight /preterm
high risk (ABO incompatibility in parents , haemolytic disease in relatives,,,,,)
early jaundice (before 24 h of birth )
low birth weight
premature babies
neonatal physiological jaundice
preterm babies
low birth weight
high risk babies
Low birth weight baby
premature infants
significant risk factors for jaundice
Infant with hyperbilirubinaemia and jaundice
Low Birth Weight
Premature Infant
Vitamin D Deficiency
Neonatal physiological jundice
porphyria
when we examined neonate, and noted there jaundice is up to chest level. we should start phototherapy despite no tsb back yet
