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Bookmark or Share- Premature birth - Diagnosis and treatment - Mayo ClinicTo treat infant jaundice, your baby may be placed under a set of special lights. These lights help your baby's system break down extra bilirubin. That's a yellow-colored substance that builds up in the body if the liver can't process it all.
- Infant jaundice - Diagnosis & treatment - Mayo ClinicMild infant jaundice often disappears on its own within two or three weeks. For moderate or severe jaundice, your baby may need to stay longer in the newborn nursery or be readmitted to the hospital. Treatments to lower the level of bilirubin in your baby's blood may include: Enhanced nutrition.
- Bilirubin test - Mayo ClinicThis test is commonly used to measure bilirubin levels in newborns with infant jaundice. Check for a blockage in the bile ducts in the liver or the gallbladder. Look for liver disease, particularly hepatitis, or monitor disease progression.
- Vitamin D for babies: Are supplements needed? - Mayo ClinicDoes my baby need a vitamin D supplement? Answer From Jay L. Hoecker, M.D. Vitamin D supplementation depends on whether you breastfeed your baby or how much formula with vitamin D your baby drinks.
- Congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) - Mayo ClinicCongenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) is a rare condition that happens in a baby before birth. It occurs early in pregnancy when a baby's diaphragm — the muscle that separates the chest from the abdomen — fails to close as it should. This leaves a hole in the diaphragm. The hole is called a hernia.
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