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6 lip 2021 · Given that sunlight is readily available, there is an urgent need to determine if sunlight is safe and effective at treating jaundice in babies in LMIC. Study characteristics We included three clinical trials containing 1103 infants from two countries.
Babies with jaundice are often treated with phototherapy lamps, which emit blue-green light that alters the bilirubin (yellow substance found naturally in the baby's blood) so that it can be more easily excreted. Sunlight emits light in a similar spectrum.
24 mar 2023 · Pictures of jaundice. Symptoms. Causes. Diagnosis. Treatment. Outlook. Yellowing of the skin, known as jaundice, is a common condition with newborns, which usually resolves as the baby’s...
Podcast: Sunlight for the prevention and treatment of hyperbilirubinemia in newborns. Some new-born babies will suffer from jaundice and there are several Cochrane reviews of possible ways to prevent or treat it. These were added to in July 2021 with a new review of the effects of sunlight.
28 sie 2018 · In The Lancet Global Health, Tina M Slusher and colleagues 1 show, in a rigorous study with clear results, that filtered-sunlight phototherapy (FSPT) can be as efficacious and safe as conventional intensive electric phototherapy (IEPT) for treatment of moderate-to-severe neonatal hyperbilirubinaemia in a simulated rural Nigerian setting. FSPT ...
Currently, there are well-established guidelines for the management of heart failure in the adult population, but an equivalent consensus in children is lacking. In the clinical setting, ensuring an accurate diagnosis and defining etiology is essential to optimal treatment.
16 sie 2019 · The publication described 13 premature infants with “physiological jaundice” (with birthweights [BW] 1460 to 3670 g), who had received sunlight irradiation for 2–4 h. In 11 of these 13 ...
