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16 sie 2019 · If phototherapy is initiated to infants with cholestatic jaundice, skin reactions may occur both in the form of the so-called “bronze” baby syndrome and in purpuric and bullous rashes [100,...
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.
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 ...
26 sie 2024 · Sister Jean Ward’s initial observation and practice that sunlight had an ameliorative effect on hyperbilirubinemia led to the development of phototherapy devices. The sun emits blue-green light in the spectrum needed to most effectively convert bilirubin to its water‐soluble isomers for excretion.
6 lip 2021 · Two studies (621 infants) compared the effect of filtered‐sunlight exposure to other sources of phototherapy in infants with confirmed hyperbilirubinemia. Filtered‐sunlight phototherapy (FSPT) and conventional or intensive electric phototherapy led to a similar number of days of effective treatment (broadly defined as a minimal increase of ...
21 lut 2019 · Ebbesen, F., Madsen, P., Stovring, S., Hundborg, H. & Agati, G. Therapeutic effect of turquoise versus blue light with equal irradiance in preterm infants with jaundice.
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.
