Search results
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.
6 lip 2021 · 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 colleagues1 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.
11 wrz 2024 · Abstract. More than 80% of newborn infants experience jaundice as a result of elevated bilirubin during the first few weeks after birth. In most cases, hyperbilirubinemia is physiologic, but persistent and extreme elevations can lead to serious long-term complications, such as kernicterus.
5 sie 2022 · Prevention of hyperbilirubinemia begins in pregnancy by recognizing and treating women who are at risk for developing antibodies to red cell antigens, which can lead to hemolytic disease of the newborn (ie, isoimmune hemolytic disease).
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.
With appropriate infant temperature monitoring, the use of FS-PT ≥5 hours per day, offers a novel, yet practical, inexpensive, safe, and efficacious strategy for the management of neonatal jaundice in areas of the world where no other treatment is readily or only sporadically available.
