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Babies in LMIC are at increased risk for jaundice for a number of reasons, including poor access to maternal care during pregnancy, increased numbers of blood disorders causing jaundice, and increased risk of infection or birth trauma.
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.
28 sie 2018 · Nearly 60 years ago, Sister Ward astutely noted that sunlight decreased visible jaundice. Subsequent studies by Cremer and colleagues 9 led to the development of electric-powered phototherapy devices, 10,11 which remain the standard treatment for hyperbilirubinaemia.
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.
8 sie 2024 · Detectable adverse effects of phototherapy are of prime importance to neonates, their families, and the clinicians treating them. To assess what the adverse clinically detectable effects of newborn phototherapy are, one has to discriminate hyperbilirubinemia severity from concurrent photon exposure.
A women’s health educator at Southern Health wanted to know if there was any evidence that sunlight helps to reduce physiological jaundice in healthy term infants.
