A Study of Neonatal Jaundice or Neonatal Hyperbilirubinemia

A Study of Neonatal Jaundice or Neonatal Hyperbilirubinemia

       Rashed Ahmad mir1 Seema Rani2,  , DR HK sidhu3

1.      PG student of medical laboratory sciences at Desh Bhagat University Mandi Gobindgarh, Punjab, India.

2.      Assistant Professor, Desh Bhagat University Mandi Gobindgarh, Punjab

3.      DR HK sidhu head of department school of paramedical sciences Desh Bhagat University Mandi Gobindgarh, Punjab

INTRODUCTION

Neonate or a new born is the first four (4) weeks of extra uterine life of a child. It is also considered as the 0 to 28 days life of a child. At the age, many critical events of life happen in the child’s life, which includes establishment of feedingpattern, bonds parents, high risk of infection, neonatal jaundice and most casesof birth defects are identified during this period. (WHO, 2021)Jaundice is one of the most common conditions that affect over half of new- born babies in the first week of life which requires medical attention to prevent future complications in the neonate or even death. Jaundice is either Physiological or Pathological. Neonatal Physiological jaundice occurs to 60% of term babies and 80% of preterm babies of 140 million yearly newborns worldwide experience jaundice in their first early stage of life approximately, it generally appears after 24hours of birth and disappears usually at 7 days if age, which is typically harmless. Whereas Pathological jaundice occurs within 24 hours of birth and last for morethan 7 to 10 days of age. (Olusanya, Kaplan and Hansen, 2018).