Talk:Neonatal jaundice
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[edit] Merge proposal
- Ok, whereas I think the section in Crigler-Najjar syndrome doesn't have much to add. The neonatal jaundice article has the common and less common differential diagnoses of neonatal jaundice... just needs some clean-up and referencing --like adding the AAP guidelines[1] and explaining how Tx is based on risk factors and age of the neonate. Nephron T|C 05:07, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] The cause
I'd really like to be sure, so I have to ask: would somebody please tell, what is the USUAL,ORDINARY cause of neonatal jaundice? Is that the conjugated and non-conjugated bilirubine too? Or just one of them? I'm unable to decide that, because they were both mentioned in that differential diagnosis tree. I know about the red cell's destruction and even the Liver enzymes these are not active enough after birth, but these must point at two: conjugated and non-conjugated bilirubine presence at the blood stream at the same time. But in some articles I read that there's only one inducting factor, so if someone has a decent answer, please post me. Thank you. Olineast 15:33, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
As far as I've read, the usual, ordinary cause is unknown: "presumably a consequence of metabolic and physiological adjustments after birth" to quote the article. However, in severe cases, unseen diseases exacerbating the jaundice may also be present (along side the unknown, normal cause of neonatal jaundice). In the article, these diseases are categorised first as part of a tree, then listed. Some are more common than others, though.
Therefore, in most newborns, jaundice "reflects a normal transitional phenomenon" (emedicine, emphasis added http://www.emedicine.com/ped/topic1061.htm), but generally only in severe cases you might suspect that some other (pathological) cause is present, and you might start looking through the "list". Does that make sense? Lxs602 17:56, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
