Any newborn with G6PD deficiency and struggling with high risk jaundice? What do I do?

I'm feeding expressed bm. We have been struggling for over 2 weeks now with the highest at Day 6 at 325 (treated with double blue therapy at KKH) and then it went down to 190 but now went up to 239. We have tried everything traditional (kayu sepang, tcm flower, air kundur, morn sun) and KKH's blue therapy but the readings are not improving. I'm really worried. Some ppl have been blaming my bm as they ran out of causes. #1stimemom #advicepls

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Sis I got this petua from my grandaunt and it works for all my kids when they were babies. Buy asam keping, cut in small pieces then boil until the water turns brown. Then bath your baby with the water (mix with warm water from the shower/tap) then clean with clean water. Make sure to rendam your baby for a bit. Your baby's jaundice will spike for 1-2 days then it will immediately go down, Insha Allah. Try this. Also, sun tan your baby for about 10 mins daily. I always do this before I shower my babies. Flowers from the sinseh does not work at all for my kids.

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4y trước

Insha Allah. Keep bathing your baby with that until the jaundice goes down ok

My baby had prolonged jaundice till he was 31 days. Had to be admitted for phototherapy and weekly checkup. We tried alot of traditional medications. There is a term called breastmilk jaundice. People was ‘blaming’ my breast milk too. But i didnt stop expressing breastmilk for him. Keep feeding him, try not to swaddle him during day naps so he will wake up and cry for milk. The readings went up and down during that period. But miraculously, on his 31st day check up, reading suddenly dropped to below 100 and he doesn’t need anymore follow up.

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4y trước

He is on exclusively expressed bm too. I was being stubborn not to feed formula and focused on increasing my bm supply instead.

hi. my baby jaundice was also 300 plus at 2days old. admitted to kkh for double blue light for 2days. he was discharged at level 159 and 3 days later at the polyclinic check her level went up again to 248 @ 7 days old. then 9 days old @ 273, 11 days old @ 238. now she's 153 @ 3 weeks old. she's on ebf. I didn't do anything special other than ebf her. just continue to feed your baby. we have appt again next week and hopefully it's below 100 by then. she gained 900grams since discharged.

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Keep feeding him milk. Baby should not skip feeding time. They only way to get rid of jaundice is when he flush it out! So keep hydrating him! If u don’t have enough bm, can consider fm! I mixed feed my baby during that period, cause i was a new mum, then not much bm at that time.

i bath my son w yellow medicine. i bought it from a chinese medical shop. it really helps. use it once and throw. do it for his morning and afternoon bath. do not use for him soup. it will go in 1-2 weeks time. 😊

hi did u eat ginger during ur confinement? heard ginger is not good for baby with jaundice. at 1st i wanted to BM too. due to my baby have jaundice we decided to give FM instead. It drop below 100 now.

4y trước

that was one of my Plan B. however, all the drs keep saying just cont to bm

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i gave my girl FM that time, i understand you might still want your baby to drink BM, maybe consider mixed feed? don’t worry so much okay. your baby will get better soon!

Hi, you can shower with kayu sepang it works well on my baby who jaundice was 295 at first. But i stop BF her till her jaundice really drops. It helps.

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Try to feed mix formula and bm, feed every 2hrs so baby can drink more and s*** more to s*** out the bilirubin.

Hi babe, buy honeysuckle flower from sinseh. It works well for my bby.