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To: JanyBlueEyes who wrote (4857)	1/9/1999 3:16:00 PM
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JAUNDICE & BILIRUBIN REFERENCES lalecheleague.org - Easy to read article about a mother's experience of having an infant with jaundice: "......My husband and I had not noticed our son's jaundice. It was our midwife who noticed a yellowish cast to his skin on a routine thirty-six hour home visit. She suggested that we take him to see a doctor the next day. Early the next morning the doctor walked with us out into the bright Arizona sunshine so that he could get a good look at the baby's color. He poked his skin gently and told us that our baby did look jaundiced......." -------- BASIC LAY DESCRIPTIONS OF JAUNDICE: * baby-care.com - "Why is my baby jaundiced?" : "The word jaundice comes from the French word"jaune" which means yellow. Almost half of all full term babies andabout 75-80% of pre term infants will become jaundiced or appear slightly 'yellow or orange' tinged. The most common form of jaundice in the newborn period is called "physiologicaljaundice". The cause of physiological jaundice is twofold...." -- www2.medsch.wisc.edu. - Jaundice/Hyperbilirubinemia: "Hyper" means high; "emia" means in the blood. Hyperbilirubinemia is a high level of bilirubin in the blood. Jaundice is the yellow color to the skin that is often seen in the first few days after birth. The yellow color is due to bilirubin........." -------- MEDICAL REFERENCES mssm.edu - Sinai Journal of Medicine on Neonatal Jaundice - Perspectives on Neonatal Hyperbilirubinemia - October 1994 -- Extensive Site on Hyperbilirubinemia from a Certified Neonatal Phototherapist Course Online: peponline.com - Comprehensive - covers Hyperbilirubinemia, Treatment & How to manage a Phototherapy Program -------- TESTING NEWBORNS Message 4304903 - Frequency of Testing - From The American Academy of Pediatrics: .....It is not known at what bilirubin concentration or under what circumstances significant risk of brain damage occurs or when the risk of damage exceeds the risk of treatment. Concentrations considered harmful may vary in different ethnic groups or geographic locations and may be lower outside North America or northern Europe. Reasons for apparent geographic differences in risk for kernicterus are not clear...... -- techstocks.com - Due Diligence on newborn blood testing: "......So, I contacted several people in the health care industry including medical technologists, hospital medical laboratory supervisors, neo-natal care specialists, pediatricians, and a pharmacist. By law, hospitals are required to do a PKU test on newborns (requires drawing blood). Therefore, no matter how great the CCSI device is, blood will always be drawn from newborns......" -- techstocks.com - Questions & Answers -- techstocks.com - Frequency of Testing for Jaundice