1Professor of Medical Surgical Department, S.C.P.M College of Nursing, Gonda, U.P.
2Sainik College of Nursing, Tajopur, Mau, U.P.
Neonatal jaundice is a yellowish discoloration of the skin and other tissues of a newborn. Hyperbilirubinemia in the first 24 hrs often results in hemolytic diseases of the newborn erythroblastosis fetalis an abnormal rapid rate of RBC destruction. The causes of neonatal jaundiceare the breakdown of fetal hemoglobin, prematurity, trisomy syndrome, use of oxytocin in labor, presence of bruising cephalo hematoma and a family history of neonatal jaundice. In India neonatal jaundice, contributes 4.55% death in neonatal period.
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