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Done blood test and cbc test
Baby is 27 days old and jaundice is 8 mg/dl for forehead and 11 for chest. Done blood test and bilirubin test, total bilirubin is 10.62, direct is 0.74 and indirect is 9.88. Haemoglobin is 11.1 and monocytes is 12.2 and eosinophils is 7.2, please suggest what do I need to do. This there everything okay and the reports are normal or not.
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It might be breast milk jaundice. Which can persist upto 50 days. But G6PD deficiency should be ruled out. Get G6PD test done.
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start the baby with vitamin d3, calcium and iron supplementation.
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Need to blood report TSH and G6PD
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Hello ! It’s normal even bilirubin. Don’t worry . Continue breast feeding
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