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General & SystemicMild
Neonatal Jaundice
Neonatology · General & Systemic
Mild
Severity
Very common — affects the majority of newborns to some degree in the first week of life
Prevalence
No
Contagious
Neonatology
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🔬Causes & Risk Factors
- 1Most commonly results from the normal physiological immaturity of a newborn's liver combined with a higher rate of red blood cell breakdown typical in the first days of life. Other contributing causes include blood type incompatibility between mother and baby
- 2prematurity
- 3insufficient feeding leading to dehydration
- 4and
- 5less commonly
- 6underlying liver disease or genetic conditions affecting bilirubin processing. Breastfeeding difficulties in the first days of life can worsen jaundice by reducing bilirubin elimination through stool.
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