Sentences with phrase «of hyperbilirubinemia»

Screening for hyperbilirubinemia:... All newborn infants should be assessed for risk of hyperbilirubinemia and undergo bilirubin screening between 24 and 48 hours.

Placing a babyís bed near a sunny window filters out ultra-violet rays (protecting against sunburn) and may also decrease the chances of hyperbilirubinemia.

The American Academy of Pediatrics in the policy statement «Management of Hyperbilirubinemia in the Newborn Infant 35 or More Weeks of Gestation,» states that sunlight exposure «is not recommended.»

Recommending «frequent feeding» and improvement of latch as solutions to insufficient breast milk intake only works if a mother has the volume of breast milk / colostrum to meet a child's metabolic requirement and for an unacceptably high number of mothers, «frequent feeding» and latch correction will not be enough to prevent brain - threatening levels of hyperbilirubinemia, hypernatremic dehydration or hypoglycemia, all of which can occur by 7 % weight loss.

To check out the lead, a group of Israeli medical scientists, and colleagues at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, analyzed DNA from 371 newborns in a population of Mediterranean - Jewish descent — a group with a high incidence of hyperbilirubinemia.

All newborn infants should be assessed for risk of hyperbilirubinemia and undergo bilirubin screening between 24 and 48 hours.