According to Dr Adnaan Mustafa, Consultant Pediatrician at The Nairobi West Hospital, infant jaundice or neonatal hyperbilirubinemia is a common condition, particularly in babies born before 38 ...

Jaundice is a condition that causes the skin and the whites of the eyes to turn yellow. Infant jaundice occurs because the baby's blood contains an excess of bilirubin (bil-ih-ROO-bin), a yellow ...

The wide-ranging review also looks at the diagnosis of newborn jaundice ... Though it is common and often resolves on its own, jaundice can cause very serious problems if not treated at the ...

since it can lead to conditions like acute bilirubin encephalopathy and kernicterus that can damage the infant's brain and ...

The visual detection of jaundice was not a common trigger ... highlighting ABO hemolytic disease as a key cause of early neonatal hyperbilirubinemia. Seventeen neonates had total serum bilirubin ...