Neonatal jaundice 11mg/dl, whether it is normal or not needs to be judged according to the time of jaundice in newborns, the age of the day and whether it subsides, etc. It may be normal physiological jaundice or abnormal pathological jaundice.
1. Physiological jaundice: it is mostly due to the excessive production of bilirubin in the body at the time of birth, resulting in a temporary increase in serum bilirubin level, which can be subsided by itself. Generally speaking, jaundice appears within 2~3 days after the birth of a newborn, reaches the peak in 4~5 days, and the value of jaundice in the peak period is mostly not more than 12mg/dl, and can subside in 7~10 days, generally not more than 2 weeks.
In this case, the jaundice value of 11 is normal.
2. Pathological jaundice: it is caused by hemolysis, infection and other factors that lead to abnormally high serum bilirubin concentration in the body of newborns, and generally cannot subside by itself.
Jaundice appears within 24 hours after birth, and the value of jaundice will continue to rise. At the same time, jaundice may appear to recurrently subside reproducibly. Or it may be accompanied by abdominal distension, fever, poor milk intake and porcelain-white stools, all of which may belong to pathological jaundice.
In this case, the jaundice value of 11 in newborns is mostly an abnormal phenomenon. You should bring your newborn to the hospital in time.
Newborn jaundice 11mg/dl, there may also be other reasons, it is recommended to go to the hospital in time, improve the examination to clarify the cause of the disease, under the guidance of the doctor to give targeted treatment or treatment.