Drinking glucose water in infants does not remove jaundice.
Jaundice in infants is a clinical symptom of yellowing of the skin due to elevated bilirubin in the blood, which is mainly due to insufficient ability of the liver and gallbladder to metabolize bilirubin, hemolysis, infection, biliary atresia, etc. It is necessary to give treatment to reduce jaundice according to the cause of the disease. Drinking glucose water helps urination and does not remove jaundice.
If the liver and gallbladder metabolism is insufficient, you can give liver enzyme inducers, such as sodium phenobarbital and other drugs to reduce jaundice; hemolytic jaundice, such as ABO hemolysis, need to be given according to the condition of the immune sealing, blood exchange therapy and other treatments; jaundice caused by infections, such as cytomegalovirus infections, you can be given antiviral, reduce the yellowing of the symptomatic treatment; biliary atresia needs timely surgical treatment.
When jaundice occurs in infants, it is recommended to consult a doctor for treatment under the guidance of a doctor, and not to take medication or prescriptions on your own. The above medicines should be used according to the doctor’s prescription.