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Since the 1960s, several reports have been presented to explain how the ingestion of human milk is
related to neonatal jaundice. Recently, the jaundiced neonates whose mother’s milk contain sub-
stances (eg, pregnane 3a, 20β-diol, lipoprotein lipase, free fatty acid, β-glucuronidase etc) facilitating
the reabsorption of unconjugated bilirubin in the neonatal intestine through the enhancement of the
enterohepatic circulation, were called the breast milk... |