| Unconjugated Hyperbilirubinemia in Breast-fed Infants |
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Young Key Han, Byung II Kim, Doo Hong Ahn, Dong Sup Han |
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Department of Pediatrics, Kyungpook National University, School of Medicine |
| Unconjugated Hyperbilirubinemia in Breast-fed Infants |
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韓永基, 金炳鎰, 安斗洪, 韓東燮 |
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慶北大學校 醫科大學 小兒科學敎室 |
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| Abstract |
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Recently, we have seen four cases of exaggerated neonatal jaundice associated with breast feeding. The hyperbilirubinemia was of the indirect reacting type, and in all, exhausative investigations for known causes of hyperbilirubinemia, including that of the hemolysis or blood group incompatibilities, were negative. Discontinuation o£ breast feeding was followed by rapid reduction in serum bilirubin level, and two o£ these cases were documented further by a second rise in serum bilirubin level after a fall had occurred when breast feeding were resumed. This second rise in bilirubin level after resumption of breast feeding may be a good evidence that breast feeding was the causative factor.
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