All issues > Volume 12(4); 1969

Original Article

J Korean Pediatr Soc. 1969;12(4):193-200. Published online April 30, 1969.

Unconjugated Hyperbilirubinemia in Breast-fed Infants

Young Key Han¹, Byung II Kim¹, Doo Hong Ahn¹, Dong Sup Han¹

¹Department of Pediatrics, Kyungpook National University, School of Medicine

Abstract

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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