My NB has jaundice and i have heard breastfeeding causes the jaundice level to rise is it true? Any mummy can advice how to reduce the jaundice level?

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Hi mummy..its common for NB to have jaundice..just a matter whether the range is low or high. You may wish to check with your PD whether it is breastfeed jaudice or just jaudice. It different. Infact, it is recommended to continue to breastfeed NB frequent to help bring down the jaudice level. Apart from sunbath, giving give partial FM to help to bring down much faster. If not just continue to breastfeed also ok. Other remedies recommended by old folks which which do works for me are 1) bath baby with yellow flower seed in the day day which you can get it from TCM. 2) Bath with guinness stout mix with water. (This method super fast. It was my confinement lady's method. Amazingly, my LO's jaudice drop by half in just a week). My friend also shared with me giving fresh goat milk helps too. Her LO's jaundice drop to zero in a week. All these are of course depends on your comfort level. You may wish to read the links below too. http://www.kkh.com.sg/HealthPedia/Pages/ChildhoodIllnessesJaundice.aspx https://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000995.htm

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