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- Title
Relationship among body weight, feeding methods and jaundice of one week old neonates.
- Authors
Yei Chung Chuang; Ying Ju Chang
- Abstract
Background: Physiologic jaundice is a common and transient problem for neonates after birth. However, pathologic jaundice is me major cause of readmission of neonates after discharge. Objective: Relationship among the weight loss, feeding patterns, and jaundice of neonates born in the first week. Methods: Ninety-three neonates born were enrolled. The transcutaneous huirubin was measured with a noninvasive Bilicheckat 11 time after birth. Data analysis was performed with Pearson correlations, student t-test, one way analysis of variance, and simple linear regression. Results: Result showed mat in the first week of life. Neonatal weight loss readied the maximum on me fourth day. The jaundice level measured reached its peak at 120 hours respectively. The highest percentage of weight loss is in the exclusive breast feeding group on the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th days. The jaundice level were significantly higher on the 1st, 2nd, 5th, 6th, and 7th in the exclusive breast feeding group. Percentages of weight loss on 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th days were significantly correlated with the jaundice level at 120 hours. At 120 after birth, 10.4% of variance of jaundice levels were explained by the percentage of weight loss on the 4th day respectively. Conclusion: Generally, physiological jaundice is harmless to newborn, We should keep monitor of level of buirubin to evaluate jaundice.
- Subjects
BILIRUBIN; BODY weight; BREASTFEEDING; STATISTICAL correlation; INFANT nutrition; NEONATAL jaundice; T-test (Statistics); PATIENT readmissions; DATA analysis software; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; ONE-way analysis of variance
- Publication
Macau Journal of Nursing, 2014, Vol 13, Issue 1, p5
- ISSN
1681-1534
- Publication type
Article