Titre du document / Document title

Jaundice in the breastfed infant

Auteur(s) / Author(s)

GARTNER L. M. ; LEE K.-S. ;

Affiliation(s) du ou des auteurs / Author(s) Affiliation(s)

Departments of Pediatrics, and Obstetrics/Gynecology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, ETATS-UNIS

Résumé / Abstract

The relationship between breastfeeding and jaundice during the newborn and early infancy period is often confusing. Understanding the normal synthesis, metabolism, and transport of bilirubin in the newborn is the underpinning of effective diagnosis and management of jaundice in the breastfed infant. Breastfeeding jaundice is the exaggeration of physiologic jaundice of the newborn that occurs when the infant has insufficient milk intake, usually because of poor breastfeeding initiation and management. It is the neonatal equivalent of starvation jaundice in the adult. Breastmilk jaundice is a normal and regularly occurring increase in serum unconjugated bilirubin, which begins at the end of the first week of life and may continue for several weeks and even months thereafter in healthy, thriving infants. An increase in intestinal bilirubin absorption due to an unidentified factor in mature human milk is responsible for breastmilk jaundice.

Revue / Journal Title

Clinics in perinatology   ISSN 0095-5108   CODEN CLPEDL 

Source / Source

1999, vol. 26, n^o 2 (309 p.)  [Document : 17 p.] (73 ref.), pp. 431-445, pp. vii-viii [17 page(s) (article)]

Langue / Language

Anglais

Editeur / Publisher

Elsevier, Philadelphia, PA, ETATS-UNIS  (1974) (Revue)

Mots-clés anglais / English Keywords

Breast feeding ; Breast milk ; Pathophysiology ; Pathogenesis ; Prevention ; Jaundice ; Neonatal ; Newborn ; Human ; Newborn diseases ;

Mots-clés français / French Keywords

Allaitement ; Lait maternel ; Physiopathologie ; Pathogénie ; Prévention ; Ictère ; Néonatal ; Nouveau né ; Homme ; Nouveau né pathologie ;

Mots-clés espagnols / Spanish Keywords

Lactancia ; Leche materna ; Fisiopatología ; Patogenia ; Prevención ; Ictericia ; Neonatal ; Recién nacido ; Hombre ; Recién nacido patología ;

Localisation / Location

INIST-CNRS, Cote INIST : 19120, 35400008468333.0080