This is called jaundice. Newborn jaundice occurs when a baby has high levels of bilirubin in the blood. Bilirubin is a yellow substance that the body creates when it replaces old red blood cells.

Postnatal hyperbilirubinemia; progressive newborn jaundice. Severe neonatal hyperbilirubinemia (bilirubin >95th percentile for age in hours). If unmonitored and untreated, bilirubin neurotoxicity ...

Usually this kind of difficult jaundice is caused by an immune reaction between mum's and baby's blood groups, but not in ...

All newborn infants are at risk for newborn jaundice, which when unmonitored or untreated can progress to excessive bilirubin levels. Because newborn infants are discharged as healthy from well ...

Infant jaundice occurs because the baby's blood contains an excess of bilirubin (bil-ih-ROO-bin), a yellow pigment of red blood cells. It usually occurs because a baby's liver isn't mature enough ...

Beth Hawken (L) and Eleonora Forbes' (R) research included reviewing how jaundice ... of bilirubin [a yellow substance produced when the body breaks down old red blood cells] in the baby's blood ...

Neonatal jaundice is a condition that affects 60 percent of term and 80 percent of pre-term infants. Some ethic groups have a higher incidence. It occurs when a baby has a high level of bilirubin ...

Newborn baby with neonatal jaundice and high bilirubin hyperbilirubinemia under blue UV light for phototheraphy. (representative image) Source: iStockphoto / phakimata/Getty Images/iStockphoto New ...

The condition occurs when a baby has a high level of bilirubin in their blood, a yellow pigment resulting from the natural breakdown of red blood cells that causes the tint seen in jaundice.

Neonatal jaundice is a condition that affects 60% of term and 80% of pre-term infants. Some ethnic groups have a higher incidence. It occurs when a baby has a high level of bilirubin in their ...