What Are the Causes of Neonatal Jaundice?
Neonatal jaundice, a common condition in newborns occurs when a baby accumulates too much bilirubin in his body. Parent’s and caregivers will see a yellow discoloration in the baby’s skin and the white part of his eyes. In physiologic jaundice, the bilirubin is produced during the normal process of old red blood cells breaking down. According to Robin L. Watson, sixty percent of healthy newborns become jaundiced and almost all premature babies will develop it.
