Thankyou Pat for a very clear explanation.
Karleen Gribble
Australia
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From: "Pat Young" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, October 12, 2007 5:59 AM
Subject: Re: meconium thing


> Meconium contains (according to my old Taber's): "salts, liquor amnii,
> mucus, bile and epithelial cells."  Meconium doesn't actually contain red
> blood cells, just the by-products of their breakdown, one of which is
> bilirubin.
>
> Babies drink amniotic fluidand anything in it (like skin cells) , baby
> digests and stores up waste in the colon.  The bile contains bilirubin.
> More bilirubin is made as baby breaks down excess blood after delivery.
> That also goes into the intestines/colon.
>
> If baby doesn't stool, the bilirubin tends to be reabsorbed thru the
> intestinal walls back into the blood stream, where it goes to the immature
> liver (who doesn't want to process bilirubin yet), so the bilirubin gets
> dumped into the blood stream, leading to jaundice.
>
> Enough teaching today, have to go make dinner :-) Pat in SNJ
>
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