The care recommended for the 6 week old baby with a bilirubin level of 15
and no other signs of ill health, seems questionable at best.
If the baby is sick, this treatment is ignoring the problem, and dealing
only with the symptom, which is jaundice.  In addition, the recommended
treatment, like feeding formula and prune juice to increase stooling in a
young infant, could be harmful in itself.  More tests and examinations are
needed to determine whether this jaundice is a benign sign of a
self-limiting condition, or a sign of a potentially life-threatening one.
The treatment should follow logically from the diagnosis.
If the baby is well, the treatment described is not only unnecessary, it is
still also possibly harmful.
Time to go hunting for a second opinion, I'd say.  And if the doctor really
has said all these things, then the doc should be updated on infant
nutrition and on jaundice.  If the doc hasn't, then there is some kind of
communication problem, and either way the baby could be suffering because of
it.
Rachel Myr
Kristiansand, Norway
Going no mail for a couple of days to attend the first ever joint Nordic
conference on breastfeeding, in Stockholm (!)

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