Hello everybody,
I have a problem I would like your opinion about.
How long can breastmilk jaundice last? Assuming a healthy, thriving, fully
breastfed infant, with indirect bilirubinemia, when would you do more
tests, and which, how often check bili levels?
Every once in a while I encounter a baby several weeks old, still
jaundiced, sometimes with quite high bili levels. Often these babies are
referred to me by LLL leaders or LC after they were recomended to stop bf
for 48 hrs (by their doctors). Sometimes it is a telephone consultation.
How would you handle this?
Another related question - at what bili level can the baby be circumcised?
(This is Israel, so this is very important.)
I'll be really happy to read your answers because I could't find any
information that was helpfull, and I just used my common sense so far (it
worked...)
  Mira

Mira Leibovich MD