Jaundice (Hyperbilirubinemia)

Yu Ming was detected having Jaundice on the third day with Bilirubin reading at 244 and he was sent for photo therapy treatment for the whole night. Next morning, Yu Ming's Bilirubin reading has dropped to 177 but the pediatrician advised us to continue the photo therapy until 5pm and we only discharged from the hospital after the treatment.

On Yu Ming's 5th day, we noticed that he seemed so listless and hardly woke up all the time. We decided to go to the nearest government clinic on the next day (6th day) to do the Bilirubin blood test and the result was shocking us as the reading had increased again to 212. The nurse told us that government hospital will only accept the admission for the photo therapy if the reading is reaching 250 points and ask us to come back again to do the blood test on the second day. We was worried and decided to go back to Island hospital for the photo therapy and again Yu Ming had spent another night of photo therapy treatment in the hospital. The Bilirubin reading dropped to 127 on the next morning and we felt so relieved and also noticed that our boy had became more energetic and active after the treatment.