You have. Done well to move so much stuff..here chief.
Let me expose some practices done in the rurals ..here in Nigeria
In the past and even in the present day in some rural areas, mothers feed their children pawpaw water.. Newborns ooo. They believe it will reduce the jaundice. It doesnt.
Some spread their babies in the sun, usually early morning sun, this predisposes the baby to dehydration and other infections.
Mothers who use camphor for baby cloth preservation will also predispose their babies to this because it will also act like the drug @bhoa mentioned.
It is also known that breastfeeding the baby enhances enterohepatic circulation (blood flow to the liver from the stomach) which help to reduce the bilirubin concentration.
So while the child is receiving photo therapy (which should be measure Ultra violet light) the child also gets food, breast or artificial pending on the mother lactating and if the child can suck.
@bhoa .. I miss neonatology, did you get to do EBT?😂😂😂
Thank you chief for stopping by..
Well, I didn't do EBT in neonatology.. I escaped it as much as I could.
However, I did it in haematology-oncology unit