Question 146 · LEK · Breastfeeding-associated jaundice
Jaundice connected with breast-feeding is probably the result of:
- A. quick intestinal transit of meconium.
- B. high content of lactose in the first milk, which impairs bilirubin conjunction with glucuronic acid.
- C. delayed first feeding and not enough feeding.
- D. inadequate newborn’s intestinal bacterial colonization.
- E. mother’s intake of drugs which cleave the ester bonds of bilirubin glucuronide.
Hint
Early breastfeeding-associated jaundice relates to how much milk the newborn actually receives in the first days.
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