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Why do newborn babies get jaundice?
Jaundice in newborn baby
Jaundice happens when there is too much of a substance called bilirubin in your baby’s blood. This makes a baby’s skin, the whites of their eyes and the inside of their mouth look yellow.
Bilirubin is made naturally in the body, when red blood cells that aren’t needed any more are broken down. Usually, the liver changes the bilirubin into a form the body can get rid of as waste. But sometimes the body makes more bilirubin than it can process. When that happens, bilirubin builds up in the body and makes the skin and the whites of the eyes look yellow.
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