jaundice | ADHD Information

I am just curious if anyone else's ADHD child or non ADHD child had jaundice. We left the hospital on the Monday. Brandon was admitted on the Thursday for jaundice. He stayed for the weekend.Neither of my kids had jaundice. Out of curiosity, are you blood type O and your husband/child blood type A or B? The timing sounds like an ABO issue.My girl had it only a little bit. Our son did not experience jaundice at birth.

[QUOTE=vickie]Neither of my kids had jaundice. Out of curiosity, are you blood type O and your husband/child blood type A or B? The timing sounds like an ABO issue.[/QUOTE]

I am type O. I'm not sure what blood type either Brandon or his father are. I asked Brandon's doctor once and he said that they don't tell parents anymore.

 

My ds was extremely jaundice.  He was under the billy lights for almost a whole week.  We could only take him out for 20 minutes every three hours to feed him.

Oh my gosh, Vickie, you should be a professor!   You know so much about everything!  Anyway, my type O baby had jaundice, my type A baby did not.  I am type A.  My ADHD child is type A.

cr12345mr,

I only know clinical lab stuff because that is what I went to college for, and did for 5 years. I moved into clinical research after that. I know very little of things not in the biological and clinical sciences areas (except maybe about planted aquariums ). That is interesting about your O baby having jaudice but not your A baby. There are other antibodies and antigens on red cells and just the issues of immature liver in the newborn. I do not think that jaundice could be an issue for ADHD like symptoms unless it were severe and treatment wa delayed.

[QUOTE=cr12345mr]Oh my gosh, Vickie, you should be a professor!   You know so much about everything!  Anyway, my type O baby had jaundice, my type A baby did not.  I am type A.  My ADHD child is type A.
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I know!!!  She always totally impresses me with her knowledge as well!

Nope no jaundice on any of my four children....ADHD or not....

The most common jaundice in newborns is when the mom is type O and the child is A or B. Type O people have antibodies to A and B these cross the placenta into the babies circulation. These antibodies can cause some of the baby's red cells to be destroyed. The hemoglobin from the red cells is broken down into bilirubin which is bound by albumin in the blood and further broken down by the liver for disposal. In a newborn, the liver is imature and bilirubin can build up in the blood stream (it is yellow, so the appearance of jaundice), and if it gets real high it can cross into the brain and cause damage. All they have to do is put the baby under lights (the bilirubin is destroyed by light) and make sure it does not get too high (they can also inject albumin and vitamin K if needed). Sorry for the long explanation.

I am type O and my antibodies are the hemolytic type (as a clinical lab scientist student we tested ourselves for practice) and my husband is type A, so we watched my youngest real close when she was born.

Dillon was jaundice at birth, took a few days to get normal. Jaundice means something wrong with the liver right? What did the doctors say it was from?