The liver function test shows her liver is functioning.
There's ample milk, she's feeding well, so it's not breastfeeding jaundice.
They took her off breastmilk and put her on formula, and it didn't help - it's not breastmilk jaundice.
Munch, Celeste and I are of the same blood-group, so it's not blood group incompatibility jaundice.
The labour wasn't long and traumatic, so it was not jaundice caused by bruising etc, however tiny the chances of that.
In short, medical science cannot tell us what caused her jaundice.
The paedietrician narrowed it down to 2 rare occurances
- blood type the same but SOMEHOW still incompatible. Have to wait for antibodies to be gone.
- liver functioning, but SOMEHOW still cannot process the bilirubin.
Would that explanation satisfy you? Coz not, right?
Truth is, they DON'T have the answer.
Like my MIL. The doctors can operate, fix the bones back to the correct places, cast the leg, wash the wound, prescribe medicine, vitamins, creams whatever, but they cannot make the wound heal.
Like the H1N1 thingy - they can say it is dangerous "ONLY" for people with "pre-existing" conditions, and those "pre-existing conditions" covers a gamut of situations: pneumonia, heart problems, pregnant, very old, very young, high blood pressure, and well, i dunno... headaches? stress? overweight? underweight? And yet, we still have casualties who have no pre-existing conditions.
We don't really have the answers do we?
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