[A clinical study on the effect of kaisailu on alleviating neonatal jaundice]

The effects of kaisailu defecation on alleviating neonatal jaundice were studied. 203 case of newborns fed with total mother breast milk were divided into two groups: experimental group (100 cases) received routine treatment and kaisailu (10 ml per rectum) control group (103 cases) only received routine treatment. The findings were as follows: excretory time of meconium in experimental group was more ahead than that in control group; the excretory meconium volume of the first time was obviously higher in experimental group; time of meconium changed yellow was distinctly shorter and the bilirubin index (measured by transcortical bilirubin method) lowered more rapidly in experimental group than that in control group. The results suggested that kaisailu defecation can alleviate neonatal jaundice.