Neterpljachki – purchasing the phototherapy lamp for Dep “IOPG”

80% of premature born children, especially those whose weighе's less than 1 500 grams at birth, have jaundice, which has to be treated. For the effective and non-aggressive treatment there is a special lamp of phototherapy, its rays have a specific wavelength and turn the dangerous bilirubin into such a form, which can be easily extracted from the body, therefore this lamp serves the functionality of the liver.

In a week or two, the baby's own liver will start functioning and thus we save the baby's brain from the toxic influence of the bilirubin and also this way allows to escape the blood transfusion. Everybody knows what jaundice is yellow skin. However, not everyone knows what causes it. In the body of each of us there is a yellow substance called bilirubin. The cause of jaundice in newborns is that their body is not very good at output bilirubin, and it accumulates. High levels of bilirubin causes brain damage that may be irreversible,and then the way to treat such situations is the substitutional blood transfusion (it is when the baby's blood is fully replaced with the blood of the donor) - is there a need to explain how dangerous is such an aggressive treatment. In a grown up liver the bilirubin is transformed into such a form, which can easily be extracted, but this process activates in several days, but in the body of the premature born child this process takes a week or two.

The phototherapy lamps started to be widely used after nurses of one maternity hospital in England noticed that children laying in the sun have less jaundice. The more light is of the body - the better for health it is.

In today's world there phototherapy lamps that are based on semiconductor elements (LED) with a wavelength range, which effectively and quickly reduce bilirubin without drying and without overheating the baby's skin. With this lamp child can be treated with phototherapy in incubator. This lamp is very mobile and can be used in conjunction with others, it increases the surface exposure and bilirubin will decline within a few hours. Just imagine how little kids of Rivne RCH will be thankful to you, because thanks to a lamp they will not suffer from the negative effects of "evil bilirubin!"