Healing light for Neterplyachki

All know what is jaundice - a yellow color of skin. But not everyone knows what causes it. Everyone's body has a yellow compound called bilirubin. The cause of the premature born children's jaundice is their bodies cannot deduce the bilirubin and it accumulates. A high level of bilirubin causes brain damage, which may be irreversible. 80% of premature born children.0, especially those whose weight is below 1500 grams, have a jaundice that needs to be cured.

For the effective and non-aggressive treatment there is a special lamp of phototherapy, - its rays have a distinctive wavelength and turn the harmful bilirubin into such a form that can be easily deduced from the body, thus this phototherapy lamp executes functions of a mature liver . In 1-2 weeks of lamp's use, the liver of the premature born child starts to function normally and in such a way we save the brain of the baby from toxic damage of the bilirubin and also avoid the transfusion of blood.

With the help of such lamp the baby can be treated in its bed, laying on a special surface of the lamp. Moreover, if the lower irradiation type lamp is used along with the upper irradiation type lamp, it can increase the coverage and the level of bilirubin will decrease in hours. Just imagine, these little grateful kids will not suffer from the nasty bilirubin.

The department of premature born children of Chernivtsi Regional Clinical Children's Hospital already has one of these phototherapy lamps, but it requires some changeable elements to be replaced, and these elements are the substantial helpers in the jaundice treatment. Having 20 160 hrn. we can purchase 12 changeable lamps for the children's hospital, where they treat and nurse babies, thus providing a secure long-term treatment for the preemies.

Please, help us purchase these so needed changeable lamps for the saving phototherapy for the kids! Even one grivna is a huge contribution into saving little lives!