bili light

A common treatment of neonatal jaundice is the bili light.

Bili lights aren't usually used to treat jaundice in adults.

Why are some babies treated with bili lights?

Treatment with bili lights usually takes 24 to 48 hours to complete, at which point the newborn's liver can handle the bilirubin itself.

Bili lights may also be used to treat newborn jaundice (hyperbilirubinemia).

Soft eye shields are placed on the baby to protect their eyes from damage that may lead to retinopathy due to the bili lights.

Bili lights are a form of phototherapy.

Skin Problems Image Gallery Bili lights help newborns recover from jaundice.

In newborns, jaundice is typically a temporary condition, so the bili lights just need to do their job until the infant's liver functions kick in.

Those blue beams are called bili lights, and they help prevent newborns from getting brain damage or other complications from a condition known as newborn jaundice.

If the bili lights don't work, a blood exchange transfusion can be used, in which the infant's blood is slowly drained and replaced with donor blood or plasma.

A bili light is a phototherapy tool to treat newborn jaundice (hyperbilirubinemia) which in higher levels causes brain damage (kernicterus), leading to cerebral palsy, auditory neuropathy, gaze abnormalities and dental enamel hypoplasia.