Can Gardenia jaundice cure jaundice in children?

Gardenia jasminoides is a plant of the Rubiaceae family. It is both ornamental and medicinal. It has a good effect on clearing away heat and detoxifying, protecting the liver and promoting bile secretion. It is often used in traditional Chinese medicine to treat icteric hepatitis, diabetes and other diseases. Therefore, many mothers believe that Gardenia can reduce jaundice, so they use Gardenia to reduce jaundice for their own children, but can Gardenia really cure jaundice in children? Let’s find out below.

1. Can Gardenia cure jaundice in children?

Jaundice in children can be divided into two categories: physiological jaundice and pathological jaundice. Physiological jaundice has a good prognosis and generally does not require special treatment. Pathological jaundice progresses rapidly and should be treated promptly according to the cause to avoid sequelae. Traditional Chinese medicine treats pathological jaundice in children mainly by promoting diuresis and reducing jaundice, which can be divided into two methods: clearing away heat, promoting diuresis and reducing jaundice and warming the middle and removing dampness and reducing jaundice. Gardenia is bitter and cold in nature.

The lung and triple burner meridians have the effects of purging fire and relieving restlessness, clearing heat and removing dampness, cooling blood and detoxifying. They can be combined with other Chinese medicines to treat jaundice of damp-heat syndrome. For jaundice of phlegm-dampness syndrome, since children have weak spleen and stomach, Gardenia jasminoides is too bitter and cold, which can easily cause diarrhea in children, so it is not recommended to use it.

2. How to treat jaundice in children

1. Light therapy

Phototherapy is an adjunctive therapy for the treatment of hyperbilirubinemia in children using fluorescent light. The ultraviolet light used in phototherapy changes bilirubin into a form that is more easily excreted from the body through your baby's urine.

2. Exchange blood therapy

If the jaundice in children is severe or the bilirubin level continues to rise after phototherapy, the baby will need exchange transfusion therapy. Exchange transfusion therapy can effectively reduce bilirubin, replace sensitized red blood cells and alleviate anemia, but it should be noted that exchange transfusion therapy may produce some adverse reactions in the process of treating pediatric jaundice, so this operation requires strict control by professional physicians.

Gardenia jasminoides cannot cure jaundice in children, as it can easily cause diarrhea, vomiting, etc. in babies. In fact, this phenomenon occurs in babies

You can also use drug treatment, but it is better to use it under the guidance of a doctor, as all medicines are toxic. Breastfeeding can also be used.