ArticlePediatrics2014
Safety and efficacy of filtered sunlight in treatment of jaundice in African neonates.
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- Sunlight for the prevention and treatment of hyperbilirubinemia in term and late preterm neonates.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2021Pooled it
- Effectiveness of FIBEROPTIC phototherapy compared to conventional phototherapy in treating HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA amongst term neonates: a randomized controlled trial.BMC pediatrics · 2021Trial
- Neonate screening for glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency in South Kivu, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.BMC pediatrics · 2026Article
- Cross-cultural beliefs and practices of caregivers regarding sunlight exposure for newborn jaundice: a scoping review.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Management challenges in the treatment of severe hyperbilirubinemia in low- and middle-income countries: Encouraging advancements, remaining gaps, and future opportunities.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2023Review
- Neonatal Jaundice: Knowledge and Practices of Healthcare Providers and Trainees in Southwest Nigeria.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2022Article
- Care-seeking behavior for neonatal jaundice in rural northern Nigeria.Public health in practice (Oxford, England) · 2020Article
- Neonatal Jaundice: Perception of Pregnant Women Attending Antenatal Clinic at a Tertiary Hospital in Southwest, Nigeria.Global pediatric health · 2020Article
- Review of bilirubin neurotoxicity II: preventing and treating acute bilirubin encephalopathy and kernicterus spectrum disorders.Pediatric research · 2020Review
- Knowledge of Neonatal Hyperbilirubinemia Among Primary Health Care Physicians: A Single-Center Experience.Clinical medicine insights. Pediatrics · 2019Article
- An analysis on treatment effect of blue light phototherapy combined with Bifico in treating neonatal hemolytic jaundice.Experimental and therapeutic medicine · 2018Article
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- Comparative analysis of nutritional guidelines for vitamin D.Nature reviews. Endocrinology · 2017Review
- A Survey of Practice and Knowledge of Refugee and Migrant Pregnant Mothers Surrounding Neonatal Jaundice on the Thailand-Myanmar Border.Journal of tropical pediatrics · 2017Article
- Facility-based constraints to exchange transfusions for neonatal hyperbilirubinemia in resource-limited settings.World journal of clinical pediatrics · 2016Review
- Heliotherapy for Neonatal Hyperbilirubinemia in Southwest, Nigeria: A Baseline Pre-Intervention Study.PloS one · 2016Observational
- Sister Jean Ward, phototherapy, and jaundice: a unique human and photochemical interaction.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2015Article
- Management of late-preterm and term infants with hyperbilirubinaemia in resource-constrained settings.BMC pediatrics · 2015Article
- Maternal satisfaction with a novel filtered-sunlight phototherapy for newborn jaundice in Southwest Nigeria.BMC pediatrics · 2014Observational
- Pattern and predictors of maternal care-seeking practices for severe neonatal jaundice in Nigeria: a multi-centre survey.BMC health services research · 2014Article
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Abstract
objectivesEvaluate safety and efficacy of filtered-sunlight phototherapy (FS-PT).
methodsTerm/late preterm infants #14 days old with clinically significant jaundice, assessed by total bilirubin (TB) levels, were recruited from a maternity hospital in Lagos, Nigeria. Sunlight was filtered with commercial window-tinting films that remove most UV and significant levels of infrared light and transmit effective levels of therapeutic blue light. After placing infants under an FS-PT canopy, hourly measurements of axillary temperatures, monitoring for sunburn, dehydration, and irradiances of filtered sunlight were performed. Treatment was deemed safe and efficacious if infants were able to stay in FS-PT for $5 hours and rate of rise of TB was ,0.2 mg/dL/h for infants #72 hours of age or TB decreased for infants .72 hours of age.
resultsA total of 227 infants received 258 days of FS-PT. No infant developed sunburn or dehydration. On 85 (33%) of 258 treatment days, infants were removed briefly from FS-PT due to minor temperature-related adverse events. No infant met study exit criteria. FS-PT was efficacious in 92% (181/197) of evaluable treatment days. Mean 6 SD TB change was –0.06 6 0.19 mg/dL/h. The mean 6 SD (range) irradiance of FS-PT was 38 6 22 (2–115) mW/cm2/nm, measured by the BiliBlanket Meter II.
conclusionsWith appropriate monitoring, filtered sunlight is a novel, practical, and inexpensive method of PT that potentially offers safe and efficacious treatment strategy for management of neonatal jaundice in tropical countries where conventional PT treatment is not available.
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