Our objective was to identify the association between maternal diet with Chinese herbal medicines and prolonged jaundice of breast-fed infants. Healthy infants at 25 to 45 days of age were eligible for enrollment into this prospective study. Jaundice was defined as a transcutaneous bilirubin (TcB) value ≥ 5 mg/dL. A questionnaire survey asking feeding type, stool pattern, and maternal diet was ...

Objective: To study the value of ALT / ALP ratio (R value) for the differential diagnosis of hepatocellular jaundice and cholestatic jaundice and compare the diagnostic sensitivity of R values and the traditional D / T (DBIL / TBIL) values. Method: We randomly collected 336 cases patients with confirmed diagnosis of dominant jaundice from January 2004 to December 2006 in our hospital and record...