Safety and efficacy of filtered sunlight in treatment of jaundice in African neonates.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Evaluate safety and efficacy of filtered-sunlight phototherapy (FS-PT).

Methods

Term/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

SUBMITTER: Slusher TM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4531268 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature