Baby massage ameliorates neonatal jaundice in full-term newborn infants

Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 223, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 97-102

  Chen, Jun ^a   Sadakata, Mieko ^b   Ishida, Mayumi ^b   Sekizuka, Naoto ^c   Sayama, Mitsuko ^b  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL AND DENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Sekizuka Hospital of Shibata   (Japan)

Author keywords

Baby massage; Enterohepatic circulation; Neonatal jaundice; Transcutaneous bilirubin level; Vagus nerve

Indexed keywords

BILIRUBIN;

APGAR SCORE; ARTICLE; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; BIRTH WEIGHT; BREAST FEEDING; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DEFECATION HABIT; DELIVERY; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASSAGE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN CARE; NEWBORN JAUNDICE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHOTOTHERAPY;

ALGORITHMS; APGAR SCORE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BREAST FEEDING; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; JAUNDICE, NEONATAL; MALE; MASSAGE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; MOTHERS; TERM BIRTH;

EID: 79251508906     PISSN: 00408727     EISSN: 13493329     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1620/tjem.223.97     Document Type: Article

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