#jaundice

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“A Nigerian mom found out the hard way that jaundice is still a dangerous disease in Africa—but now she’s putting an end to the infant disease with her new tech startup, making solar-powered cribs.

After her traumatic experience with jaundice as a new mother, Virtue Oboro pivoted 180° in her professional life, in an effort to help prevent the terrifying situation from befalling other moms.

Oboro’s son, Tombra, was just 48 hours old when he had to be rushed to the NICU, suffering from a build-up of bilirubin, which causes yellow skin and can lead to permanent damage or even death.

The treatment is fairly simple... blue-light phototherapy.

Virtue’s hospital had no phototherapy devices, so Tombra had to receive a risky emergency blood transfusion. Her son would make a full recovery, but Virtue was changed by the experience.

“I felt like some of the things I experienced could have been avoided,” the visual designer told CNN. “I thought, is there something I could do to make the pain less for the babies and the mothers?”

What could a visual designer do? She designed the Crib A’Glow and named her new company Tiny Hearts.

The portable, deployable phototherapy unit is powered by the sun, and costs one-sixth the price of a normal phototherapy crib—and is manufactured in her homeland of Nigeria.

Virtue’s husband had some experience working with solar panels before, so he lent a hand to the visual designer, who was busy navigating the unknown waters of a new profession. She worked with a pediatrician through the design process to ensure all the details would benefit the tiny babies.

Two years ago, Crib A’Glow picked up a $50,000 grant from Johnson & Johnson through the Africa Innovation Challenge, and the Crib A’Glow can now be found in 500 hospitals across Nigeria and neighboring Ghana. Already it has been used on 300,000 babies.

Virtue, who has also become a 2022 awardee for The Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation, says a further 200,000 babies were saved from jaundice by deploying the cribs to rural areas—no hospitals or electricity needed.” -via Good News Network, 3/9/22

[dixieandherbabies]

Dixie and her babies.

Sadie bug wants all of the attention!

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doodle dump - some miscellaneous scribbles from this month

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sorry im obsessed with naming your cat jaundice. would you happen to have pictures of the lad/lass

don’t be sorry this made me laugh so hard i started choking. i call him jaun (rhymes w john) for short or jaunny when he’s being silly. he’s a modest 16 lbs but i’m p sure he’s only going to get bigger. some top jaundice hits:

[stupid-red-pants]

jax has jaundice

thank you for coming to my ted talk have a nice day beautiful person

[artemishasthebluez]

markiplier jaundice orb

[jermaeda]

i would like to know, theoretically, if possible. do you know if? if there could even, POSiblly,,.. pplease... can you please tell me if. please/ stop . pink ..................... catboy jerma be pink .

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Doctors were there to manage the workforce, removing workers who were so heavily jaundiced that they were likely to die, and then to obscure the cause of death on certificates and avoid paying compensation where possible.

As the war progressed, protective equipment would be issued to munitions workers, and they would be given free milk and subsidised meals to counteract the poison, with shifts reorganised to move women around to give them breaks from the most dangerous areas.

"Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History" - Philippa Gregory

[selkaycik]

the yellow in her eyes is jaundice

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Hello. My male 4 yo cat has jaundice caused by Mycoplasma Haemofloris. We have been to a vet and found out that he has FIV and FeLV. I want to give him a chance at life but I don't want him to suffer if the chances are slim. Anyway, the question I have is about jaundice in cats. It looks terrifying and I cannot tell if it's getting better or worse. At what point is jaundice lethal? Do particular parts of the body become yellowed in late stage jaundice?

Hi, Sueanoi here,

Jaundice itself isn't a disease, rather it's a sign of a disease. Something is wrong to CAUSE jaundice. Basically Jaundice just means "the body becomes yellow".

Depending on what causes it, the cat may succumb to that reason rather than the jaundice itself. For example, a hemolysis (breaking down of red blood cells) that is caused by an infection of Mycoplasma (or other causes, even) , will cause 1. anemia and 2. jaundice (because the inside of the red blood cells are spilled into the blood stream, and it's yellow). The cat MAY succumb to ANEMIA, but not from the yellowing of the body. So in this case we wanna tackle the infection AND the anemia that comes from the infection. Once they are solved, the body stops being yellow.

Another cause of jaundice is liver problems. Bile is yellow, and if it's circulating in the blood, the body looks yellow (this is grossly simplified). The cat MAY succumb to liver failure, but not from being yellow. So we wanna tackle the liver problem. Once that is solved, the body stops being yellow.

Anywhere that blood circulates to can become yellow. The eyes, the mouth, any skin that is thin enough to see through, the urine.

[deliciouswinnertimemachine]

why does timm have jaundice 😭

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Day 386

[dixieandherbabies]

Dixie and babies.

The sleepy face of Sadie!

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the more memorable of my OCs, according to some of my tumblr followers

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#jaundice,#cats

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im not abraham lincoln im abraham thinkin