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Breast milk-induced jaundice is a well-known entity in otherwise healthy breast-fed newborns (5). Unconjugated bilirubin characteristically increases after the fourth day of life and peaks around the second week. The pathogenesis of breast milk-induced jaundice is largely unknown although some hypotheses have become quite popular such as a cholestatic effect of breast milk pregnane-3,20- diol (2), or the glucuronyltransferase blocking effect of large amounts of long chain fatty acids in breast milk with high lipase activity (15).
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Demirkol, M., Bohles, H. (1994). Breast Milk Taurine and its Possible Influence on the Development of Breast Milk Induced Jaundice of the Neonate — A Hypothesis. In: Huxtable, R.J., Michalk, D. (eds) Taurine in Health and Disease. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 359. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1471-2_42
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