Signs of G6PD Deficiency
These are signs of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency.
Be alert if the child presents with the following symptoms, including jaundice, pale skin/pallor (RBCs destroyed), persistent/severe tiredness (due to low oxygen carrying capacity as a result of low RBC after being destroyed) and dark urine.
Ernest Beutler, M.D. (a leading expert in this field) has to say about neonatal icterus (jaundice), “Icterus neonatorum with no evidence of immunologic incompatibility occurs in some infants with G6PD deficiency. The jaundice may be quite severe and, if untreated, may result in kernicterus. Thus G6PD deficiency is a preventable cause of mental retardation, and this aspect of the disorder has considerable public health significance.”
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