What is the cause of jaundice in newborns?

First, there is a tendency to pathological jaundice will retreat slowly, baby pathological jaundice, respectively, by infectious and non-infectious factors caused by two reasons. Infectious factors are more common in neonatal hepatitis, neonatal sepsis, neonatal hepatitis is mostly in utero by virus infection, which cytomegalovirus infection is the most common cause of neonatal infection factors, other also include hepatitis B, rubella, toxoplasma, etc., many types of infection may lead to. Second, breast milk jaundice children, mother's milk contains pregnancy 3 alpha and 20 beta diol inhibits the activity of liver glucosyltransferase, breast milk unsaturated fatty acid content is high, breast milk jaundice children, mother's milk unsaturated free fatty acid content increased, liver glucosyltransferase inhibition, these will lead to jaundice disappear slowly.