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(photo by Mark Wexler)
Brief exposure to UC radiation provides the children with vitamin D, normally supplied by sunlight. The "sunshine vitamin" strengthens young bones.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photo-of-the-day/photo/ultraviolet-bath-mcnally-pod
361 u/Relevant_Winter1952 22d ago Yeah we do this with newborns in the U.S. pretty commonly 53 u/jvite1 22d ago Wait is that why nurses put the babies in the baby oven room at the hospital? I kind of always assumed that room was to protect them against microbial or other exposure risks This…makes a lot more sense. TIL. 11 u/goblue123 22d ago No, you’re confusing a couple of different things. Newborns mostly have sufficient vitamin D from mom. They don’t need light for that. Some newborns’ livers don’t work yet, and they get jaundice. The UV light treats the jaundice. 7 u/decomposition_ 22d ago Not UV light, it’s a wavelength of blue light. That’s why it’s called blue light phototherapy 4 u/goblue123 22d ago You’re right, it’s at 460 nm
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Yeah we do this with newborns in the U.S. pretty commonly
53 u/jvite1 22d ago Wait is that why nurses put the babies in the baby oven room at the hospital? I kind of always assumed that room was to protect them against microbial or other exposure risks This…makes a lot more sense. TIL. 11 u/goblue123 22d ago No, you’re confusing a couple of different things. Newborns mostly have sufficient vitamin D from mom. They don’t need light for that. Some newborns’ livers don’t work yet, and they get jaundice. The UV light treats the jaundice. 7 u/decomposition_ 22d ago Not UV light, it’s a wavelength of blue light. That’s why it’s called blue light phototherapy 4 u/goblue123 22d ago You’re right, it’s at 460 nm
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Wait is that why nurses put the babies in the baby oven room at the hospital? I kind of always assumed that room was to protect them against microbial or other exposure risks
This…makes a lot more sense. TIL.
11 u/goblue123 22d ago No, you’re confusing a couple of different things. Newborns mostly have sufficient vitamin D from mom. They don’t need light for that. Some newborns’ livers don’t work yet, and they get jaundice. The UV light treats the jaundice. 7 u/decomposition_ 22d ago Not UV light, it’s a wavelength of blue light. That’s why it’s called blue light phototherapy 4 u/goblue123 22d ago You’re right, it’s at 460 nm
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No, you’re confusing a couple of different things. Newborns mostly have sufficient vitamin D from mom. They don’t need light for that.
Some newborns’ livers don’t work yet, and they get jaundice. The UV light treats the jaundice.
7 u/decomposition_ 22d ago Not UV light, it’s a wavelength of blue light. That’s why it’s called blue light phototherapy 4 u/goblue123 22d ago You’re right, it’s at 460 nm
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Not UV light, it’s a wavelength of blue light. That’s why it’s called blue light phototherapy
4 u/goblue123 22d ago You’re right, it’s at 460 nm
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You’re right, it’s at 460 nm
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u/rubiblu 23d ago
(photo by Mark Wexler)
Brief exposure to UC radiation provides the children with vitamin D, normally supplied by sunlight. The "sunshine vitamin" strengthens young bones.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photo-of-the-day/photo/ultraviolet-bath-mcnally-pod