Pediatrics, Neonatology & Primary Care

Biography

Biography: Moloud Fakhri

Abstract

Neonatal jaundice is a prevalent clinical problem, particularly in the Asian region. Nowadays neonatal jaundice treatment methods, including phototherapy and blood transfusion, are associated with various complications. Since the use of medicinal plants for the prevention and treatment in traditional Iranian medicine is divided into the written and verbal practices. The aim of this study is to determine the neonatal jaundice treatment of newborns based on verbal traditional medicine and evaluating the HPLC analysis and characterization of manna from some cotoneaster species and assesing preventive effect of Cotoneaster nummularioides Pojark mana drop on neonatal jaundice. This study was conducted in three sections, in the first part, the society of traditional healers in Mazandaran province was surveyed by a crosssectional study. In the second section, four species of Cotoneaster plants that their manna as a secondary metabolite was most frequently prescribed were selected for laboratory test like HPLC study and making oral drop from chosen specie.Then in the third section of present study the preventive effects of Cotoneaster nummularioides Pojark manna drop as selected specie on neonatal jaundice in A double blind, randomized, controlled, clinical trials was assayed. Cotoneaster manna was the most frequently used in verbal traditional medicine and Cotoneaster nummularioides Pojark manna with the highest effective ingredient mannitol was selected to make oral drop for using in a clinical trial. Generally use of one gram Cotoneaster nummularioides Pojark manna oral drop as a verbal Iranian traditional medicine treatment has preventive effect on the neonatal jaundice and can be planned to study as a hyperbilirubinemia treatment in future.