Preventing Carotenemia.
Rule of thumb: If your skin turns orange, eat fewer carrots.
Carotenemia means the yellowing of the skin from an excess carotene.
In most instances it is associated with large consumption of carotene in the diet. It has been confused with jaundice.
Treatment for Carotenemia
By discontinuing the use of high quantities of carotene the skin color will return to normal.
Avoid carrots, squash, sweet potato, pumpkin, spinach, beans. Also, egg yolks and corn yams.
But this may take up to several months for this to happen.
Infants with this condition should not be taken off prescribed vitamin supplements unless advised to do so by the child’s pediatrician.
Breastfed babies can also develop Carotenemia if their mother is eating a lot of foods that are high in carotene.
Avoid homogenized food. Instead, eat pureed food.
In general, Carotenemia is not a harmful condition and you don’t have to restrict these foods from your granddaughters’ diet forever.
It will likely go away over time, as your granddaughter gets older and eats more of a variety of foods.
Jaundice? No.
The fact that her eyes aren’t yellow is a good sign that she isn’t jaundiced.
If she is otherwise well, there likely isn’t anything else causing her skin to appear yellow.
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