Around age seven to eight months, some babies start turning a little yellow. This is known as carotenemia.
This is because their diet becomes heavy in yellow vegetables such as squash, carrots, green or yellow beans, and yes, it does turn babies yellow!
The beta-carotene in these vegetables, a precursor of vitamin A, accounts for the vegetables’ yellow-orange color and it gets deposited in baby’s skin.
There is absolutely nothing unhealthy about it, but you might have to explain this over and over again to Grandma, and she may keep on bugging you even after you’ve seen your doctor. So be prepared.
Carotenemic skin is easily distinguished from jaundice, which is pathologic and indicates liver (or occasionally gallbladder) disease. Look at the eyes and gums.
Liver disease that is advanced enough to cause skin discoloration (jaundice) will also cause turn the eyes and the gums yellow.
In carotenemia the eyes stay white and the gums stay pink.
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