It's allowing us to finally understand why money is so important to Nucky, why his habits as a father and husband were terrible, where his sense of ethics originated, and how he learned to be so vicious in order to get what he wants.
Bilirubin levels are usually the highest when the baby is 3 to 5 days old. At a minimum, babies should be checked for jaundice every 8 to 12 hours in the first 48 hours of life and again before 5 days of age.
But the conditions that lead up to the rare condition are far more familiar. The root cause is excessive jaundice, a well-known condition in which the levels of a substance called bilirubin build up in a baby's blood faster than it can be broken down in the liver.This condition generally poses little threat to health, beyond its characteristic yellowing of the skin and whites of the eyes.ut when bilirubin levels in the blood spike high enough, the toxic byproduct can move out of the blood and into brain tissue. This opens the door to kernicterus -- and, in turn, brain damage. Before people knew that high levels of bilirubin could cause brain damage...