Treatment of Rhesus factor disease

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A badly affected baby can have an exchange transfusion, via the umbilical cord, as soon as it is born, or even while still in the womb. This corrects the anaemia and gets rid of the bilirubin. Exposure to intense ultraviolet light soon after birth converts the bilirubin in the skin to a form that is harmless to the brain.