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What are the symptoms of jaundice?
Jaundice Symptom
The most recognizable symptom of jaundice is a yellow, orange, or greenish discoloration of the skin, whites of the eyes, mucous membranes, and bodily fluids caused by the accumulation of bile pigment. Other symptoms of jaundice include pale brown feces and itching. The itching, or pruritis, can sometimes become quite severe and cause the [...]
What Causes Jaundice
Jaundice Causes
Jaundice in itself is not a disease but a sign occurring as a result of many other diseases. Jaundice is a condition wherein blood in a patient contains high levels of the chemical bilirubin and this in turn causes yellowish staining of the skin and in the whites of the eyes.
Jaundice is associated with [...]
What is yellow jaundice?
What is yellow jaundice
Yellow jaundice is a yellow discoloration of the skin. It can be best recognized in the eyes and under the tongue. Sometimes it is accompanied by dark urine. In almost all instances is it caused by a liver condition that must be evaluated by a physician.
Yellow jaundice usually happens to a baby [...]
Can jaundice hurt my baby?
Can jaundice hurt my baby?
Some degree of jaundice is normal in every infant. However, jaundice can be dangerous if the bilirubin reaches too high a level. If the blood and skin are filled with bilirubin, it can be deposited in the brain where it can lead to hearing loss and damage the developing nervous system. [...]
Why do newborn babies get jaundice?
Jaundice in newborn baby
Jaundice happens when there is too much of a substance called bilirubin in your baby’s blood. This makes a baby’s skin, the whites of their eyes and the inside of their mouth look yellow.
Bilirubin is made naturally in the body, when red blood cells that aren’t needed any more are broken [...]
Is jaundice contagious?
Is jaundice contagious?
Jaundice is a symptom of other underlying conditions, rather than a disease in itself, and as such it is not contagious. Jaundice develops when bilirubin levels in the blood rise, resulting in yellowing of the skin, whites of the eyes, and bodily fluids. Bilirubin is formed after the red blood cells are broken [...]
What is jaundice
What is jaundice?
Jaundice is a yellow discolouration of the skin and membranes, often most visible in the eye where the white conjunctiva becomes yellow, due to a pigment called bilirubin which is made in the liver. It‘s normally excreted in the bile, which mixes with the contents of the intestines and is passed out through [...]
Cottage cheese vaginal discharge what is this?
Cottage cheese vaginal discharge
Glands within your vagina as well as cervix create tiny portions of fluid. That fluid runs out of the vagina on a daily basis, carrying out old cells that have lined the vagina. It is the body’s method of maintaining ones vagina in good health as well as clean. This discharge is [...]
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