is this jaundice?
Cos my skin i am not sure is yellow or what, but anyway, jaundice
1. MUST have EYES AND SKIN yellow?or once u have yellow skin, u are jaundice?
2. Can person with fair( not white) skin after going under sun for too long cause the skin to be yellow?
3. Can you give me the different disease behind jaundice? And what are their symptoms.
4.Is jaundice whole body yellow or some body parts are staining with yellow colour?
5.Can it still be jaundice if there is no pain no symptoms of liver disesase, yet yellow skin?
6. how yellow is the jaundice yellow?
7. Jaundice are more common in what age group?
8. What are some other things that could cause skin to be yellow?
9.will the hair change colour in jaundice?
please ans them seriously, i certainly dont want long boring ans copied from any website..I knew the basics facts about jaundice already
!!!!These are my main question which not been answered!!!!
Answerers plz answer my question NUMBER BY NUMBER.
thnx. Jaundice is the yellow discoloration of the skin and sclerae (white of the eye) due to the deposition of bilirubin.
1. Look for the yellow color on the palm, sclera and under the tongue where they are more prominent
2. No
3.Diseases of the liver and the hepatobiliary tree are common causes of jaundice. Symptoms will vary.
4. At first only parts of the body become yellow. As the bilirubin increases more parts become yellow
5.Yes, it is possible that your jaundice is due to obstruction of the biliary tract
6.can be from light to dark yellow
7.No specific age group
8.Aside from the deposition of bilirubin your skin can also become yellow if you eat to much of foods rich in betacarotene
9. No
Hope this helps The first parts of your body to turn yellow will be the whites of your eyes (sclera) and certain parts of your mouth. If these areas look normal, it's not jaundice. Your hair wouldn't turn color either.
Jaundice is also considered a medical emergency - it indicates liver failure. If you've had this for a while and your feeling fine, your probably not jaundiced.
If you were jaundiced, there are a lot of diseases that could cause it. Cirrhosis, advanced hepatitis, basically anything seriously wrong with the liver.
If you're just getting a yellowish tinge to your skin, you might need to cut back on your intake of keratin. Let me explain this and then I will give you an answer to your
questions. When your red blood cells die, your spleen
changes the heme on them to a substance known as
bilirubin. This bilirubin goes to the liver and is made into
a soluble form that mixes with the bile and then flows
out of the liver to the intestines to help digest the fats
we eat. If there is a problem with the liver, or the biliary
tract where the bile flows through, or the blood itself...
this bilirubin can either stay in the blood or go back into
the blood from the liver instead of mixing with the bile.
We have bilirubin in our blood at all times. If you ever
bruised yourself, you will notice it might turn yellow or
start to be black and blue...that is what causes the
coloring. Bilirubin is a greenish, brown-yellow color.
It gives our stools the color they are, otherwise they
would be a whitish clay color. So when there is an
over abundance of this in our blood, like I mentioned
above, it will start to turn the whites of the eyes and
skin and mucus membranes a yellow color.
The doctors can see this rise in the bilirubin level when he gets your blood work results. It does not effect your hair color at all. If you are looking to see if you are jaundice...it is
best to go out into natural light outside because indoor
lighting can mask it.
1. If you whites of the eyes and skin are yellow, you have
jaundice.
2. When you are out in the sun, there is a substance in
your skin, know as Melena that causes your skin to
darken as you tan...this is not jaundice. Jaundice is
a yellowing coming from the bilirubin. Babies are
put under special lighting to lessen the jaundice and
people who have jaundice can lighten it by being in
the sun...but this should be done under the doctors
directions only. Babies have jaundice when they
are born because the liver may not be completely
functioning when they are born to handle the bilirubin.
3. The diseases that can happen may be a blood disorder,
or a liver problem. Cirrhosis, Hepatitis, Hemochromotosis,
Anemia...here is a link to help you understand more and
tell you a list of diseases:
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/...
http://www.medicinenet.com/jaundice/arti...
4 and 6 With Jaundice, all the skin area will become yellow...
and this yellow can almost appear orange if there is
alot of bilirubin in the blood.
5. The liver is not a complaining organ when there is
something wrong. People can be walking around with
Hepatitis or liver disease and not know it until the
liver is unable to do the functions it once did...this is
when the symptoms start to appear, like this jaundice.
There usually is no pain involved, unless the liver
starts to enlarge and then the pain may come.
6...I answered 6 in number 4.
7. It can be any age group, but we notice it more in
newborn babies because of what I mentioned above.
Liver disease has many causes later in life: alcohol
consumption, being in contact with chemicals,
taking toxic medications, the bile ducts becoming blocked,
hereditary conditions, hepatitis virus, etc.
8. If the red blood cells die off too fast, If the red blood
cells are produced too much, if a person has anemia.
The links above will also tell you more.
9. The hair is made up of dead cells and the blood
cannot carry the bilirubin into there cells, so no...
the jaundice does not appear in the hair color.
A simple blood test can show the doctor is you have
jaundice by looking at your bilirubin level. He can
also tell if your liver may be damaged and how it is
functioning. He can also tell if it may be a blood problem
or not. He may have to do other tests, like a ultrasound,
CT scan, or MRI to determine and make a diagnoses
on what disease it is.
I hope this informations has helped you understand
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