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Jaundice may be caused by a number of factors, including:
- An obstruction of the bile duct, often due to a tumor or gallstone
- Hepatitis
- Biliary stricture (a narrowing of the ducts that transport bile)
- Cirrhosis
- Pancreatic cancer
- Inadequate blood flow to the liver
- Congenital disorders involving bilirubin
- malaria (an infection that can destroy red blood cells)
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Actully when a illness enters it invades your blood system so all over your blood are microorganisams called white blood cells.White blood cells eat the illness and that's were the battle ends.But it depends how strong you are if you are really strong (not like lifting 5kg in one finger) then you get ill very rarly on the other hand if you are weak and don't like coldyou get ill a lot.
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Kaleidoscopic
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Approximately 15-16% of blood donors have Rh- blood. (This includes O-, A-, B-, and AB-)
What may be the cause for decrease in blood platelets?
It may be reaction of body to certain drugs or more commonly to insecticides from your food. In febrile illness, this can happen in dengue.
What would a child be if the father was B positive and the mother was O positive?
I am O positive and my husband is B+. We have two children. Our first child, a daughter, had O+ blood type. Our second child, a son, had B+ blood type. He was born with high levels of bilirubin (had jaundice). In the old days they would do a blood transfusion (which I am opposed to) but now almost all cases are treated with exposure to special lighting. We stopped there.
What is a yellow discoloration of the skin caused by greater-than-normal amounts of bilirubon in the blood is known as?
jaundice
What causes jaundice in newborns?
Newborn jaundice is caused when there are high bilirubin levels in the blood.
High levels of billirubin in the blood stream can result in?
jaundice the normal serum bilirubin level is 0.5 to 1.5mg%. jaundice occurs when the bilirubin level exceeds 2mg%. the increased blood level of bilirubin is called hyperbilirubinemia. excess bilirubin from blood diffuses into the tissues, skin and mucous membrane, colouring them yellow. this condition caused by overflow of bilirubin is called jaundice.
What is johndus?
According to webmd.com, "Jaundice is not an illness, but a medical condition in which too much bilirubin - a compound produced by the breakdown of hemoglobin from red blood cells - is circulating in the blood. The excess bilirubin causes the skin, eyes and the mucus membranes in the mouth to turn a yellowish color. Jaundice is common in newborn babies and will usually clear up without treatment. However, for adults the symptoms of jaundice may indicate damage to the liver. If the cause is not treated, it can lead to liver failure." Further information about jaundice may be found at: http://children.webmd.com/digestive-diseases-jaundice === === Jaundice is the body's disability to clean the blood of liver toxins and will turn the skin and the whites of the eyes, the sclera, a yellow color. Alcoholics with liver failure will show this feature.
Why cant a person born with neonatal jaundice donate blood?
No, this patient can't donate blood, even if he is cured he/she can't donate blood until a period of 12 month from hiss last day of jaundice. This is because Liver in Jaundice patients is not working in anormal way, and the blood in those patients is poison with bilirubin, that's why they can't donate.
Jaundice is due to an increased blood concentration of?
CAROTENE
What do you think people with malaria often have jaundice?
People with Malaria often have Jaundice because the destruction of the red blood cells that Malaria cause's can cause Jaundice.
What is the medical term meaning high blood pigment levels?
Hyperbilirubinemia.not sure what you are looking for......jaundice, icterus, hyperbilirubinemia?This is called jaundice.
Jaundice is caused by the rapid breakdown of?
Jaundice is caused by the rapid breakdown of red blood cells which leads to increased levels of bilirubin.
How do you diagnose jaundice?
Jaundice can be detected by measuring the concentration of bilirubin in the blood. If the concentration of bilirubin in serum is high enough (usually about 35 μmol/L), then tissues will start to become noticeably yellow. At this point a blood test is not necessary to call it jaundice.
How does drinking cause jaundice of the liver?
Jaundice is caused by increased levels of Bilirubin in the blood, typically as the result of injury or illness that has damaged the liver.
Location of jaundice?
Jaundice is symptom of a liver disease or a problem with red blood cells breaking down too fast, e.g. with malaria. Jaundice is seen on the skin and mucosal surfaces, which are colored with various shades of yellow (the shade depends on the type of bilirubin present in the blood, and can indicate to the clinician where the problem lies.)
