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the orange-yellow pigment in bile.
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What is the cause of pruritis in jaundice?
In jaundice there is depostion of billirubin and bile salts in the skin, the billirubin gives the yellow color and the salts is the reason of pruritis.
What color test tube is billirubin?
Gold
What is the characteristic of Urine with positive billirubin?
Bright yello
What in the blood can be used to determine the severity of the condition?
billirubin and heme pigments
What does it mean to have a cbc of 12.9 wbc and a billirubin of 1.4?
small infection
When billirubin builds up in the body tissue and skin it causes?
condition known as jaundice
Why is excretion an important process?
because the excretory products are extremely toxic e.g billirubin, urea etc
At what level of bilirubin is clinically evident?
For billirubin to accumulate and be clinically evident in the sclera and skin, levels have to exceed 35mmol/L.
What will happen to a person whose gallbladder does not release the bile?
This is bile duct obstruction. Bile accumulates in the gallbladder and it will eventually get full. One of the job's of the liver is to transport billirubin (a waste product) to the gallbladder for excretion, but if the gallbladder is backed up, then billirubin will leak into the circulation, and the person will get jaundice. The person might also have trouble digesting fats and lipids.
What to eat during joundice?
Jaundice is a sign of low liver function or high billirubin levels. In newborns, it is best to feed the newborn breastmilk or formula to flush their system. In adults, a simple high carbohydrate diet would be best.
Is My babie's bilirubin level 12.5 fatal?
It's very fatal......... Having such high billirubin is deadly dangerous........ Check wit a doctor for jaundice.....n take utmost care to keep it in control coz if it rises more, it can be very serious,...........
What part of the body collects used or unwanted RBC's?
Red blood cells (RBCs) have a very short lifepsan of around 120 days and when they get old they become inneficient and prone to rupture in narrow cappilaries. However if the cells do not rupture in this way before they end up in the spleen where machrophages engulf and destroy them. The heamoglobin (Hb) is broken down and many of its parts are reused in synthesis of other RBC (the iron is included in this) and what is not reused is converted to a substance called billirubin. This substance is simply used as a method of transport to the liver and to a lesser extend the kidneys. The liver removes the useless metabolites of billirubin as part of the bile, into the duodenum and it is removed with the feaces. The kidneys also excrete some of these metabolites in the urine.
