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What is a yellow discoloration of the skin caused by greater-than-normal amounts of bilirubon in the blood is known as?
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.
What causes jaundice in newborns?
Newborn jaundice is caused when there are high bilirubin levels in the blood.
Is jaundice a bacterial disease?
No, Jaundice is a yellow color of the skin caused by certain diseases. Some of these diseases are viral. For example, jaundice can be a symptom of Hepatitis A, a disease of the liver which is caused by a virus and which is infectious (it can be transmitted from person to person).
Can you get jaundice by kissing?
Jaundice is a descriptive term for yellow skin. Your skin won't turn yellow from kissing someone. If the cause of their jaundice is an infectious diease, you may contract it from kissing. The viral hepatitis infections are not spread by kissing.
Jaundice is a disease caused by drinking polluted water?
It can be caused by drinking alcohol
What are diseases caused by excess of water?
cholera.....jaundice
What is the future health condition of a person who is affetced by jaundice twice in his childhood?
It would depend what condition caused the jaundice.
What is prehepatic Jaundice and posthepatic jaundice?
Jaundice is a condition where the skin turns yellow because of excess bilirubin in the bloodstream. It happens when your liver is not functioning properly, which can be due to a number of factors. Hepatitis is a virus which can cause liver disease, and thus cause Jaundice.
What diseases are caused by not having enough vitamin B12?
Jaundice
Would doctors let you go school if you have jaundice?
Doctors may or may not allow you to go to school if you have jaundice. It depends on whether the jaundice is caused by an infectious disease and the effect that it would have on your health.
Why the patients having jaundice experience stomach pain?
Jaundice is caused by a build up of bilirubin, that in itself is not thought to be painful but the underlying cause of the jaundice - biliary cirrhosis, pancreatitis, coagulopathy, renal and liver failure are all possible sources of pain and need to be further investigated. Obstructive jaundice, is caused by an interruption to the drainage of bile in the biliary system - this type of jaundice causes pain from an inflammation or blockage in a duct or organ. Jaundice and pain are symptoms of the underlying disease and needs to be treated as such.
