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Does jaundice spread ifinfected person is close to other person?
No, jaundice is not contagious. Jaundice is a result of metabolic interruption, often caused by an obstruction of the bile ducts. Because the bile cannot leave the body naturally (in your faeces), it enters the blood stream and turns you yellow. A common cause of jaundice is gallstones, so jaundice is no more contagious than gallstones!
What is wrong if the whole of your body is yellow?
More likely than not, the person is suffering from jaundice which is a disease of the liver.
What is the organism which causes Yellow Jaundice called?
u cause jaundice since the microorganisms in ur body spread to another person.
What part of your body does yellow fever damage?
yellow fever is characterized by high fever, jaundice, and often gastrointestinal hemorrhaging...
What is jaundice in premature infants or prematurity?
Yellow discoloration of skin and whites of the eyes that results from excess bilirubin in the body's system.
Does jaundice spread if you touch the hand of person having disease?
True jaundice comes from the reddish-yellow bile salt, bilirubin. Unusually high concentrations of this compound in the body cause yellowing, or jaundice. Jaundice is typically diagnostic of liver failure. As such, jaundice itself does not spread by touch. However, if an infectious disease has attacked the liver and thus is the root cause of the jaundice, that infection may be transmissible by touch.
Why do people's eyes turn yellow when they have Yellow Fever?
Yellow fever is associated with toxic hepatic necrosis, which means that liver damage occurs. This causes a build up of bilirubin in a patients body, which gives skin/eyes a yellow appearance, known as jaundice or icterus.
What colour does your body turn after hanging?
your body turns purple green red yellow and brown
What is the cause for yellow eyes vomiting loss of weight body hunching?
not sure about the rest, but liver disfunction causes jaundice, or the yellowing of eyes and skin.
What organ system does the jaundice effect?
This question doesn't make sense? Jaundice affects the skin and the sclera (white part) of the eyes. Body system? Jaundice is caused by an excess of billirubin in the blood, due to the liver or an obstruction in the billiary tract.
Buildup of bile within the liver leading to bile pigments circulating through the body could cause tissues to turn yellow and a condition called?
JAUNDICE
What is the condition that happens when buildup of bile within the liver leading to bile pigments circulating through the body could cause tissues to turn yellow?
jaundice
