Jaundice
Some mothers, especially new mothers, are appalled when they see the color change of the new baby’s skin or the color of the eye white to yellow, which is called jaundice or yolk. Newborns get jaundice most often after birth, most of them are cured alone, but may last for long periods. Caution should be observed and the baby can be monitored. Adults and the elderly can also become infected. What is jaundice? What are its causes? What are its symptoms? How can it be cured?
The concept of jaundice
Is the coloration of the skin and eyes in yellow as a result of the accumulation of bilirubin in the body and the inability of the liver to get rid of them out of the body; in the natural situation bilirubin is a substance associated with red blood cells, and when the blood corpuscle rid of the kidney and bilirubin found in them, New young red blood, but for a problem in the liver, it can not get rid of these pyramidal pellets, accumulate bilirubin in the body.
There is a type of jaundice called pseudogenes, which occurs due to the proliferation of beta-carotene; where the skin color yellow orange and does not affect the whiteness of the color of the eye.
Causes of jaundice
Jaundice is a symptom of a particular disease, and may be related to the inability of the liver to get rid of bilirubin for normal reasons, especially in newborns; where the liver in the first stages of the beginning of work so may be unable to remove bilirubin with stool. Causes of jaundice:
- Liver injury in diseases such as viral infection and parasitic infection.
- Gallstones and bile duct obstruction.
- Pancreatic cancer.
- Eat some types of toxins such as poisonous mushrooms.
- Take some types of medications.
Symptoms of jaundice
- The skin color changes to yellow, and the color of the eye may change to yellow.
- The color of the urine changed to a dark yellow color brownish, and the color of the stool changed to dark color.
- Itching in the skin.
- If jaundice causes diseases in the body, the patient may feel tired, debilitated and lose weight.
Methods of treatment of jaundice
The treatment of jaundice depends on the cause. If the jaundice is due to a liver disease, once the liver is treated, the jaundice will disappear. In the case of newborns, the jaundice usually disappears at the beginning of the liver work, but the doctor should be checked immediately to ensure that the child is not exposed to excess. In the proportion of accumulation of bilirubin in the body, and has caused many diseases and problems for the child because his body is still small and his organs are not fully completed.