Jaundice

Jaundice is the most common of all liver disorders.

Jaundice is a yellow color of the skin, the mucous membranes, sclera of eyes.
Icterus is defined as a sign in which yellow discoloration of sclera occurs where as jaundice is defined as a clinical condition diagnosed after laboratory investigation.
When red blood cells are removed from the bloodstream, hemoglobin, the molecule in red cells that carries oxygen, is broken down into bilirubin.
The bilirubin is carried to the liver and excreted into the intestine as a component of bile.
Jaundice is a condition produced when excess amounts of bilirubin circulating in the blood stream dissolve in the subcutaneous fat (the layer of fat just beneath the skin), causing a yellowish appearance of the skin and the whites of the eyes.
With the exception of physiologic jaundice in the newborn (normal newborn jaundice in the first week of life), all other jaundice indicates overload or damage to the liver, or inability to move bilirubin from the liver through the biliary tract to the gut.
Symptoms
Jaundice by themselves, causes few problems. Jaundice can turn the skin and sclerae yellow. In addition, stool can become light in color, even clay-colored because of the absence of bilirubin that normally gives stool its brown color. The urine may turn dark or brownish in color.
This occurs when the bilirubin that is building up in the blood begins to be excreted from the body in the urine.
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The symptom that is associated most frequently is itching, medically known as pruritus. The itching associated with jaundice can sometimes be so severe that it causes patients to scratch their skin “raw,” have trouble sleeping.
It is the disease causing the jaundice that causes most problems associated with jaundice.
Specifically, if the jaundice is due to liver disease, the patient may have symptoms or signs of liver disease or cirrhosis.
The symptoms and signs of liver disease and cirrhosis include fatigue, swelling of the ankles, muscle wasting, ascites (fluid accumulation in the abdominal cavity), mental confusion or coma, and bleeding into the intestines.
Homeopathy for Jaundice.
Jaundice is one of the common problems among all age groups.
If you want, to cure the symptoms that cause jaundice then go for homeopathic remedies that will be very effective in treating jaundice.