An excess of what in the bloodstream causes jaundice?
Jaundice of jaundice. Patients also can present with elevated serum cholesterol, and often complain of severe itching or "pruritus" because of the direct and indirect effects of pruritogens in bile such as bile salts. No single test can differentiate between various classifications of jaundice. A combination of liver function tests is essential to arrive at a diagnosis. "Neonatal jaundice" is usually harmless: this condition is often seen in infants around the second day after birth, lasting until day 8 in normal births, or to around day 14 in premature births. Typical causes for neonatal jaundice include normal physiologic jaundice, jaundice due
Neonatal jaundice seizures. High pitched crying is an effect of kernicterus. Exchange transfusions performed to lower high bilirubin levels are an aggressive treatment. In newborns, jaundice tends to develop because of two factors—the breakdown of fetal hemoglobin as it is replaced with adult hemoglobin and the relatively immature metabolic pathways of the liver, which are unable to conjugate and so excrete bilirubin as quickly as an adult. This causes an accumulation of bilirubin in the blood (hyperbilirubinemia), leading to the symptoms of jaundice. If the neonatal jaundice does not clear up with simple phototherapy, other causes such as biliary atresia, Progressive familial