JAUNDICE

Jaundice is not an illness, but a medical condition in which too much bilirubin – a compound produced by the breakdown of hemoglobin from red blood cells – is circulating in the blood. This excess of bilirubin causes the skin, eyes, and the mucus membranes (inside of the mouth) to turn a yellowish color. This yellowish color is due to the bilirubin dissolving in the fat layer just below the skin.

Jaundice is common in newborn babies and will usually clear without treatment. However, for adults the symptoms of jaundice usually indicate damage to the liver. If the cause of the jaundice is not treated, liver failure can result.

Types of Jaundice

There are several types of newborn jaundice. The following are the most common:

Physiological (normal) jaundice: occurring in more than 50% of newborns, this jaundice is due to the immaturity of the baby's liver, which leads to a slow processing of bilirubin. It generally appears at 2 to 4 days of age and disappears by 1 to 2 weeks of age.

Jaundice of prematurity: this occurs frequently in premature babies since they take longer to adjust to excreting bilirubin effectively.

Breast milk jaundice: in 1% to 2% of breastfed babies, jaundice can be caused by substances produced in their mother's breast milk that can cause the bilirubin level to rise above 20 mg. These substances can prevent the excretion of bilirubin through the intestines. It starts at 4 to 7 days and normally lasts from 3 to 10 weeks.

Blood group incompatibility (Rh or ABO problems): if a baby has a different blood type than the mother, the mother might produce antibodies that destroy the infant's red blood cells. This creates a sudden buildup of bilirubin in the baby's blood. Incompatibility jaundice usually begins during the first day of life. Rh problems once caused the most severe form of jaundice, but now can be prevented with an injection of Rh immune globulin to the mother within 72 hours after delivery, which prevents her from forming antibodies that might endanger any subsequent babies.

What are the symptoms often accompanying jaundice?

• Yellow discoloring of the skin, whites of the eyes (sclera), and mucus membranes
• Dark urine
• Nausea
• Itching
• Light-colored stool (gray or yellow)
• Abdominal pain or swelling
  

What causes jaundice?

• Jaundice is caused by high levels of a chemical called bilirubin in the baby's body.
• Red blood cells are being made, and being broken down continually in all people, including babies before and after birth, because red blood cells, like most other cells in the body, have a limited lifespan, and after several weeks they do not work as well as newly made cells. The protein in the red blood cells that makes them red is called haemoglobin. This protein breaks down into smaller chemicals before it can be eliminated (got rid of) from the body. Bilirubin is one of these chemicals.
• Before birth the chemicals made when the baby's haemoglobin breaks down are carried out of the baby through the umbilical cord to the placenta, and into the mother's blood. The mother's body then gets rid of them with her own waste products.
• When a baby is born, the baby's liver suddenly has to take over the work of getting rid of haemoglobin and it can take the liver a few days to fully manage this. While this is happening the level of bilirubin in the baby's body rises, causing the yellow colour - jaundice.

Jaundice Treatment Cure :

CHINESE MASTER's way of jaundice herbal medicine treatment cure will regenerates the organs that is affected. Usually is the Liver, spleen, stomach and kidney's Qi system.

You have to email to them your blood test reports and medical history then they will identify the organs that is causing the jaundice. The jaundice herbal medicine will help to regenerates these organs and restore the jaundice.