Talk:Jaundice

Jaundice

Is there any information available on jaundice treatment? 68.55.216.197 02:14, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

I wonder if the article should explain what happens if jaundice is not treated. Is a baby's life in danger if it is not treated for jaundice (assuming the jaundice does not go away by itself)? Saleem ready discussed: "With high doses of bilirubin (severe hyperbilirubinemia) there can be a complication known as kernicterus. This is the chief reason for neonatal jaundice to be treated. The effects of kernicterus range from fever, seizures, and a high-pitched crying to mental retardation." David Ruben ^Talk 00:57, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

That section appears to have disappeared. Could we have it back? --Puellanivis 22:01, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

I believe it moved to Neonatal jaundice, no?--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 12:22, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

Who is the idiot that keeps changing Pre-hepatic urine color to light? Lets do an experiement. Go to Africa, get malaria, and go to the bathroom and tell me if your urine is light. It's not. Any hemolytic anemia is going to increase your unconjugated bilirubin and your liver will conjugate the bilirubin to increase the conjugated bilirubin which will go into your intestines, be broken down by bacteria to urobilinogen and oxidized to urobilin and then reabsorbed and put into the urine. If you have more, you will reabsorb more and your urine will be darker. I even put a reference. You guys at wiki. Sometimes. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mastac741 (talk • contribs) 15:37, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

Popular reference

The pop culture reference was not helpful. I removed it to give the aritcle a boost of credibililty.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.62.130.213 (talk • contribs) 05:44, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

There really should be the symptoms and treatments available.82.128.11.179 16:16, 1 February 2007 (UTC) Tolulope Ogunbiyi

The article is referenced to a "dictionary of cliches." That can't be right!!70.116.136.85 22:57, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

Bryanton's Triangle

"Patients often complain of severe itching or "pruritus". Often, only Bryanton's triangle will remain unscratched. Bryanton's triangle is a single triangle of skin on the patient's back that the patient is unable to reach, and therefore scratch. It varies in size depending on the flexibility of the patient, and occasionally presents as a diamond in lower BMI patients."

I looked this up on Google, and while it appears that there is no such thing as a "Bryanton's Triangle" there is something called "Bryant's Triangle" which isn't located anywhere on the back. Although the description they give sounds reasonable, whatever it is, it is not "Bryanton's Triangle". 75.120.169.120 (talk) 18:38, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

what is hepatitis A,B and C? --202.164.149.30 (talk) 06:44, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

If only there were such a thing as an instantly searchable online encyclopaedia, eh? 87.114.25.228 (talk) 14:31, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

Include information on how hyperbilirubinemia causes intrinsic staining of the teeth —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.6.224.2 (talk) 20:25, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

Lab tests

The table is good, but do you think we should add other tests in to determine if it is pre/intra or post hepatic? For example alkaline phosphatase raised in post hepatic, and Gamma glutamyl transpeptidase raised in intra hepatic. Or break down products of bilirubin, for example urobilinogen being decreased in the urine of patients with posthepatic jaundice.82.10.78.130 (talk) 09:04, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Is there such a thing as urobilirubin - is it supposed to be urobilin (see hepatic jaundice) I searched guyton 11th ed 2005 couldn't find that word anywhere —Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.167.100.198 (talk) 09:17, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

That's because they changed the name. A lot happens in medicine in a few years. Urobilinogen is formerly known as Stercobilinogen. I bet that's the term they use in your old textbook.