What are the diagnostic indicators for jaundice?

Jaundice is also known as yellow bile, commonly known as yellow disease. It is a symptom and sign of yellowing of the skin, mucous membranes and sclera due to elevated bilirubin in the serum. Certain liver diseases, gallbladder diseases and blood diseases often cause symptoms of jaundice. Usually, when the bilirubin concentration in the blood is higher than 2-3mg/dL (34-51), these parts will appear in colors that can be distinguished by the naked eye.

What are the diagnostic indicators for jaundice?

1. The skin, sclera and other tissues turn yellow. When jaundice deepens, urine, sputum, tears and sweat will also turn yellow, but saliva generally does not change color.

2. Changes in the color of urine and feces.

3. Digestive tract symptoms, often including abdominal distension, abdominal pain, loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea or constipation.

4. The main symptoms of hypercholesterolemia include: skin itching, bradycardia, abdominal distension, fat diarrhea, night blindness, fatigue, mental depression and headache.

Patients may experience loss of appetite, nausea, aversion to greasy food, fatigue, yellow urine like tea, pain in the liver area, fever, and in a few cases of severe hepatitis, abdominal distension, oliguria, and bleeding tendency.

Associated symptoms

1. Jaundice with fever is seen in acute cholangitis, liver abscess, leptospirosis, sepsis, lobar pneumonia. Viral hepatitis or acute hemolysis may first cause fever and then jaundice.

2. Jaundice with severe upper abdominal pain can be seen in bile duct stones, liver abscess or biliary ascariasis; severe pain in the right upper abdomen and chills

3. Jaundice with hepatomegaly. If the enlargement is mild to moderate, the texture is soft or moderately hard and the surface is smooth, it is seen in acute biliary infection or biliary obstruction caused by viral hepatitis. Obvious enlargement, hard texture, uneven surface and nodules are seen in primary or secondary liver cancer. Hepatomegaly is not obvious, but the texture is hard, the edges are irregular and there are small nodules on the surface. It is seen in cirrhosis.