Is jaundice a serious liver disease?

Is jaundice a serious liver disease?

If jaundice is physiological jaundice in newborns, it is usually not caused by serious liver disease. If jaundice is caused by liver disease, it is usually caused by serious liver disease.

1. Not a serious liver disease:

Neonatal physiological jaundice generally refers to neonatal jaundice within 28 days of birth. It is usually due to abnormal bilirubin metabolism, which leads to increased blood bilirubin levels and yellowing of the skin, mucous membranes, and sclera. It is a common clinical problem in newborns. It usually does not affect liver function and is physiological. Phototherapy can usually be used to reduce serum total bilirubin and make the symptoms disappear, so it is generally not serious at this time.

2. Severe liver disease:

When patients suffer from liver diseases such as viral hepatitis, hepatic hemangioma, and cirrhosis, it may cause hepatocytes to ingest unconjugated bilirubin and conjugation disorders, so the serum unconjugated bilirubin concentration increases, and some undamaged hepatocytes can continue to ingest and conjugate unconjugated bilirubin to convert it into conjugated bilirubin, but some conjugated bilirubin fails to be discharged from the bile duct, but enters the liver lymph and blood through the gaps between necrotic hepatocytes, resulting in increased serum bilirubin concentration and jaundice. At this time, liver disease is generally serious and requires timely medical treatment for targeted treatment. For example, viral hepatitis can be treated with drugs such as lamivudine tablets, adefovir dipivoxil tablets, and entecavir dispersible tablets. If viral hepatitis can be treated with drugs such as lamivudine tablets, adefovir dipivoxil tablets, and entecavir dispersible tablets. Hepatic hemangioma can generally be treated surgically, such as hemangioma resection, hemangioma suture ligation, hepatic artery ligation, etc. Cirrhosis can also be treated surgically, such as internal jugular vein intrahepatic portosystemic shunt, liver transplantation, etc.