What other symptoms can occur with jaundice
Many other conditions can occur with jaundice including:
- Changes of urine and stool colors: Some of the other striking features of jaundice include changes of urine and stool colors, where the urine becomes darker and stools can become paler in color. This is most pronounced in causes of jaundice related to the obstruction of bile flow.
- Pruritis: Itching can be severe in some causes of jaundice, owing to the accumulation of bile salts and their regurgitation into the blood. Bile salts severely affect the sensory nerves of the skin, causing bothersome itching.
- Abdominal pain: Although not related to the jaundice itself, abdominal pain is a commonly associated finding. It can occur in some causes of hemolytic anemia and is more prominent in hepatitis.
- In neonates, those who are under a month of age, the manifestations can be so severe that the bilirubin damages the brain and causes a condition known collectively as kernicterus.
- Other symptoms related to the conditions that caused the jaundice including:
- Anemia, feeling of intense heartbeats, and pallor in hemolytic anemias.
- Abdominal swelling, leg swelling, and bloody vomiting in advanced liver conditions.
- Tumors associated with jaundice also cause the other general causes of cancer including weight loss, deteriorating general condition and abdominal pain.
