Submitted by DwagonFyre t3_xxadwj in askscience
Monguce t1_irepv3x wrote
Reply to comment by Kiavu in What happens when a bruise heals? by DwagonFyre
It might be more accurate to say that people who have Gilbert's are often jaundiced.
There are loads of causes of juandice. Some of them are really bad news.
It can be pre hepatic (like haemolysis), intra hepatic (like Gilbert's) or post hepatic (like gall stones).
Other things that you'd have to consider would include drug reactions, pregnancy, biliary obstruction, autoimmune causes (haemolysis, hepatitis...) Other causes of hepatitis (viral, anaesthetics, alcoholic...), I forget the rest of the list. It's not hard to find out you want to know the other causes.
The most likely causes are also different at different ages.
Gilbert's is one of many.
Kiavu t1_irgreo4 wrote
Absolutely, all it takes is a blood test to diagnose. I have gilbert's, but had no idea until a doctor noted it during a blood test for something else. I had always wondered why sometimes by eyeballs were yellow like I had cancer, or my skin got yellower sometimes.
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