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Why does liver disease make you jaundiced?
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Backup of Toxins: The liver is the bodies main recycling center. Blood brings toxins & metabolic debris to the liver. Liver tissue processes the material and dumps the waste into bile channels which empty into the intestines. The waste is greenish but turns yellow & brown over time providing color to stool. If the liver is unable to clean the blood, the material backs up & produces the yellow skin color.
Answered 2/22/2019
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Bilirubin: The liver is in charge of the body's bilirubin. As the liver gets sick, the levels of bilirubin rise in the blood to abnormal levels. Bilirubin over a certain level causes jaundice.
Answered 10/5/2017
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