What are the consequences of untreated jaundice?

The incidence of jaundice in newborns is very high, but many adults also suffer from jaundice in life, such as patients with liver disease, people who often stay up late, and patients with colds. If they are not treated in time, jaundice will occur. Jaundice is also very harmful to the human body, so it should be treated in time. What are the consequences of not treating jaundice?

First, what are the consequences of not treating jaundice? Jaundice can damage the liver because the hepatitis virus invades the liver and continues to replicate in liver cells. Under the action of the body's immune response, liver cells are damaged and cause edema, which affects the normal state and structure of liver tissue and damages various functions of the liver's bilirubin metabolism. Second, jaundice can be life-threatening. As mentioned above, the substance that causes jaundice is called bilirubin, which comes in two forms: one is fat-soluble and the other is water-soluble. The former can be deposited on the brain nerve nuclei, accumulate more and more, affect the function of the nerves, and can cause extremely harmful kernicterus. Kernicterus can affect the brain in mild cases and be life-threatening in severe cases. Although water-soluble bilirubin is less toxic, the liver and gallbladder diseases that can cause elevated bilirubin are more harmful to the human body than its own toxicity.

Second, no matter which type of bilirubin it is, it is very dangerous to the human body. In addition, jaundice can easily cause various complications, including yang jaundice, yin jaundice, and acute jaundice. Although they are different in nature and severity, they can transform into each other under certain conditions. Yang jaundice can turn into acute jaundice if the patient has a poor constitution, is seriously ill, and the jaundice gets worse day by day, and the symptoms of intense heat and toxicity appear rapidly; Yang jaundice can also turn into Yin jaundice due to damage to spleen yang and dampness turning into cold; Yin jaundice can turn into Yang jaundice due to severe dampness and heat; acute jaundice can show symptoms of liver and kidney yang deficiency if the heat and toxicity are intense, invading the pericardium, or bleeding profusely;

What are the consequences of not treating jaundice? You can know the answer by understanding the above content. In life, jaundice patients should pay attention to their diet and follow the doctor's advice. They can take some liver-tonifying and liver-protecting medicines such as Yishanfu according to the doctor's advice.