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  • Chennai: Apollo Hospital doctors successfully saved two young lives by performing complicated living donor liver transplants on a Six-month-old baby and an Eleven-year-old girl who had extreme health complications during the pandemic. Mothers of both children gave a new lease ...
  • Jaundice in newborns is identified by the yellowish tint or colouration of a newborn's skin and the white portion of the eyes. When this kind of a tint is noticed in a neonate, it is generally a sign that there is ...
  • Jaundice is a condition that affects the liver. When the levels of bilirubin in your blood rise drastically - the condition is called jaundice. Jaundice is not a disease but rather a symptom of an underlying disease. The skin, mucous membranes ...
  • Your liver is an important organ of the body. It works by removing toxins and damaged blood cells out of the body and aids the body in processing the nutrients from food and turn them into energy. The liver secretes an ...
  • Newborn jaundice is not uncommon. Although quite stressful for the parent, you should be aware of the fact that a large number of newborns do face this health issue and when treated immediately and accurately, the symptoms slowly die down and ...
  • Parents-to-be and new parents only want their babies to be healthy when they are born and as they grow up. One thing no one anticipates when welcoming a new baby is jaundice in the newborn. Jaundice in the newborn, or hyperbilirubinemia, ...
  • After a baby is born it should be taken care of in a special way as the protection that the baby had got in the mother's womb had shielded it from a number of diseases. However, even after a lot of ...
  • Jaundice is not a disease, but a clinical symptom that indicates the presence of some underlying medical problem. Jaundice is the yellow discoloration, which is the representation of increased serum bilirubin. The reason behind jaundice may vary from mild liver cell ...
  • Jaundice is one of the commonest reasons parents visit Paediatricians. It refers to the yellow colouration of the skin and the white of the eye (sclera) caused by the accumulation of a yellow pigment called "bilirubin" in the skin and mucus ...
  • The onset of summers is just around the corner. With the summers in town it is time to pack up all your sweaters and pull out the colourful clothes. But with summers comes the soaring heat and long days accompanied by ...
  • Jaundice is categorized into three types. Pre-hepatic jaundice, which occurs due to increased destruction of red cells. Hepatic jaundice, which occurs due to liver cell damage and Post-hepatic jaundice, which occurs due to obstruction in the flow of bile. Most commonly ...
  • The summer season can play many tricks with your health. Dehydration, lack of correct diet, excessive exposure to sun etc, can become the cause of several diseases and one such illness is Jaundice. Jaundice is often said to be a symptom ...
 
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