JAUNDICE
The presence of bilirubin deposits in the skin, whites of the eyes and
mucosa. Bilirubin, the unrecyclable waste products of hemoglobin, are normally
excreted in the bile, get carried down the intestinal tract and color our feces its usual
comfortable brown. If the bile ducts are blocked, blood breaks down too quickly, or the
liver itself is diseased (it performs much of the recycling), then the yellow/orange/brown
bilirubin has nowhere to go but out the urine (making it the standard hepatitis color) and
into the skin. Jaundice ain bad...its the causes that one should worry about.