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| {{Jaundice}}
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| ==Overview==
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| ===History & Symptoms ===
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| Jaundice typically appears in a 'top to bottom' progression (starting with the face, progressing toward the feet), and resolves in a 'bottom to top' manner. It was once believed persons suffering from the medical condition jaundice saw everything as yellow, but this is not true. By extension, the jaundiced eye came to mean a prejudiced view, usually rather negative or critical. [[Alexander Pope]], in 'An Essay on Criticism' (1711), wrote: "All seems infected that the infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye." <ref name=eye>From "The Dictionary of Cliches" by James Rogers (Ballantine Books, New York, 1985).</ref>
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| The caregiver should ask questions regarding
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| * Alcohol/hepatotoxic medication use
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| '''Various Symptoms'''
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| * '''Alcohol Hepatitis'''
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| *:* Aspartate aminotransferase:alanine aminotransferase ratio > 2 (AST:ALT)
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| *:* [[Ddx:Fever|Fever]]
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| *:* [[Leukocytosis]]
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| * '''Viral Hepatitis'''
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| *:* [[Anorexia]]
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| *:* Dark urine
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| *:* [[Ddx:Fatigue|Fatigue]]
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| *:* [[Hepatomegaly]]
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| *:* Light-colored (acholic) loss stools
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| *:* [[Ddx:Nausea and Vomiting|Nausea]]
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| *:* [[Ddx:Pruritis|Pruritis]]
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| *:* [[Abdominal pain|Right upper quadrant (RUQ) pain]]
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| *:* [[Nausea and Vomiting]]
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| ==References==
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