Question: Is jaundice a communicable disease? Let me know if jaundice is contagious disease. Can you explain why it is contagious or not contagious?
Jaundice Is Not Contagious or Communicable Disease
Answer: Jaundice in itself is not a communicable disease because it is not a disease, but a symptom of a disease. And if the disease is contagious like in the case of viral hepatitis A, where jaundice is one of the sign and symptom then probably we misinterpret jaundice to be contagious, which is not so.
Jaundice is a yellow discoloration of the skin and the sclera (white of the eye), it is a symptom due to an abnormal rise of bilirubin in the blood.
Bilirubin is formed by the destruction of hemoglobin
In most of the cases jaundice is indicative of liver problem. But there are certain other extrahepatic conditions which also cause jaundice such as cancer of head of pancreas, blood and spleen diseases, stones in gall bladder, Hodgkin’s disease etc.
It is clear from the above fact that jaundice is not a contagious disease but a symptom of a contagious or non contagious disease.
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