Jaundice shows itself as a yellow-orange tint in a the skin and eyes of the affected person. Jaundice is a build up of bilirubin which would come from a problem involving the liver or break down of red blood cells. In people over the age of 65 this is likely to be a problem involving gallstones or cancer.The most common forms of treatment for jaundice include medications and gallstone treatment. Jaundice in newborns is a bit different. For newborns, the build up of bilirubin is most commonly caused by their livers not being fully developed. I was born nearly two months early, and as a result my liver wasn't fully grown and could not properly process the bilirubin in my body. I was an orange tinted baby that was placed in the windows sunlight as a way to get rid of the tint. This sunlight treatment is called phototherapy. A baby's skin can absorb the light waves from sitting near the windows sun. These absorbed light waves can change bilirubin into products that can pass through the baby's system.
http://www.med.umich.edu/1libr/pa/umphototherapy.htm

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