What causes jaundice in adults

In real life, if anyone's face is really yellow, it is better to go to the hospital to check it out. Because in medicine, this condition is called "jaundice", which is a sign of bile duct diseases such as bile duct cancer, and should never be ignored. So what causes jaundice in adults?

When the liver inflammation is aggravated, there will be jaundice symptoms, does this mean that jaundice is suffering from liver inflammation, and some people say that some newborns are born soon after a large number of red blood cells are destroyed, affecting the liver's intake of bilirubin.

There are various factors that cause jaundice, viral hepatitis can cause jaundice, which is called hepatocellular jaundice, and it may also be caused by congenital, institutional, toxic and other reasons, as follows:

First of all, bile duct obstruction caused by stones, liver, gallbladder, pancreatic tumors and some other inflammatory diseases prevents bile from being discharged into the small intestine, which will cause jaundice.

Secondly, the innate metabolic enzymes and hereditary defects of red blood cells, as well as the excessive destruction of red blood cells in the body caused by physicochemical, biological, immune and other factors, anemia, hemolysis caused by excess bilirubin raw materials, jaundice can also occur.

In addition, some disorders of intracellular bilirubin binding in some hepatocytes can cause jaundice, such as jaundice in congenital hemolytic Gilbert's disease and jaundice due to neonatal hemolysis; Some infectious diseases such as sepsis, pneumonia and typhoid fever can sometimes cause jaundice. People with heart failure from severe heart disease often develop jaundice due to prolonged congestion and enlargement of the liver.