Re: Jaundice and Bilirubin...good article

[Guest guest]

Abijann, that article is written way beyond my knowledge, but it did bring

up a question. My father supposedly had jaundice as a young man and

therefore could not donate blood. He lived to age 76 and died of heart

problems with kidney failure as a side effect. We also had the same

infection or problem with the herd of cattle we had when I was in grade

school. We had to get rid of it, and weren't able to have milk cows for

commercial use. We just kept one for our own use which supposedly wasn't

infected, and soon, that one was too old to produce milk too. His father

died of what was thought then to be pernicisious anemia and now the doctors

think with our present family liver problems was probably liver disease of

some sort. My fathers older brother died of cancer of the liver caused by

too much iron in his system, and his daughter is now on dialysis for too

much iron. Can you tie this all together for me? Jan H

2008/12/19 abijann <no_reply >

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Jan H

[Guest guest]

Thanks Abijann!,

So, question for you. Do you think finding bilirubin in the urine is definitive

for liver damage? Meaning, if a doctor just did a urine test before anything

else and found bilirubin would that send out alarm signals? The reason I ask,

was I read something a while back that bilirubin in urine is definitive of liver

damage.

MaC

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[Guest guest]

Would this also show kidney failure?

Lyncia

 

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