Re: yellow eyes and skin===

[Guest guest]

Dear Pam;

The symptoms you describe are several of those associated

with " cholestasis " most probably caused by a bile-duct stricture:

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000215.htm

Cholestasis symptoms:

Itching

Jaundiced (yellow) skin or eyes

Inability to digest certain foods

Nausea, vomiting

Right upper quadrant abdominal pain

Organ failure in cases of sepsis (but not from cholestasis itself)

Rash or fever in some cases of drug-induced cholestasis

Clay-colored or white stools

Dark urine

If you have not already contacted your doctor about the changes you

have experienced during the last week, you should probably do so

soon. If you develop chills or a fever, this could be due

to " cholangitis " , a bacterial infection, which can occur when the

duct is obstructed by a stricture.

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000290.htm

Cholangitis symptoms:

recurrent jaundice

abdominal pain

in the right upper quadrant or middle of the upper abdomen

may be recurrent

sharp or cramping or dull

may radiate to the back or below the right shoulder blade

chills

fever

stools, clay colored (may occur)

dark urine (may occur)

nausea

vomiting

Antibiotic therapy can eliminate the infection. Obstructed bile ducts

may be drained, dilated or stented by ERCP.

Best regards,

Dave

(father of (19); PSC 07/03; UC 08/03; no jaundice; total

bilirubin 1.2; no dark urine; no clay stools; not yet listed)

>

> hello-

> of the people on here who are listed for a new liver, are all of

you

> yellow all the time now, with yellow eyes? i just turned yellow

this

> week and wonder if it is going to be like that from now on, or if

it

> wll come and go. (YES I DO KNOW IT IS CALLED JAUNDICE) Do you all

> also have brown urine all the time and

> the white, clay stools? Thanks for the info.

[Guest guest]

Only during a cholangitis episode (I am not yet listed). I have not experienced

these symptoms since common bile duct dilatation and stenting 3 years ago.

Arne

53

UC 1977, PSC 2000

Alive and (mostly) well in Minnesota

Date: 2004/10/15 Fri AM 03:46:47 GMT

To:

Subject: yellow eyes and skin===

hello-

of the people on here who are listed for a new liver, are all of you

yellow all the time now, with yellow eyes? i just turned yellow this

week and wonder if it is going to be like that from now on, or if it

wll come and go. (YES I DO KNOW IT IS CALLED JAUNDICE) Do you all

also have brown urine all the time and

the white, clay stools? Thanks for the info.

[Guest guest]

Pam,

Yes, yes, and sometimes. This has been intermittant throughout my

disease until this year when my billiurbin has consistantly been

above 7. (It is now 12.3.) If this is a new development, your doc

should hear about it. It may be that there is something like an ERCP

that they can do to help resolve it. This helped me lots in the past.

And yes, people stare...

Deb in VA

AIH 1997, PSC 1998, UC 1999, Listed Ltx 2001, MELD 19

>

> hello-

> of the people on here who are listed for a new liver, are all of

you

> yellow all the time now, with yellow eyes? Do you all

> also have brown urine all the time and

> the white, clay stools? Thanks for the info.

[Guest guest]

Hi i personally was christened "queen of the fake tan" because of my yellow skin and eyes pre my transplant for about the last 10 months pre tx. My doctor said she thought

i had constant cholangitis all that time dark urine and pale stools also.Ercp was done at one stage three years earlier it did get rid of the fake tan for a while.

Regards Alison Organ

Cheltenham England

UC72 PSC91 TX 02

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