Jaundice

Sign/Symptoms
Appetite Loss (Anorexia) Eyes Yellowing Mind: Malaise Nausea Skin Yellowing (Jaundice) Urine Dark Vomiting White Blood Cells Raised

Drugs

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Treatments
Alternative Medicine Milk Thistle Weakly in Favour Low Evidence

Attributes

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Further Tests
Acid Phosphatase Concentration Acid Phosphatase (Increased) Antithrombin 111 (AT-111) Activity Test Antithrombin 111 (AT-111) (Increased) Bilirubin Concentration (Neonates, Neonatal Bilirubin) Bilirubin (Unconjugated Fraction) (Increased) Cholesterol Concentration Cholesterol (Total) (Increased) Fecal Urobilinogen Concentration Urobilinogen (Stools) (Decreased) Protein Electrophoresis (Blood, Serum Protein) Beta Globulin (Increased) Prothrombin Time (PT) Prothrombin Time (Increased) Urine bilirubin Concentration Urine bilirubin (Increased)

Efficacy of Alternative and Other Treatments According to GRADE* Ranking:

Milk Thistle [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]:

Please note, this management does NOT treat the condition itself. It may mildly help with some of the symptoms, and even then has insufficient evidence to back up this claim at present.

Recommendation: weakly in favor (Early reports support claims that Milk Thistle helps treat jaundice. However, more research is needed, as current studies have yielded mixed results)

Grade of Evidence: low quality of evidence

* www.gradeworkinggroup.org

Summary References

Treatments:

1. Ades T, Alteri R, Gansler T, Yeargin P, "Complete Guide to Complimentary & Alternative Cancer Therapies", American Cancer Society, Atlanta USA, 2009

2. http://www.cancer.org/Treatment/TreatmentsandSideEffects/ComplementaryandAlternativeMedicine/HerbsVitaminsandMinerals/milk-thistle

3. http://nccam.nih.gov/health/milkthistle/ataglance.htm

4. Kroll DJ, Shaw HS, Oberlies NH.(2007). Milk thistle nomenclature: why it matters in cancer research and pharmacokinetic studies. Integrative Cancer Therapies. 6: 110-119.

5. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16279916

6. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/145063

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