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Jaundice is when your skin or the whites of your eyes turn yellow. It can be a sign of something serious, such as liver disease, so you need to get urgent medical help.
You may also have itchy skin, darker pee and paler poo than usual.
You can call 111 or get help from 111 online.
Your skin may look yellow if you have jaundice.
The white part of your eyes may also look yellow.
Yellowing of the skin may be less noticeable if you have brown or black skin, but the white part of your eyes will look yellow.
You may get jaundice if a substance called bilirubin builds up in your body.
There are lots of possible reasons for this and some of them are serious.
They include:
Treatments for jaundice depend on what's causing it.
Jaundice is common in newborn babies and is usually harmless.
