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High Bilirubin Levels: Symptoms, Causes, Treatment

here’s a quick breakdown of jaundice when red blood cells break down, they release hemoglobin, which gets turned into bilirubin. Normally the liver takes that bilirubin, processes it (conjugates it), and sends it out through bile so it can leave the body in stool but in liver failure, those liver cells are too damaged and scarred to do function properly. Bilirubin starts to build up in the blood, and when levels get high, it settles into tissues — especially the skin & sclera of the eyes — makin