10 Jaundice Symptoms
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Pale Feces
When jaundiced, a person may notice that their stools are paler than normal. Instead of waste matter being brown, it can become clay colored and much lighter than usual.4‘Stools - Pale or Clay-colored.’ MedlinePlus - Health Information from the National Library of Medicine, medlineplus.gov/ency/article/003129.htm
The absence of normal color of the fecal matter may be due to the yellow-orange substance bilirubin not reaching the gastrointestinal tract via the biliary system. Bilirubin can't then be excreted from the body in the feces. This can occur when the liver fails to process the compound and it remains in the bloodstream.
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