Unpopular diseases such as Gilbert’s disease can be alarming once you are diagnosed with it because you will never know what will happen to you. Upon hearing that you are or you might be suffering from it, it can be hard to accept it because you dont know what to do.
To ease the burden that people with Gilbert’s disease, doctors try to explain everything about the condition in layman’s terms. And one of the easiest ways to understand it is if it is compared to more common diseases that have similarities in it like jaundice.
What Gilbert’s disease is all about
Gilbert’s disease was first described by a French gastroenterologist names Augustin Nicolas Gilbert in 1901. Gilbert’s disease is an asymptomatic (no external symptoms) condition affecting the liver. The condition affect an enzyme in the body called urodine diphosphate glucuronosyltransferase or UGT (abbreviation). UGT aids the liver in breaking down bilirubin which is found also in the blood stream.
Bilirubin is the waste product of the hemoglobin in the blood. Hemoglobin is found in the red blood cells that carry oxygen to other cells in the body to...
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