What are the causes of hypercarotenemia?

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Hypercarotenemia, also known as citrus peel disease, is a skin yellowing disease caused by excessive carotene content in blood. The most important feature is that the skin is yellow and the sclera is not yellow. No special treatment is needed to correct the underlying diseases. What are the causes of hypercarotenemia? Next, I'd like to share my views with you.

What are the causes of hypercarotenemia?

The disease is caused by excessive consumption of carotene rich foods such as carrots, oranges, tomatoes, pumpkins, day lily and spinach, etc. Hyperlipidemia, hypothyroidism, diabetes, or other congenital defects or liver diseases that convert carotene to vitamin A can also increase the content of carotene in the blood.

Carotene is a kind of lipid pigment. The content of carotene in blood and sweat of patients with this disease is the highest, which can make normal skin yellow. The determination of carotene in blood and urine has diagnostic significance.

The determination of carotene content in blood and urine has diagnostic significance, which is manifested by the increase of carotene content in blood and urine. According to the history of eating carotene rich food, yellow skin and normal sclera, the diagnosis can be made.

matters needing attention

After stopping the food rich in carotene, it will disappear in a short time. In addition to not eating foods containing carotene, such as oranges, tomatoes, pumpkins and carrots, you should not eat some alcoholic and irritating foods, because these are not conducive to the recovery of the disease.