HEPATITIS

•Define hepatitis, viral hepatitis

•Learn about the 5 different types of viral hepatitis

•Learn more about hepatitis A and B:

–The scope of the disease

–Signs/symptoms

–Risk factors and prevention

•Communicable disease may be transferred from the reservoir to the host in variety of ways.

•Direct Transmission

•Indirect Transmission

•Hepatitis means inflammation of the liver

–Hepat (liver) + itis (inflammation)= Hepatitis

•Viral hepatitis means there is a specific virus that is causing your liver to inflame (swell or become larger than normal)

ACUTE:

•Viral hepatitis

•Non-viral infection

•Alcohol

•Toxins

•Drugs

•Ischemic hepatits

•Autoimmune

•Metabolic diseases

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     CHRONIC:

•Viral hepatitis

•Alcohol

•Drugs

•Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis

•Autoimmune

•Heredity

ACUTE:

•Malaise

•Muscle and join ache

•Fever

•Nausea or vomiting

•Loss of apetite

•Abdominal pain

•Dark urine

•Jaundice

    CHRONIC:

•Malaise, tiredness, weakness

•Weight loss

•Peripheral oedema

•Ascites

5 types:

A: fecal-oral transmission

B: sexual fluids & blood to blood

C: blood to blood

D: travels with B

E: fecal–oral transmission