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How do people get Hepatitis?
Hepatitis is a condition that causes the liver to become inflamed. It can result from medications, viruses and various toxic agents. There are currently five known typs of viral hepatitis. In this article we will focus on Hepatitis A; how the diseases is spread and how it can be prevented.
How Do You Get Hepatitis
Hepatits A, also commonly called HAV, is spread by oral-fecal contact, or simply complin in contact orally with the feces of an individual who is currently infected with HAV. This usually arises from consuming contaiminated water or food and sexual contact such as anal-oral sex.
Hepatitis A can spread rapidly in environments that have numerou small children such as day care centers and kidergarten classes as these little ones are not adept in hand-washing and commonly wear diapers. Because children do not usually show the signs and symptoms of HAV it could be difficult to determine whether or not they are infected.
In some instances, although rarely, HAV is spread through the transfusion of blood. This occurs when personal tools such as needles and other equipment for injections are shared or if the blood products are somehow contaminated with blood in which the hepatitis A virus is present.
This disease is rarely spread by blood due to the fact that the virus is unable to remain present for a continual period of time. Once the viurs enters the blood stream, the infection develops.
This is an acute diseases and thus, it hast an acute phase initially that produces minimal to no symptoms. When symptoms are present they are most commonly flu-like:
The acute phase of this disease and the symptoms that ensue are not often serior or deadly, but in some rare instances a fast progressing form of HAV could be fatal.
As the infection worsens as new serious of symptoms are likely to arise:
The various forms of this virus are distinguishable by the course of the infection and the differeing outcome following the initial acute phase.
How To Prevent Hepatitis
The following should be remembered in order to prevent Hepatitis A:
Preventing Sexual Transmission:
Preventing Non-Sexual Transmission
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