Its another edition of Wellness Wednesday and coincidentally it is also the World Hepatitis Day 2015, in our little effort to create awareness and get people informed, here are little tips you need to know about this life threatening disease.
The
World Health Organization and World Hepatitis Alliance have announced
that the campaign theme for the World Hepatitis Day 2015 will be
prevention of Viral Hepatitis. (Source : WHO).
The
annual campaign, marked on 28 July, aims not only to raise awareness
among the general public and infected patients, but also to urgently
promote improved access to hepatitis services, particularly prevention
interventions, by policymakers. (Source : WHO).
Hepatitis
is simply the inflammation of the liver. The peculiarity of the
clinical condition is that it may occur with or without signs and
symptoms. Most common obvious symptom is jaundice (yellowish
discoloration of the eyes and skin). People generally call it "yellow
fever ". Others are loss of appetite, malaise, urine darkening etc.
These, though peculiar to liver pathologies, are non-specific to
hepatitis. Other liver pathologies with these include Cholangitis, Liver
Cancer etc.
It could be
Acute or Chronic with a time interval of 6 months. This eventually
results in Acute Liver Failure or Liver Cirrhosis respectively.
Mode
of infection include chronic alcohol intake, toxic drug consumption,
physical contact with an infected individual, mother-to-child,
un-screened blood transfusion etc.
It is, thus, important to present immediately at the hospital for adequate treatment.
In
lieu of this, Vaccines are the major means of prevention if test negative. The World
Health Organization recommends vaccination of all children, particularly
newborns in countries where hepatitis B is common to prevent
transmission from the mother to child.
(Source http://www.who.int/hiv/mediacentre/news/whd2015_preventhepatitis/en/)
Tell someone to tell another...stay HEALTHY
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