What are your chances that your canada working visa be approved if you are a hepatitis B healthy carrier and certified by the dr. that you are not infectius? It is a temporary resident visa for two years and the work is in food industry.
Ida
Hepatitis C is an illness that causes the liver to inflammate and damages it in time. It is caused by viruses that are transmitted from blood to blood contact with an infected person, and it affects millions of people all over the world.
Some of the hepatitis C infections are not dangerous, but many of them can turn into chronic hepatitis which can be deadly.
When people get infected with the hepatitis C virus they enter the acute hepatitis phase. Acute hepatitis lasts for 6 months and while in this phase the virus is “hibernating” and it’s not causing any trouble. In most cases it does not show any signs or symptoms but a small number of people have experienced jaundice, abdominal pain, a state of fatigue and weakness and a decrease in the appetite.
In 20% of the cases the body eliminates the hepatitis C virus in these first 6 months, and the patient is cured. But in most cases the virus is still present after 6 months, becomes active, and acute hepatitis C turns into chronic hepatitis C.
Chronic hepatitis C is tricky because it has almost no symptoms and for this reason it can’t be discovered until it’s too late. Even the jaundice that appears during the acute phase is usually gone. In many cases it’s discovered accidentally while routine tests are performed on the patient.
However symptoms do occur when serious damage is done to the liver and it does not function properly. The most common signs that appear at most people are fever and other flu-like symptoms, headache, decrease in appetite, fatigue, abdominal, joint and bone pain.
Other known symptoms that have been encountered in many hepatitis C infections are: blurred vision, dizziness, depression, mood swings and anxiety , dry skin, indigestion, sweating and sometimes weight loss.
The symptoms vary widely from one patient to another so don’t jump to any conclusion until you have been examined by a doctor.
Remember that hepatitis C irreversibly damages your liver even if you don’t experience any symptoms. If it is left untreated your life may end up depending on a liver transplant, and there are too many that need liver transplants and too few donors, so it’s best to consult a doctor if you suspect that you are infected or if you shared needles or had sex with someone that may be infected.
If you want to find out more resources about hepatitis c symptoms or even about hepatitis c transmission you should visit this website http://www.hepatitis-guide.com
Timothy
Hepatitis is the inflammation of the liver, usually caused by a viral infection. Of the five main types of viral hepatitis, the most common is hepatitis A which has been with us for a long time.
Hippocrates, the Greek father of medicine, is believed to be the first to describe the disease in the 5th century B.C. Viral hepatitis was probably the reason why the whole nation of Israel became ill after dining on contaminated quail eggs as Numbers 11:32-33 tells us. Twenty-seven hepatitis A outbreaks have been reported in 17th and 18th century Europe and even Napoleon’s army proved to be no match to the disease which hit his troops in 1799.
Although hepatitis A is found mainly in developing countries where poverty, overcrowding, and inadequate access to clean water and food are common, industrialized nations are not spared from this problem. Epidemics have occurred in the United States as early as 1812 and in Sweden, Australia, and the United Kingdom.
In America, hepatitis A is responsible for over 143,000 infections and 80 deaths yearly. The disease costs the American public over $200 million annually. In other countries, the number of those with hepatitis A infection ranges from 10 to 50 per 100,000 people yearly.
In Eastern European countries, there are about 50 to 300 cases per 100,000 each year. The worldwide incidence of hepatitis A exceeds 1.4 million cases and costs $1.5 to $3 billion annually.
Although hepatitis A has been with us since ancient times, the virus responsible for the disease was not identified until 1973. During the 19th century, it was thought that the disease was caused by a biliary obstruction.
In 1908, scientists hypothesized that an infectious agent was involved. As more epidemics occurred in World War I, one army doctor suggested that contaminated food and water could be the means of transmitting the disease. That observation eventually proved correct.
Further studies of human volunteers during World War II showed that the infecting agent was confined to feces. Three decades later, Drs. Robert Purcell, Albert Kapikian, and Stephen Feinstone of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases saw the hepatitis A virus for the first time.
People get hepatitis A by ingesting food or water contaminated with the stools of an infected person. Transmission through saliva and oro-pharyngeal secretions, although rare, have been reported.
Once inside the body, the hepatitis A virus (HAV) attacks liver cells. But even before any of its symptoms appear, the infected person may transmit the disease to others.
“Food or drinks contaminated with fecal material that contain the virus will give you hepatitis A. The person with hepatitis A passes out the virus in his stools and spreads the disease to others,” explained Dr. Nina G. Barzaga of the Department of Medical Microbiology, College of Public Health, University of the Philippines.
“If you have hepatitis A, the virus will be in your stools, blood and bile from two to three weeks before any symptoms develop. The virus disappears once jaundice develops within two to three weeks afterwards. Thus, anyone who comes into contact with your blood or feces, even before you have symptoms, may become infected with the virus,” added Dr. David E. Larson, editor-in-chief of the Mayo Clinic Family Health Book.
In others, it may take from 40 days to two months before the signs of hepatitis A appear. These include flu-like symptoms such as fever, sore throat, loss of appetite, muscle and joint pains. Nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea or constipation may follow together with chills, weight loss, and distaste for smoking.
As the infected liver is unable to filter bilirubin (bile pigment) from the blood, jaundice sets in and urine becomes tea-colored. (Next: Jaundice not always a sign of hepatitis A.)
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Ok so I am doing homework for a sanitation class and the first question I had was what is hepatitis A and I answered it. (it is an infection of the liver) and now question number 3 asks…What type of illness does hepatitis A cause? Anybody know the answer or is it the same answer as number 1? I’m confused. Can someone help?
Vincent
if any one infected with hepatitis what precaution should he takes? what precaution is given to such a infected person and what anti biotic is prescribed
Leo
Last 4 months I am suffering from severe rash all over body & severe Hyperacidity & tiredness. Now Ultrasound Sonography has revealed Enlarged Liver with Fatty Changes/infilteration & distended Gall Bladder with mobile Gall Stone of 2.8 cm size. Is this sign of Autoimmune hepatitis? I don’t wish to start Steroids to treat it.Is any Home remedy or alternative therapy or Homeopathy or Ayurvedic treatment available to cure it? In allopathy, it is incurable.
Jennifer
Trying to get health insurance for husband and that is one of the questions as he had hepatitis as a teenager and it still shows in his blood…
Only serious answers please….thanks!
Ida
What is the difference between hepatitis c and hepatitis b? And also can it be possible to have a false positive on a Hepatitis B test? My friend tested negative 4 months ago for it, but now she got a test again and it came back positive this time, but nothing has changed in her life. Same sex partner, no cheating, no drug use or anything. So she went back today to get another re-test, thinking that the positive test was a mistake. We won’t find out the answers for a few days though. But basically the reason why she gets tested so often for this type of stuff is because she is trying to get pregnant with invitro, and they must test for all of these diseases before they will inseminate you with the fertilized egg.
Anyway, if she does really have Hepatitis B, why isn’t she sick? And will she eventually get sick? And also, how long does it take to show up on a blood test before you do test positive for Hepatitis B, I mean can she have caught it a year ago, but it just now showed up?
Tina
If you use a spermicide applicator, then forget to wash it, and use it again, could that cause hepatitis?
Jeremy
Dear american friends, Will you keep distance with people who has infected hepatitis B?
In my hometown, If you have infected hepatitis B, so many people who knew that will stand off you except your loved ones and few really friends and few sincere colleagues, does it in America so?
Peggy
