Hepatitis

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One rumor that has spread about
hepatitis is that a person can only contract Hepatitis if associated with HIV or
AIDS. This is not true! Any one can become infected with Hepatitis.
Unfortunately this is about all most people know of Hepatitis. They need to
know the full horror of which the virus is capable.
The first of the Hepatitis viral infection to be discovered is Hepatitis
A. Hep. A is the mild mannered virus compared to the other viruses. It has the
symptoms of influenza, fever, vomiting, loss of appetite, and weakening of body,
but it does have some differences such as jaundice (a yellowing pigmentation of
the skin and whites of the eyes) and urine appears to be a darker color.
Jaundice is caused by an abundance of bilirubon which has not been removed from
the blood system due to the infected liver. Hep. A does not have any special
medications or antibiotics that can be used to treat or prevent this unpleasant
virus. Some ways of avoiding this viral infection ...

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to have a liver or it isn't functioning in the
proper manner the person would suffer extreme blood poisoning and die.
Hepatitis B can result in such malfunction of the liver.
Hep. B causes the liver to become inflamed. Usually the people that get
infected with Hep. B can fight off the virus, but there are some individuals
that are unable to fight. This would include people infected with HIV or AIDS.
The symptoms of Hep. B are very similar to Hep. A, loss of appetite, nausea and
vomiting, fever, weakness of body which may last up to several weeks even months,
abdominal pain, darkening of urine, and jaundice (American Liver Foundation June
1993 pg. 2).
The only vaccine that is used on ...

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