What is Hepatitis in Egypt? What causes it? What medicine do i need to get if any?
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According to WHO:\nHepatitis means "inflammation of the liver", and the most common cause is infection with one of 5 viruses, called hepatitis A,B,C,D, and E. All of these viruses can cause an acute disease with symptoms lasting several weeks including yellowing of the skin and eyes (jaundice); dark urine; extreme fatigue; nausea; vomiting and abdominal pain. It can take several months to a year to feel fit again.\n\nAbout Egypt and hepatitis:\nEgypt has a population of 62 million and contains the highest prevalence of hepatitis C in the world. The national prevalence rate of HCV antibody positivity was estimated by the Egyptian Ministry of Health (MOHP)in 1999 to be 18.9%. Since 25-30% of individuals clear the infection, the estimated adjusted national prevalence rate is 12% (or 7.2 million people) (MOHP, 1999).
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Hepatitis A is an enterovirus transmitted by the orofecal route, such as contaminated food. It causes an acute form of hepatitis (inflammation of the liver) and does not have a chronic stage. The patient's immune system makes antibodies against Hepatitis A that confer immunity against future infection. A vaccine is available that will prevent infection from hepatitis A for life.\n\nThere is no specific treatment for Hepatitis A. Sufferers are advised to rest, avoid alcohol, eat a well-balanced diet, and stay hydrated. Approximately 15% of people diagnosed with Hepatitis A may experience a symptomatic relapse for up to nine months after contracting the disease.
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Hepatitis is a group of viral infections that affect the liver causing acute/chronic inflammation which eventually may lead to liver failure or cancer and ultimately death. The B, C, and D group are blood borne and/or sexually transmitted or by vertical transmission from mother to child. Hepatitis C viral infection (HCV) is notoriously known to cause chronic liver disease and the risk for liver hepatoma/cancer is much higher than for HBV.\nJust like most viral infections, there is no definite cure by antiviral or antibiotic therapy. However, some antiviral drugs such as lamivudine (sometimes used to treat HIV) may hold some promise but no definite cure. It is important to note that most people do not die eventually from chronic hepatitis since it is a chronic disease. They may die of other causes. If you are sexually-active, also consider protecting your spouse/partner from picking up the infection by using appropriate barrier methods. \n\nI would advice you go on a high carbohydrate diet/low protein diet; take multivitamins supplements. have your doctor keep an eye on your liver function tests say on a yearly basis. Most other drugs used as supportive therapy are fraught with bad side effects.
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there are currently 3 major types of malaria in the world. to protect yourself against this serious desease, consult with a qualified medical practioner. This is no joke. Malaria can kill you, destroy your liver and weaken your heart. Your Doctor can tell you what is best to take based on the region of the world you plan to visit.The malaria in that region is specific to that country. Do not forget about Hep A/B vacines and Cholera as well as Diptheria. You also need to get TB shots and Typhoid as well as an updated  Tetnas shot. If you plan on visiting or working in a third world country, do not play around with your health. I worked around the world in some very isolated areas. You do not want to get sick outside of the western world. By the way, there are no known herbal antimalarial compounds and anyone selling you one is a fraud.
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It is hepatitis C. And no it is not the same as HIV/AIDS. \n\nIt is treatable...I believe Pamela Anderson and Naomi Judd are two "famous" people living with the disease.\n\nThe most important thing you can do for yourself is to educate yourself. Not knowing about your disease, does not allow you to know what precautions and treatments are available.
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Phenagren, if I am spelling it correctly.  Your Dad's doctor can prescribe it for him.  My dear friend from High School was in renal (kidney) failure, and also obtained Hep C from a blood transfusion in the hospital, before blood was tested for this. She took this medicine for nausea everyday. There are also motion sickness medicines that you can buy over the counter to help when you are out of the other.  They are all the same so you can buy the cheapest one, but it will not work as well as the meds you can get from the doctor. Good luck, and God Bless
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Hepatitis C is transmitted by blood to blood contact only.  This means that blood infected with hepatitis C must come into direct contact with the bloodstream of another person.  Even the smallest amounts of blood can transmit hepatitis C.\n\nTransmission can occur through:\n\nsharing and equipment used to inject drugs  \nunsterile tattooing, body piercing and skin penetration procedures \nhousehold practices (such as sharing razor blades and toothbrushes) \noccupational procedures (eg, needlestick and sharps injuries) \ncertain sexual activities \nmother to baby.\nSharing injecting drug equipment\n\nSharing injecting equipment is the most common way of becoming infected with hepatitis C in Australia.  Syringes, hands, needles, tourniquets, swabs, water, filters or spoons can transmit hepatitis C and other viruses.\n\nIt is possible for a person with hepatitis C to be reinfected with a different strain (genotype) of hepatitis C.\n\nTattoos, body piercing and skin penetration\n\nHepatitis C can be transmitted through unsterile tattooing and body piercing equipment, including tattooing inks.\n\nHousehold transmission\n\nWherever blood to blood contact happens, transmission of hepatitis C can occur.  Sharing razor blades, toothbrushes and personal hygiene items can potentially transmit hepatitis C.\n\nHepatitis C is not transmitted by touching, kissing, hugging or closeness.  Hepatitis C is not present in saliva so cups, plates, utensils and other household items can be considered safe.  However, washing and general cleaning of these household items can protect from many other illnesses and should remain a part of every household's common hygene practice.\n\nA recent study initiated by the Institute of Sciences and Oxford University has shown that one in four homeless people in Oxford are infected with Hepatitis C, posing a major public health concern. \n\nThe study, carried out by Luke Sheriff and Dr Richad Mayon-White, has shown that inadequate diets, poor hygiene and high levels of intravenous drug use have lead to the high numbers of homeless people that tested positive for the virus when screened. \n\nOxford is now the second most highly affected area in Britain; unsurprising, given that it is also the city with the highest recorded number of rough sleepers outside of the capital. \n\nThere are currently between 2,500 and 3,000 people in Oxford classified 'homeless' by Emmaus, a charity operating in the city. Whilst not all of these people may actually live on the streets, the often cramped and squalid conditions in which many 'squatters' find themselves create a ready environment in which the virus can spread. \n\nOf the 98 individuals of the Oxford homeless community who were interviewed and tested for HCV, the results gave an estimated HCV prevalence of 26.5 percent.\n\n\n\nThey are also more prone to HIV, and this is because they are unable to receive adequate medical care, and are more likely to be drug users, and have poor diets, all things that put them at risk or might possibly expose them to the diseases.
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Go check out this support group on yahoo; it is for autoimmune hepatitis and it has over 200 members signed up. They seem fairly active in their message posting.\nhttp://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/Autoimmune_Hepatitis/\n\nI don't have hepatitis, but I have a bad kidney disease that seems to be autoimmune. Had a kidney transplant in March.\n\nTake care.
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Both Staphlococcus and hepatitis are transmissible through contact with either blood, wounds or other contaminated objects. Staph infections occur in hospitals where the level of sanitation is usually very high. There are different types of hepatitis and transmission can be sexually, or fecally contaminated fomites (objects capable of carrying the infection) For Staph, a good bacteriocidal soap is usually effective, or even a very mild bleach solution. Hepatitis is more difficult, but a good start is with the soap. For cleaning toilet seats, and areas that may have been touched by the patient's hands after a bowel movement require stronger measures and carbolic acid is often used. As with hepatitis there are different types of Staph and the most common is Staphlococcus aureus or Staphlococcus epidermis. Staph aureus is a frequent contaminant of food, producing a food poisoning, and usually as a result of an infected food handler.
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HCV is transmitted through blood to blood contact. Getting it from sex is rare and it may be from something else. I have HCV and live with my family-2 other adults and 2 teenagers. I don't share my plate when eating and they know to stay away from combs, toothbrushes, and shavers. As far as I'm aware no one has gotten the virus from me in the 23 years I've had it. It's a case of following proper hygiene and not sharing anything that could have blood on it. Be especially careful of IV drugs and tatoos. Everything must be sterile to not catch it from someone who has it. At my house we really don't do anything special, except I keep my drinks in old gatorade bottles, so everyone knows they're mine.
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Here is more than you ever wanted to know about Hepatitis B. Hope this helps you. I urge you to visit the Hepatitis B Foundation Website. Click on the module for an interactive course on Hep B.\n\nHepatitis B is a serious liver infection caused by the hepatitis B virus (HBV). Although most people exposed to the virus recover completely, chronic infections can lead to severe liver damage, cirrhosis (scarring of the liver), liver cancer and death.\n\n\nHow is hepatitis B transmitted?\nHepatitis B virus is spread by contact with body fluids of an infected person. These body fluids include blood, semen, vaginal secretions, and saliva. In about 30-40% of cases, the means of transmission is not known.\n\n\nWhat is the risk of hepatitis B?\nThere are approximately 80,000 new cases of hepatitis B infection each year in the United States. About 90-95% of adults recover from hepatitis B in a few months, clearing the virus from their systems and developing immunity. They will never get hepatitis B again: however, blood tests will always show that they were once infected, and blood centers will not accept donated blood from these individuals. Up to 10% of young adults who get the disease become carriers – as many as 1.25 million Americans are hepatitis B carriers. Carriers are people who have the virus in their blood and can infect others, even though they do not feel sick and have no obvious signs or symptoms of hepatitis B.\n\nPeople infected with hepatitis B who are unable to clear the infection from their bodies in six months are chronically infected with hepatitis B. The younger the person when infected, the greater the risk that the disease will become chronic. Chronic hepatitis B means that the virus is in the blood, infecting liver cells and possibly damaging them. Chronic hepatitis B can lead to cirrhosis, primary liver cancer, liver failure and/or death. An estimated 5,000 people die each year of chronic liver disease associated with HBV infection.\n\nPeople who are exposed to blood or body fluids of an infected person are at risk. You may also be at risk if you:\n\n\n\n\nAre exposed to bodily secretions, including on the job – as first aid or emergency workers, firefighters, funeral directors, police personnel, dentists, and dental assistants, and medical personnel\n\nLive in the same household with an infected person\n\n\nHave sex with a carrier of chronically infected person or have more than one sexual partner\n\n\nInject illicit drugs\n\n\nReceived a blood transfusion prior to 1975 (when a test to screen blood was developed) or if you have received multiple transfusions of blood or blood products\n\n\nHave hemophilia\n\n\nWork or are a patient in a health care or long-term care facility\n\n\nWork or are incarcerated in a prison\n\n\nAre bitten so that the skin is broken by someone whose saliva contains the virus\n\n\nTravel to countries with a high incidence of hepatitis B\n\n\nAre a hemodialysis patient\n\n\nHow is hepatitis B diagnosed?\nThe most common symptoms of hepatitis B occur within 25-180 days following exposure and include loss of appetite, nausea and vomiting, fever, weakness or tiredness lasting weeks or even months, abdominal pain in the area of the liver (upper right quadrant), dark urine and light-colored stool, joint pain, and yellowing skin and eyes (jaundice).\n\nAn estimated 40% of people infected with hepatitis B have no recognizable signs or symptoms and do not know how or when they became infected. The only way the disease can be positively identified is through a blood test. Many people are surprised to learn when they donate blood that they have tested positive for hepatitis B. Hepatitis blood tests are not usually included in the routine blood tests of a physical examination.\n\nThe blood tests for hepatitis B may include anti-HBs (surface antibody test), HBsAg (surface antigen test), and anti-HBc (core antibody test). Although anti-HBs and anti-HBc may be found in the blood of individuals who
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Find, then Go to a Medical University Center that has a department devoted to Hepatitis.\nThen check out the fnancial options available including Charity Care
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Patients suffering from Hepatitis, don't become cured they loose the jaundice  as their liver fights off the conditions that weakened the organ in the first place, but the Hepatitis bug remains in their blood indefinitely. After suffering this disease the first time, your body will build up an immunity against it, but you wouldn't be curred. If sometime in the future you were to eat poorly, not get adequate rest, and wear yourself down, Hepatitis could attack your liver again and jaundice and effects of a weakened  liver could resurface again.  That is the main reason why Blood donors may not have ever had Hepatitis.
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Hepatitis C is a blood borne virus, meaning that it is rarely spread through casual, breastfeeding or even sexual contact (as long as the partner does not come in contact with blood).  Statisically only 4 out of 100 babies born to a mother with Hepatitis C will contract the disease.  Unfortunately the test for whether the baby has contracted Hepatitis C is inaccurate until the child is at least 18 months old, that is when the mother's own antigens for Hepatitis C are completely gone from the baby's system.  Unfortunately there is no vaccine at this time, nor a cure.  Appoximately 80% of people with Hepatitis C will develop long-term infections, 75% develop Chronic Liver Disease, and is the leading reason for liver transplants.\nSince it is not spread through casual contact, there is no need for ejecting the child from daycare, however the caretaker should be a little extra diligent in monitoring for bleeding, and during diaper changes.
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Hi Shahid\n\nHere are some ideas to heal the hepatitis C.\n\nCause\nThe most common cause of hepatitis is a virus that can occur in five potential forms: A, B, C, D, or E. Other causes include excessive alcohol consumption, drug abuse (including pharmaceutical drugs, such as acetaminophen), overexposure to chemicals, and, sometimes, as a reaction to properly prescribed medications. \n\nIn recent years, hepatitis C has been on the increase. It is most frequently caused as a result of blood transfusions. Typically, people with hepatitis C are identified either because they have abnormal liver tests or because of a hepatitis C antibody test. A positive test does not necessarily mean serious liver disease, however. People with hepatitis C may have no liver disease, a mild form of chronic hepatitis, or a more serious form of hepatitis that may progress over a number of years to cirrhosis. The usual indications are a positive antibody test for the hepatitis C virus, abnormal liver tests for more than six to twelve months, and a liver biopsy that shows chronic active hepatitis. Approximately 20% of patients chronically infected with the hepatitis C virus will go on to develop cirrhosis. \n\nNote: Infectious hepatitis can be easily spread two weeks before and one week after jaundice appears. The feces of people with hepatitis contain the virus. Therefore, very strict toilet hygiene and hand and cloth washing should be observed during this time.\n\n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nNatural Cures\n\nAromatherapy: Rosemary can help stimulate liver function. \n\nDiet: Follow a diet low in protein and high in fresh vegetables to minimize stress on the liver. Also eat small meals throughout the day, and avoid foods such as refined sugars, alcohol, and caffeine, which cause stress on the liver, and be sure to drink plenty of filtered water. Drinking fresh lemon juice water every morning and evening followed by vegetable juice is also recommended to help liver function. Easily digested grains, such as millet, buckwheat, and quinoa, are also good food choices. \n\nEnemas: Three warm enemas administered daily can help boost liver function. Do a Colon an Liver Cleanse asap to help remove the toxins out of the system.\n\nHerbs: The liver-cell regenerative properties of herbs such as milk thistle and licorice can be helpful. Take 1/2 teaspoon of this mixture three times a day. Tumeric combined with milk thistle has also been shown to help alleviate the symptoms of hepatitis B. \n\nHydrotherapy: Hydrotherapy is the application of water, ice, steam and hot and cold temperatures to maintain and restore health. Treatments include full body immersion, steam baths, saunas, sitz baths, colonic irrigation and the application of hot and/or cold compresses. Hydrotherapy is effective for treating a wide range of conditions and can easily be used in the home as part of a self-care program. Many Naturopathic Physicians, Physical Therapists and Day Spas use Hydrotherapy as part of treatment. I suggest several at-home hydrotherapy treatments. \n\nJuice Therapy: The following juice combinations can be helpful: beet, carrot, and wheat grass juice; or garlic, burdock, flax, and black currants.\n\nNutritional Supplementation: Supplement with vitamin C, beta carotene, liver glandulars, milk thistle extract, vitamin B complex, adrenal glandulars, lipotropic factors, pantothenic acid, free-form amino acids, betaine hydrochloric acid (HCL), multi-enzymes, and evening primrose oil.\n\nAlternative Professional Care\nIf your symptoms persist despite the above measures, seek the help of a qualified health professional. The following professional care therapies have all been shown to be useful for treating hepatitis: Ayurveda, Acupuncture, Detoxification Therapy, Magnetic Field Therapy, Naturopathic Medicine, and Oxygen Therapy. \n\nBest of health to your family\n\nCheers
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It means you are infected with hepatitis B and it is actively destroying cells in your body.  Go to the doctor and do whatever he tells you to do!