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hepatitis

IHateMyJob2004

IHateMyJob2004

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A relative just told us (wife and I) she has hepatitis.

All I found out so far is that it somehow involves the liver. Info is found via google, yes I know. I already found some, but nothing straight forward has been found yet.

So, what is it and how does one get it?

THANKS!

EDIT: I don't know what jkind she has. I'll have to go check on that in a second.

EIDT 2: THANKS TO ALL POSTERS! Sounds like Hep A for reasons in the discussion below. I'm going to do more digging on it, but I think I'm overly complicating things as it can be "gotten" for multiple reasons and even for reasons unanticipated. She has no idea how she got it.
 
I know its some sort of STD that is contracted through bodily fluids, because I know that a bunch of paramedics contracted it a couple years ago. As far as I know, it is not fatal.
 
Hepatitis A breaks out in day care centers occasionally. Something to do with diapers. It's like a bad flu and most people recover, but some die. When I was in the Air Force, there was an outbreak and we all had to line up and drop our shorts for a shot of gamma gobulin.

Hepatitis B and C are blood borne. A lot of drug users get it from passing needles and generally having compromised immune systems. I think being an alcoholic will make you succeptible to it also. A lot of nurses get it from accidental needle sticks. It also can be passed sexually.

 
..I know someone at work who has it (hep C) and is on a waiting list for a transplant. And takes interferon injections.
 
SOme good info so far.... she wants to be a nurse, so I hope it's curable.

She's kinda th eblack sheep in the family. No one likes her, but still, it kinda sucks that my brother has to deal with this. I guess he had to get a second job to support the family. I honestly think she is full of sh!t about it, but that's for another thread.
 
Hepatitis A is not fatal mostly. Like a bad cold for the liver. Hepatitis B is fatal. Attaks liver and destroys it slowly. Spread through bodily fluids like blood or sex. There is a vaccine that you can take before or right after you get it to prevent or at least lessen the blow(idk about hep a, i have 1 for hep B). My father's ahd it since birth. not too easy to transmit and takes a long time to kill. some alike my father end up as carriers for a long time.
 
Originally posted by: Rastus
Hepatitis A breaks out in day care centers occasionally. Something to do with diapers. It's like a bad flu and most people recover, but some die. When I was in the Air Force, there was an outbreak and we all had to line up and drop our shorts for a shot of gamma gobulin.

Hepatitis B and C are blood borne. A lot of drug users get it from passing needles and generally having compromised immune systems. I think being an alcoholic will make you succeptible to it also. A lot of nurses get it from accidental needle sticks. It also can be passed sexually.
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not sure that is exactly true, well maybe in a roudabout way where you are more prone to sleep with infected people while drunk.

Don't sleep with Skeletors.
 
it's a virus. The word hepatitis means inflammation of the liver.

Type A is transmitted via fecal/oral route and not usually a big deal for most people. B and C are blood borne and much more serious, no cure. There's a vaccine for B, not for C. It affects people to varying degrees, it can progress to cirrhosis and eventually all the way to liver failure.

 
Well, apparently she is on the road to recovery after a week of illness. She didn't mention what type.

I guess it's not worth prying. She's not an alcoholic and from what I read, and what otehrs have posted, it's really a big ??? as to where she got it from. She says she has no idea and I can believe it after reading up on it.
 
Originally posted by: Rage187
Originally posted by: Rastus
Hepatitis A breaks out in day care centers occasionally. Something to do with diapers. It's like a bad flu and most people recover, but some die. When I was in the Air Force, there was an outbreak and we all had to line up and drop our shorts for a shot of gamma gobulin.

Hepatitis B and C are blood borne. A lot of drug users get it from passing needles and generally having compromised immune systems. I think being an alcoholic will make you succeptible to it also. A lot of nurses get it from accidental needle sticks. It also can be passed sexually.
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I read something about alcoholism causing problems. It might have to do with the immune system more though. Alcohol effects the luiver and apparently some forms of Hep attack the liver. Not usre, but the poster wasn't saying it to be a jerk.

not sure that is exactly true, well maybe in a roudabout way where you are more prone to sleep with infected people while drunk.

Don't sleep with Skeletors.
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Originally posted by: SludgeFactory
it's a virus. The word hepatitis means inflammation of the liver.

Type A is transmitted via fecal/oral route and not usually a big deal for most people. B and C are blood borne and much more serious, no cure. There's a vaccine for B, not for C. It affects people to varying degrees, it can progress to cirrhosis and eventually all the way to liver failure.
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WOW, that's some good info. I highly doubt it involved blood, so I have to assume it's Hep A.
 
When I was younger my mother got hep a or b can't remember which. She is a nurse and got it some how during work. My whole family had to have shots (which were thousands of dollars luckily covered by the hospital) to prevent us from getting it.

It was pretty terrible, I remember her eyes were totally yellow at one point. She pulled through it and has been fine for years.
 
Originally posted by: IHateMyJob2004
WOW, that's some good info. I highly doubt it involved blood, so I have to assume it's Hep A.
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hopefully for her sake it is A, but people can be relatively symptom-free with B and C for quite a while and not know they have it until much later. CDC also has some stuff about all the types.

B can be sexually transmitted or aquired through needle sticks, shared needles, blood transfusions. At least there's a vaccination available for it though.

C is almost exclusively associated with blood -- needles, transfusions, etc. Supposedly in Pam Anderson's case from a tattoo needle.

Once you have the virus, you're not supposed to drink alcohol as the idea is to stop doing things that will stress an already compromised liver.

FWIW health care workers are more afraid of getting Hep C on the job than AIDS.
 
Originally posted by: SludgeFactory
it's a virus. The word hepatitis means inflammation of the liver.

Type A is transmitted via fecal/oral route and not usually a big deal for most people. B and C are blood borne and much more serious, no cure. There's a vaccine for B, not for C. It affects people to varying degrees, it can progress to cirrhosis and eventually all the way to liver failure.
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Are you a doctor? .......🙂
 
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