Hepatitis A
Alternate Names : Hepatovirus Infection
What are the signs and symptoms of the infection?
Symptoms can range from mild to moderate and include:
nausea
jaundice. This skin yellowing
usually lasts a week or two and is accompanied by darkened urine.
malaise, or a vague feeling of
illness
fatigue
pain in the upper right of the stomach
hypoglycemia, or low blood
sugar
diarrhea
mild
fever
a somewhat enlarged and tender liver
weight
loss as a result of loss of appetite
The symptoms gradually improve. Children with hepatitis A often do not have
symptoms.
Rarely, acute fulminant hepatitis, which involves severe
liver cell destruction and loss of liver function, occurs. It can be fatal.
Symptoms include:
an enlarged, painful liver
enlarged spleen
severe
jaundice
susceptibility to bleeding
encephalopathy, a disorder in the functioning of the brain
aplastic
anemia in rare cases.
Aplastic anemia is a condition in which the bone marrow cannot make enough red
and white blood cells.
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