Hepatitis A

Hepatitis A is caused by a virus that is spread by feces / stool, the person usually through food (fecal - oral), not through sexual activity or through blood. Hepatitis A is lighter than most other types of hepatitis (B and C). While hepatitis B and C is spread through the media of blood and sexual activity and more dangerous than Hepatitis A.
The incubation period
Time of exposure to illness from approximately 2 to 6 weeks. symptoms you will experience symptoms such as fever, weakness, fatigue, and lethargy, in some cases, vomiting vomiting that often occur continuously thus causing the whole body feels weak. A fever is a fever that occurs continuously, unlike other fever is on dengue fever, tuberculosis, thypus, etc..
Symptoms
Sudden fever, loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, jaundice (yellow skin and eyes), dark colored urine, pale stools. Hepatitis A can be divided into 3 stages: (1) introduction (prodromal) with symptoms of fatigue, lethargy, fever, loss of appetite and nausea, (2) stage with symptoms of yellow (jaundice stage), and (3) stages of healing (konvalesensi) . Yellow symptoms are not always found. To ensure diagnostic examination of liver enzymes, ALT, AST. Because the hepatitis A can also be an inflammation of the bile ducts, then checks gamma-GT and alkaline phosphatase can be done in addition to bilirubin levels.
Suggested Period of Exile
During the 2 weeks after first symptoms or 1 week after jaundice appears.
Prevention
Maintain personal hygiene such as washing hands with soap and running water, people close to the patient may require immunoglobulin therapy. Immunization with hepatitis A can be done in the form itself (Havrix) or form a combination with hepatitis B vaccine (Twinrix). Immunization of hepatitis A occur twice, namely primary and booster vaccinations are carried out 6-12 months later, while hepatitis B immunization performed three times, namely basic, one-month and 6 months later. Hepatitis A immunization is recommended for people potentially infected as boarders and those who frequent snacks outside the home.