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Can hepatitis c patient be in the same room with a liver cirrhosis patient?
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What is the liver disease caused by drinking heavily over many years?
Alcoholic hepatitis is an inflammation of the liver. Up to 35 percent of heavy drinkers develop alcoholic hepatitis. Symptoms may include loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain and tenderness, fever and jaundice. In its mild form, alcoholic hepatitis can last for years and will cause progressive liver damage. The damage may be reversible if you stop drinking. In its severe form, the disease may occur suddenly, after binge drinking, and it can quickly lead to life-threatening complications.Alcoholic cirrhosis is the most serious type of alcohol-induced liver disease.Cirrhosis refers to the replacement of normal liver tissue with scar tissue. Between 10 and 20 percent of heavy drinkers develop cirrhosis, usually after 10 or more years of drinking. Symptoms of cirrhosis are similar to those of alcoholic hepatitis. The damage from cirrhosis is not reversible, and it is a life-threatening disease. Your condition may stabilize if you stop drinking.Many heavy drinkers will progress from fatty liver to alcoholic hepatitis and finally to alcoholic cirrhosis, though the progression may vary from patient to patient. The risk of developing cirrhosis is particularly high for people who drink heavily and have another chronic liver disease such as viral hepatitis C.source:http://www.liverfoundation.org/education/info/alcohol/
What is the name of the organism that causes hepatitis b?
Hepatitis B is a viral infection. It is a virus. Only one virus causes Hepatitis B. It infects the liver. A vaccine exists to prevent it. It is blood borne. If you are in the same room with someone who has it, you will not catch it. Do not share needles, razors, or anything that could move their body fluids to you. Hepatitis B can be treated. Other liver infections exist. Hepatitis A generally results when an infected person prepares your food. Hepatitis C is blood borne. Anything one person does that gets body fluids from one person into another spreads the virus. Hepatitis D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, and M also exist. Those liver infections are caused by different pathogens. (I do not have the first idea about any of those diseases. Someone came back from Atlanta and passed on that information.)
What can cause Hepatitis B?
Hepatitis B is a viral infection. It is a virus. Only one virus causes Hepatitis B. It infects the liver. A vaccine exists to prevent it. It is blood borne. If you are in the same room with someone who has it, you will not catch it. Do not share needles, razors, or anything that could move their body fluids to you. Hepatitis B can be treated. Other liver infections exist. Hepatitis A generally results when an infected person prepares your food. Hepatitis C is blood borne. Anything one person does that gets body fluids from one person into another spreads the virus. Hepatitis D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, and M also exist. Those liver infections are caused by different pathogens. (I do not have the first idea about any of those diseases. Someone came back from Atlanta and passed on that information.)
How many times to wash hands after examining a patient with hepatitis?
That exam is based on blood tests. The hepatologist or a medical doctor don't need to touch a patient with hepatitis. He only need to read the test results. Medical personnel, in general, are fully aware of the procedures when they examine a patient who carries a contagious disease. For an infectious patient, they gown up and put on gloves before entering the room. Before contact with another patient you hope that they wash their hands thoroughly, but with the advent of Purell, that may be all you get.
Hepatitis B is not trasmitted by which methods?
Hepatitis B is transmitted from infected blood. This may occur through: - Mother to child through the placenta or breast feeding - Sex - Intra-venous drug use (IVDU) among other methods. You can avoid catching it by practising safe sex, avoiding IVDU and by getting vaccinated (usually in 3 injections over about 6 - 12 months). There are 400 million carriers world-wide, 1.25 million in the USA alone (0.42% of the population). So in a room of 250 Americans, one person carries Hep B (statistically speaking). It Hep B virus causes inflammation of the liver, and liver cirrhosis (liver destruction) and is responsible for 1,000,000 deaths per year world-wide. It can be treated with anti-viral therapy for selected patients, with varying success. Hope this helps! - Qu.mstr
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A patient room.
Cirrhosis?
AST is usually higher than ALT but levels are usually lower than in alcoholic disease
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Another meningitis patieny
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The Patient in Room 18 - 1938 is rated/received certificates of: USA:Approved (PCA #3722)
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What is the singular possessive form for patient?
The possessive form of the singular noun patient is patient's.Example: The patient's room was filled with visitors.
