Contents:
- Medical Video: Hepatitis (A,B,C,D,E): Symptoms,Types, Causes, Prevention
- What are types?
- What is hepatitis?
- What is the difference between symptoms of typhoid and hepatitis?
- What is the difference between typhoid and hepatitis in terms of disease transmission?
- What are the differences in treatment for people with hepatitis and typhoid?
- What about prevention?
Medical Video: Hepatitis (A,B,C,D,E): Symptoms,Types, Causes, Prevention
Hepatitis is one of the common health problems in developing countries like Indonesia. Just like hepatitis, typhoid is also one of the infectious diseases that threatens the health of the people of the country. Both of these diseases can also be caused by poor personal hygiene. Then what is the difference between typhoid and hepatitis?
What are types?
According to the CDC, typhoid or typhoid fever is an acute infection caused by bacteria Salmonella. These bacteria enter the human body through food or drinks contaminated with feces.
Salmonella bacteria attack the human small intestine, then multiply and spread. The incubation period or the onset of symptoms since bacteria enter the body of typhoid sufferers takes approximately 14 days.
What is hepatitis?
Hepatitis is an inflammatory condition that occurs in human liver cells which can be caused by infections (viruses, bacteria, toxins, parasites), drugs (including traditional medicine), alcohol consumption, and autoimmune diseases. Hepatitis also has several types based on the virus that attacks it, namely hepatitis A, B, C, D, and E.
The incubation period of people who have hepatitis takes different times, hepatitis A requires an average incubation period of 28 days, 120 days of hepatitis B, and 45 days of hepatitis C.
What is the difference between symptoms of typhoid and hepatitis?
In general, there are some of the same symptoms between typhoid and hepatitis, namely nausea, vomiting, dizziness, fever, reduced appetite, and abdominal pain. However, there are main symptoms that distinguish typhus and hepatitis, namely jaundice (jaundice) in hepatitis patients.
Jaundice or often called jaundice is a condition in which body tissue becomes yellowish due to a decrease in the concentration of bilirubin in extracellular fluid in patients who have hepatitis. Whereas the symptoms of typhoid do not occur, but can be found in pink spots on the chest of typhoid patients.
In addition, people who experience hepatitis usually have symptoms of fever. but the difference is in people with typhoid, body temperature tends to increase towards the afternoon, and will decrease to near normal again in the morning.
What is the difference between typhoid and hepatitis in terms of disease transmission?
In typhoid disease, transmission can occur through drinks or foods contaminated with salmonella typhi. The food or drink is contaminated by flies previously attached to vomit, urine, and feces from people with typhoid. The food goes into the human digestive tract, some of the germs from the food die by the influence of stomach acid and some can break into the small intestine.
After entering the small intestine, germs enter the lymph nodes, blood vessels, and throughout the body (especially the liver and bile) so that the sufferer urine contains salmonella bacteria which are ready to contaminate other humans.
In hepatitis, transmission occurs according to the type of virus. In hepatitis A and E, transmission is similar to typhoid, which generally occurs due to contamination of drinking water, uncooked food, contaminated food, poor sanitation, and unclean body hygiene.
While hepatitis B is 95% transmission occurs during labor (mother and child relationship). But it can also occur through blood transfusions, contaminated needles, razors, tattoos, or organ transplants. Hepatitis C transmission can occur through blood and body fluids.
What are the differences in treatment for people with hepatitis and typhoid?
Typhoid disease will usually be treated with antibiotics by a doctor, while hepatitis is different. In patients with hepatitis A, there is no special treatment, only supporting treatment is provided and the nutritional balance is maintained. For hepatitis type B, C, D sufferers, special antivirals and interferon will be given.
What about prevention?
Tipes, hepatitis A, and E can be prevented by maintaining environmental hygiene, especially cleaning food and beverages such as washing hands before eating, drinking, and processing food ingredients. In addition, cook food and beverages until cooked.
For patients with hepatitis B, C, and D can be done by avoiding intercourse with an infected person, avoiding the use of needles, toothbrushes, and joint shavers.
In addition, be careful of the use of tattoos and piercing tools that are not guaranteed to be clean. For newborns, there are immunizations that can prevent transmission of hepatitis.
