Hepatitis A called «Disease of unwashed hands». Of all the hepatitis, this is the most common and thermal-loving infection, which means that it is easiest to catch it in the summer. How to save children from infection with hepatitis A how to cope with the disease at home and prevent the disease?
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Features of infection with hepatitis A
Infection usually «Pick up» in the summer season, but the disease has a long incubation period, and symptoms can manifest itself after a half or more months after infection. And susceptibility to Virus absolute. This means that if a child with him accidentally faces and in time carefully does not wash his hands, vegetables and fruits, breadfinding water from river or from an unknown puddle, it will be ill necessarily.
Pretty hepatitis A virus and the body is quite difficult, although it is the least dangerous to health. But due to the risk of complications, this disease belongs to the category of very serious. First of all, biliary ways suffer: cholecystitis is most often developing, various discsion. Gets and pancreas, its defeat – part of the painful process. As a result – Chronic options of pancreatitis. To top it all – Weakness, fatigue, reduction of tone, immunity. But if I got sick, immunity to infection remains for life.
«Unwashed hand deserves to be severed»
So the healers of antiquity said. And not in vain. Hepatitis A is transmitted by fecal-oral by. Simply put, this is a disease of the unwitched hands. Most often, the pathogen enters the body through the mouth – in the gastrointestinal tract, after which he penetrates the lymph nodes and then in the liver. Here it has a destructive effect on liver cells (hepatocytes). Not only dirty hands can be fault, but also infected items, such as dishes, children's toys, poorly washed vegetables, fruits, as well as thermally untreated food.
It should be noted that usually the virus is not transmitted from pregnant to the fetus. But if the baby is born prematurely, and the mother got into infection shortly before childbirth, the child can be born with hepatitis A.
Children's intestinal infection
And yet kids up to a year infection usually do not suffer because they are protected by maternal antibodies. As a rule, older children are ill. More often suffer from younger schoolchildren.
Fortunately, modern test systems allow you to identify the virus already at the beginning of the incubation period. It is important to eliminate the infection of others, as the infection is transmitted to another long before the development of clinical symptoms.
In case of a child, the child increases the temperature, weakness, fatigue, headache, lubrication in the joints, itching of the skin, vomiting. And in a week – Maximum two it becomes like a large chicken. As soon as the sick yellower, he is already practically indifferent and recovered in a couple of weeks, shattering with hepatitis A forever. But far from always the disease flows in the jaggildly. And then even doctors confuse her with a banal orz. Indeed, the symptoms are similar. In order not to miss the rude infection, you need to carefully observe the condition of the patient.
one. At ARZ, the patient has a temperature, and it begins to feel better. This does not happen when hepatitis A. No temperatures, and the condition does not improve. Suitted sluggish, apathetic, falls asleep several times a day.
2. And at normal temperature there is no appetite, vomiting appears. Often nauseous even at the sight of food. Vomiting is unusual, not like when poisoning, when from a person several times in a row «falls out» Literally all edible. It is not purified, not multiple, but stubborn: manifests itself a few days in a row.
3. If even a few months later, when quarantine is already removed, in the courtyard, school, kindergarten, somewhere on vacation you heard about the disease, be alert. Infectious bridge may become unrecognized rude cases.
4. Urine analysis does not reveal the rude. A biochemical blood test is needed, which will confirm the presence of a virus in the body. These analyzes can be done in any regional clinic. And which hepatitis from the diseased, they will determine in a specialized medical institution.
If doctors diagnosed «hepatitis A», not necessarily go to the hospital. The main disease – Correct care. The sick needed a separate room, it is necessary to exclude by the possibility of contacts, especially with children, because the probability of infection is though insignificant, but still exists. In medications for restoring the functions of the liver, the patient absolutely does not need. He needs only a diet, and add polivitamins to it, you can drink a choleretic herbs – cornflower, hunter.
Milk, fermented milk products, cottage cheese; Boiled and steam low-fat meat – beef, chickens, rabbit (veal, chickens are undesirable); Boiled non-fat fish – Cod, Sudak, Pike, Carp, Sazan; Dishes and garnish of vegetables – Potatoes, carrots, beets, raw and non-acid sauerkraut, fresh cucumbers, tomatoes (in small quantities), green peas; Nonxal fruits and berries, jam, honey; Soup cereal, vegetable, dairy; Various porridges and pasta, bread, mainly wheat, coarse grinding, baking the previous day; Cookies and other products from non-proper test.
Tips parents
In order not to get hepatitis A, you need to wash your arms before meals, there are only well washed fruits. Watch that recently learned to walk the baby did not get acquainted to the toilet, hallways, do not allow him to play with street shoes. Child drinking water let's only special, from plastic bottles purchased in the store, and the water supply must be boiling. Never buy food, especially cheese, sour cream, cottage cheese, sausage, in uncivilized markets. If someone in the family fell ill with hepatitis, treat it things, toys, dishes chloramine, eliminate communication with comrades. The main way to resist hepatitis A – Timely vaccination. It is necessary primarily by the kids in closed teams, children who leave for summer holidays both in Russia and abroad.
