Botkin's disease, despite all the merits of medicine, and is now widely spread in society. To know how to protect yourself from hepatitis, it is worth paying attention to the signs of this disease and its prevention.
Botkin's disease, and in other words - epidemic hepatitis, was known to doctors long ago. Usually, the therapists engaged in it, because they saw this approach to the healing of the disease. In 1888, Sergei Petrovich Botkin made one suggestion, and soon he justified it, that catarrhal jaundice (at that time it was exactly the name of the disease) is contagious and acts destructively not only on the liver, but also on the whole organism. Already in Russian time, scientists have identified a hepatitis virus and confirmed the theory of Botkin.
Botkin's disease in the human body can be provoked by viruses of two types - type A and type B. The source of the disease is a person who either has a disease, or the virus in his body is still in the incubation stage. Wednesday, which is the pathogen - blood, liver, gastric juice. But you can get infected and fecal-oral method, when the hepatitis virus is released into the environment by an unhealthy person and already carries a danger to others. In this regard, special attention should be paid to personal hygiene and food hygiene - basically wash their hands after being in public places, and vegetables and fruits - before consumption, also adhere to the rules for making food (observe the temperature regime and t. Hepatitis can be infected with blood transfusions, injections, honey and cosmetic manipulations.
Botkin's disease first affects the liver, and already the liver affects the entire body. The metabolism is broken, the composition of blood changes. Before the manifestation of symptoms, the pathogen can persist in the human body from 2 weeks to a month. With all this, the carrier, without knowing it himself, can infect others.
Botkin's disease, the symptoms of which appear quite obvious, do not cause problems in diagnosis. Usually in the first phase of patients fever, they have a broken stool on the nature of dyspepsia. The condition of the organism is significantly worsened - patients note lethargy, pain in the right hypochondrium in the liver, lack of appetite, nausea. The temperature can rise above subfebrile.
The very height of the disease is very revealing. Skin patches of unhealthy Botkin get a yellowish color, in particular it is noticeable on the proteins of the eyes, a little later turns yellow face, body, limbs. The peak of the disease is from the 4th to the seventh day.
During this period, the unhealthy are especially tired, do not want to move. They experience migraine, itching on the skin, no matter what help others around them are annoying. The blood pressure decreases, the pulse becomes less frequent. The liver grows in size, it is easy to find when palpating. It can change in size (in the direction of growth) of the spleen. Clinical tests of blood and urine show an overestimated bilirubin, while feces, on the contrary, are lowered.
Health. Sumy. Ua.