{"id":100,"date":"2021-11-23T17:15:44","date_gmt":"2021-11-23T17:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theempathycampaign.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/23\/hepatitis-a-the-empathy-campaign\/"},"modified":"2021-11-23T17:15:44","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T17:15:44","slug":"hepatitis-a-the-empathy-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theempathycampaign.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/23\/hepatitis-a-the-empathy-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Hepatitis A \u2013 The Empathy Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/theempathycampaign.com\/hepatitis-a\/\">Skip to content<\/a>\n<p><strong>What is Hepatitis A?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hepatitis A is disease affecting the liver caused by a virus known as Hepatitis A virus.<\/li>\n<li>The disease affects both children and adults.<\/li>\n<li>This disease is mostly mild in nature and patients often recover fully.<\/li>\n<li>However, in a small percentage of patients, it can be very severe and sometimes lead to death.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>How is Hepatitis A Transmitted<\/strong><br \/>\nThe hepatitis A virus (HAV) is transmitted through ingestion of contaminated food and water or through direct contact with an infectious person.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are the symptoms and signs that appear when you have Hepatitis A?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fever<\/li>\n<li>Malaise<\/li>\n<li>Loss of appetite<\/li>\n<li>Diarrhea<\/li>\n<li>Nausea<\/li>\n<li>Abdominal discomfort<\/li>\n<li>Dark coloured urine<\/li>\n<li>light coloured stool<\/li>\n<li>Jaundice<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>How is Hepatitis A treated?<\/strong><br \/>\nThere is no specific treatment to Hepatitis A. The doctor will try to relieve your symptoms.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are the ways of prevention?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Safe water supply, food safety, improved sanitation, regular hand washing and hepatitis A vaccine are the most effective ways to prevent oneself from getting the disease.<\/li>\n<li>Talk with your doctor about how to protect your family from hepatitis A.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What are the symptoms and signs that appear when you have Hepatitis A?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fever<\/li>\n<li>Malaise<\/li>\n<li>Loss of appetite<\/li>\n<li>Diarrhea<\/li>\n<li>Nausea<\/li>\n<li>Abdominal discomfort<\/li>\n<li>Dark coloured urine<\/li>\n<li>light coloured stool<\/li>\n<li>Jaundice<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>How is Hepatitis A treated?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There is no specific treatment to Hepatitis A. The doctor will try to relieve your symptoms.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are the ways of prevention?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Safe water supply, food safety, improved sanitation, regular hand washing and hepatitis A vaccine are the most effective ways to prevent oneself from getting the disease.<\/li>\n<li>Talk with your doctor about how to protect your family from hepatitis A.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Vaccination<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2 Doses are needed that are given at least 6 months apart.<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/theempathycampaign.com\/hepatitis-a\/\"><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Skip to content What is Hepatitis A? Hepatitis A is disease affecting the liver caused by a virus known as Hepatitis A virus. The disease affects both children and adults. This disease is mostly mild in nature and patients often recover fully. However, in a small percentage of patients, it can be very severe and [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theempathycampaign.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theempathycampaign.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theempathycampaign.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theempathycampaign.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theempathycampaign.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theempathycampaign.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theempathycampaign.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theempathycampaign.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theempathycampaign.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}