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Hepatitis A.
Hepatitis A or Botkin's disease is a liver disease of viral origin, which can manifest itself in the following symptoms: fever, malaise, loss of appetite, diarrhea, vomiting, discomfort in the right hypochondrium, darkening of urine and jaundice. Viral hepatitis A is a common disease: about 1.5 million cases of the disease are registered annually in the world. In the general structure of acute viral hepatitis, it accounts for more than 70% of cases.
50 days is exactly how long it can take from infection to the appearance of the first symptoms.
Traditionally, CAA was considered primarily a childhood, mild, benign disease and therefore did not attract much attention to itself. However, not only children can get Botkin's disease, but also adults, and this "harmless" disease in some cases can even lead to the development of acute liver failure. So you can't be so careless about this disease. And if you consider that the peak morbidity of viral hepatitis A falls precisely in the autumn-winter period, then you should not neglect the need for examination in the laboratory for infection.
After entering the body through the mouth, the hepatitis A virus enters the bloodstream through the intestines. The blood transports the virus to the liver, where it multiplies (hepatocytes, Kupffer cells). Newly formed virions are excreted with bile into the duodenum and are excreted from the body along with feces, a person becomes a source of infection. The release of viral particles in significant quantities occurs about 11 days before the appearance of an immune response in the form of IgM products against hepatitis A virus.
The virus in its structure has one main HAV antigen (a particle of the "body" of the virus that the human immune system recognizes and attacks "exactly" it). The antibodies that are produced against HAV are called Anti-HAV IgM. "IgM" is a class M immunoglobulin that appears in the body from the moment of infection and is a criterion that allows you to diagnose the disease. A year after recovery, these antibodies disappear. In a healthy body, Anti-HAV is normally absent.
You can conduct an examination to detect antibodies to viral hepatitis A - Anti-HAV IgM in any treatment room of the OLYMP CDL, of which there are more than 180 in Kazakhstan!