Hepatitis

are hepatitis B, hepatitis C , and human immunodeficiency virus. These pathogens can cause serious health problems. HIV can lead to AIDS, which is a life threatening disease that attacks your immune system. Many humans around the world suffer from bloodborne pathogens, they can damage many important organs and are spread in many ways. The most common and life threatening bloodborne pathogen is HBV, which we will focus on. Drug injections are the most prominent source of infection for hepatitis,…

15,000 of them died. Hepatitis A Hepatitis A virus causes liver disease, which can result in fever, loss of appetite, fatigue, stomach pain, vomiting, and yellow skin or eyes (jaundice). Children younger than about…

In 2007, American Indian and Alaska Natives were twice as likely to develop a case of Hepatitis C (HCV) as the white population (NIH, 2014). Oklahoma's Acute Hepatitis C Incidence Rates is more than 3 times higher than the US average (OSDH, 2010). I would like to see a decline of HCV in the Native American population because the amount of Native Americans in Oklahoma. In the 2010 US Census there were 482,760 American Indian and Alaska Natives in Oklahoma (CDC, 2010). With improved prevention…

These viruses are called, Common Virus, Flu Virus, Stomach Virus, Hepatitis Virus , and Sexual-Intercourse and Blood Virus. The Common Virus is caused by colds.Which mean you get sick from another person and that person may have has or had the Common Virus cold. It also affects 1 billion people per year. Which means it…

Hepatitis C is a blood-borne infection that can damage the liver and cause it to swell, eventually leading to cirrhosis. Hepatitis C virus spreads through contact with infected blood, such as form of needlestick accident, injection drug use, or receiving blood transfusion. Also, Hepatitis C can be spread through sexual contact with an infected person or at time of childbirth, from mother to newborn. About 1 in 4 people with chronic hepatitis C develop cirrhosis. Hepatitis B also causes…

addition, Mr. Smith also had yellow eyes and an enlarged liver. The assessment also included the patient’s medical record which provides the patient’s medical, social, and family history. Lastly, lab tests performed determined that Mr. Smith has Hepatitis B. Taylor’s Fundamentals of Nursing: 8th Edition explains that, “reports of laboratory studies…include [with] objective data (observable and measurable data that can be seen, heard, felt, or measured by someone else) that can [can] either…

disease. (131) Certain patients with chronic hepatitis B will profit from early intervention with antiviral therapy or screening to detect hepatocellular carcinoma at an early stage. 4) Household, sexual, and needle-sharing contacts of chronically infected individuals should be identified. Unvaccinated sex partners and household and needle-sharing contacts should be tested for susceptibility to HBV infection and should receive the first dose of hepatitis B vaccine instantly after collection of…

After reading this week Junaral self-assessment mostly consisted of sexual risk, STDs and sexual transmitted diseases. But in more depth. Among men ,and Men assessment it was considered the relationship between two Men Learned a lot within never even imagine some relation would happen. It has made me think, although it was interesting. I had always afraid of affection disease. Due to my job, we also have some people that had a different type of infection. In some cases, epidemics…

The claimant is a 42-year old female who was diagnosed with cellulitis of the left lower extremity, bacteremia, methadone dependence, transaminitis, and hepatitis C. He had a past medical history of significant IV drug abuse hepatitis C infection and was admitted recently to Nazareth Hospital secondary to left lower extremity and ankle cellulitis. He was started on IV ampicillin via PICC line and was discharged to a rehabilitation center. It was noted that he was switched to Vancomycin. The…

According to Baylor Health and the Mayo Clinic there are several diagnostic and long term complications associated with Cirrhosis of the Liver. Both hepatitis and cirrhosis show very few warning signs, such as flu-like symptoms, tiredness, fever, nausea, loss of appetite, and pain can occur under the ribs on the right side of the abdomen, and jaundice. In hepatitis B and C, viral particles may be in the body producing a chronic infection that lasts for years. This can ultimately lead to…