Learn about hepatitis A & E, their transmission, prevention, and treatment. Stay informed to protect your health and society.
Protecting Yourself: Understanding and Preventing Hepatitis A and E
Hepatitis A and E share symptoms and routes of transmission, and both can spread through a whole community — often carried home by travellers. This guide by hepatologist Dr. Seyed-Moayed Alavian explains prevalence, transmission, prevention, and treatment, with the practical measures that keep households and societies safe.
Author
Publisher
Pouyan Kowsar Health Publishing, 1st Edition
Publication date
May 11, 2022
Print length
82 pages
Language
English
ISBN
978-622-94614-4-0
Sponsored by
Salamat Pooyan
Audience
Travellers, patients, families, and the general public
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The full text is freely available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 licence for personal, non-commercial use. For commercial or institutional use, contact the publisher.
About this book
Hepatitis A and E are two causes of acute viral hepatitis with similar symptoms and similar routes of transmission. When they appear epidemically they put an entire society at risk, and they travel: infections commonly appear in travellers moving from developed to developing countries.
Preventing infection depends on strict hygiene and on access to safe drinking water and safe food. A hepatitis A vaccine is available and immunisation is recommended in many countries. This book addresses the prevalence, transmission routes, prevention, and treatment of both viruses across its chapters.
The prevalence, transmission routes, prevention, and treatment of these types of hepatitis are addressed in different chapters of this book; hopefully, they can be of help in ensuring the overall health of the society.Seyed Moayed Alavian, MD — Professor of Hepatology, from the author's introduction
Contents
Six chapters, from digestive anatomy to hepatitis E.
| Chapter | Page |
|---|---|
| 1. Structure and function of the gastrointestinal tract | 9 |
| 2. What is hepatitis? | 19 |
| 3. Hepatitis A — introduction | 29 |
| 4. Clinical symptoms | 43 |
| 5. Prevention of hepatitis A | 53 |
| 6. Hepatitis E | 61 |
Note. This book is patient and public education, not a substitute for individual medical advice; vaccination and treatment decisions should be made with a clinician. Copyright: published freely for personal, non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial 4.0 International License. For other uses, ask the publisher for permission.