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不能治癒性傳播疾病-傳染
Incurable
STDs - Infections |
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乙型肝炎
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黃疸
約一半的肝炎病人所呈現的外貌
Jaundice
appears in about half of all hepatitis cases
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4.
症狀是什麼？
乙型肝炎也常常被稱為“隱匿疾病”，因為許多感染者從未意識到自己已經染上了病。假若有症狀的話，也要到數周或數月後才能夠出現。可是，其中大多數感染者根本就不發病或僅有暫時流感樣症狀，諸如疲勞、食欲不振、渾身關節與肌肉疼痛和低燒等症狀。只有少數病人發展成更嚴重的“急性肝炎”。這種病人另外的症狀之一是可能出現“黃疸”，也就是皮膚和眼睛發黃。無論如何，大多數病人數周後會恢復健康，而且決不會再有任何肝炎症狀。
某些“急性肝炎”病人隨後發展成“慢性肝炎”。同樣的地，他們可以根本無症狀，或可能有一系列症狀出現，少數人的症狀非常嚴重並且衰弱不堪。有的症狀或併發症甚至可能威脅到生命，諸如肝硬化（皺縮和疤痕形成）或肝癌。5.
如何診斷？
因為許多感染者僅有輕微和暫時的症狀或根本無症狀，僅有的可靠診斷方法是血液檢測。
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Hepatitis
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4. What are the symptoms?
Hepatitis B is often also called a “silent disease”, because many infected people never realize that they have it. If there are symptoms, they do not develop until a few weeks or months after the infection. Most of the infected, however, do not get sick at all or have only temporary flu-like symptoms like fatigue, a loss of appetite, pain in various joints and muscles, a light fever etc. Only in a minority of patients is this “acute hepatitis” more serious. Among other problems, they may develop “jaundice”, i.e. a yellow coloration of the eyes and the skin. Anyway, most patients recover after a few weeks and never have any hepatitis problems again.
In some cases “acute hepatitis” is followed by “chronic hepatitis”. Again, there may be no symptoms at all, or there may be a variety of problems, some of them very serious and debilitating. They may even be life-threatening like cirrhosis (shrinking and scarring) of the liver or liver cancer.5. How is it diagnosed?
Since many people infected with HBV have only slight, temporary symptoms or no symptoms at all, the only certain way to diagnose the disease is a blood test.
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