What are the symptoms of viral hepatitis?

The harm caused by viral hepatitis is very serious, so it is necessary to detect and treat it as early as possible. If you experience symptoms such as loss of appetite, fever, and frequent feeling of weakness, you must go to the hospital for an active and comprehensive examination.

Loss of appetite

Disgusting oil

This is a symptom common in most hepatitis patients, especially in patients with jaundice hepatitis, where the symptoms are more severe. The liver is the largest "chemical factory" in the human body and is involved in all metabolic processes in the body. Among them, secreting bile is one of the important functions, and the bile salts in bile play an important role in the absorption and digestion of fat. After suffering from hepatitis, the hepatitis virus induces a large number of liver cells to be destroyed, and the function of bile secretion is reduced, which affects the digestion of fat, so the patient will have an aversion to oily food. When suffering from hepatitis, the gastrointestinal tract will be congested and edema, the peristalsis will be weakened, and the gastrointestinal dysfunction will be disordered, which will affect the patient's food digestion and absorption, so it will cause the patient to have loss of appetite, nausea and aversion to greasy food. Acute viral hepatitis can cause symptoms such as loss of appetite.

Fever is common early on

Fever: Fever is common in the early stages of acute icteric hepatitis, mostly between 37.5 and 38.5 degrees Celsius. High fever is rare and usually lasts for 3 to 5 days. The fever of those without icteric hepatitis is much lower than that of those with icteric hepatitis. Many patients have fever accompanied by general discomfort and loss of appetite, and mistakenly think they have a cold. A considerable number of patients with jaundice-type hepatitis are often treated for a cold in hospital outpatient clinics and are not diagnosed until jaundice appears 3-5 days later. This is due to a lack of knowledge about the fever symptoms of hepatitis. The cause of fever may be hepatocellular necrosis, liver dysfunction, reduced detoxification and excretion function, or viremia.

Yellow urine

Under normal circumstances, the life span of human red blood cells in icteric hepatitis is 120 days. The damaged red blood cells will release hemoglobin, which will undergo a series of decomposition and metabolism and turn into a yellow substance called bilirubin. Because the hepatitis virus causes liver cell damage, it affects the metabolism of bilirubin, causing more bilirubin to enter the blood and be excreted through urine than usual, so the urine color becomes darker. The yellower the urine is, the more severe the damage to the liver cells is. As the condition improves, the urine color will gradually return to normal.