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Needles And Syringes Scar Tissue
1,117 words... deathly and apply pressure on the area for a few minutes. An ice pack or crushed ice in a tea towel will also help reduce any bleeding or pain). To inject into the thigh, divide the thigh from the knee to the hip in thirds by drawing three imaginary horizontal lines across it. Inject into the outer part of the middle section. The thigh has more exposed nerves and veins than the backside. Place a cotton ball over the injection site if the oil based steroid dribbles out a little bit - this sug...
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Bodily Fluids Liver Damage
705 wordsHepatitis is the term given to inflammation of the liver. Hepatitis is most commonly caused by viruses, but is usually accustomed to individuals who drink heavily for a many number of years. Hepatitis can cause your liver to become inflamed, swollen, and tender. If the infection is severe and prolonged without treatment the liver may become scarred, causing cirrhosis of the liver. The complications of hepatitis and cirrhosis are liver failure and cancer. Usually resulting Although there are many...
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Blood Flow Hepatitis B
826 wordsCirrhosis is a serious disease of the liver where scar tissue replaces normal healthy tissue, and affects the function and structure of the liver. Liver, which is the largest organ in the body, has a vital roles which are important to keep the body functioning well. Liver makes proteins and enzymes that regulate blood clotting. It also regulates cholesterol and stores the energy. In addition, the liver removes poisons from the blood. 30 % of cirrhosis's victims are diagnosed will remain alive fo...
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Hepatitis C Illegal Drugs
1,264 wordsMy uncle was not the only person to become infected with the hepatitis C virus, but in fact many people are presently struggling to keep it under control. Today four million Americans are infected with the hepatitis C virus and there are thirty thousand new cases of this virus found each year (Turkington 9). Hepatitis C takes ten thousand lives each year just in the United States, and without effective treatment the death rate is expected to triple in the next fifteen years (Turkington 9). Seven...
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White Blood Cells Chronic Hepatitis
1,189 words... twelve weeks of contact with the virus (Hoofnagle). The most common symptoms are those of flu (McCarthy, Rose). They are fatigue, nausea, poor appetite, fever, chills, headaches, sore throat, and joint pain (Turkington 34). These symptoms last only for about a week so many people ignore them and go back to their normal lives. If not treated at first symptoms, the patient will develop chronic hepatitis. Chronic hepatitis is where the disease becomes persistent (Hoofnagle). Chronic hepatitis c...
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B And C Loss Of Appetite
832 wordsThere are different ways that hepatitis B or C can be caught. They are spread by contact with infected blood or other body fluids of people who are infected with hepatitis B or C. Having sex with an infected person is an example of how you could be infected. When people who use intravenous drugs share needles with someone who has the virus, they can get hepatitis B or C. Health care workers, like nurses, lab technicians and doctors, can get infected if accidentally stuck with a needle used on an...
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Months Of Age Hepatitis B
655 wordsGeneral Information In the general population, hepatitis B is considered primarily a sexually transmitted disease. It is also transmitted in blood and, prior to the availability of hepatitis B vaccine, health care professionals such as doctors, nurses, and emergency personnel were at risk for contracting hepatitis B. Because it is easily transmitted by blood (one virus particle can cause disease), intravenous drug users who share needles and syringes are at extremely high risk. The other common ...
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Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infected With Hiv
1,219 wordsWhatBloodbourne Pathogens Bloodborne Pathogens What are Bloodborne Pathogens? Bloodborne Pathogens are pathogenic microorganisms that can eventually cause disease. They are found in human blood and other bodily fluids such as synovial fluid, semen, vaginal secretions, cerebrospinal fluid and any other fluid that mixes or has contact with blood. The bloodborne pathogens are pathogenic, which means they are disease causing, and they are also microorganisms, which means that they are very small so ...
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Older Adults Body Fluids
558 wordsWorks Cited Fackelmann, Kathleen. The Hepatitis G Enigma. Science News Apr 13, 1996: 238 - 239. UMI Company. CD-ROM. Unknown Author. Hepatitis C. MAYO Summer 199 New York State Dept. of Health. Hepatitis A. [Online] Available gopher: hepa. txt at mole. health. state. ny. us, 11 - 13 - 96 New York State Dept. of Health. Hepatitis C. [Online] Available gopher: hepa. txt at mole. health. state. ny. us, 11 - 13 - 96 Rossi, Lisa. Hepatitis. [Online] Available usenet: web Schlepphorst, Richard. Octobe...
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Hepatitis A Vaccine Risk Of Contracting Disease
364 wordsInfectious hepatitis is a contagious liver disease, which is sometimes fatal. Infectious hepatitis is more commonly known as hepatitis A because of the virus that causes it. This disease infects around 143, 000 people in the United States per year. Hepatitis A is found in the feces of an infected person. The virus is spread through person to person contact or through contaminated water and food. Infectious hepatitis has many symptoms that are not always detectable. The main symptoms are fever, c...
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Hepatitis B Body Piercing
545 wordsImagine Hepatitis B Hepatitis B Imagine that one morning you wake up feeling very tired and weak. Your sick to your stomach, have a high fever, and on top of all of that, your stools, eyes, skin and urine have all become a yellowish tint. You figure that it will go away on it? s own and that it is really no big deal at all. But lately you have been feeling very tired and not had the appetite you usually hold. You then go to a doctor to see what? s wrong, and how he can stop this very strange thi...
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Health Care Workers Chronic Hepatitis
1,367 wordsRisk Factors for HBV Infection Although relatively rare in the United States, hepatitis B is endemic in parts of Asia where hundreds of millions of individuals may be infected. HBV is transmitted horizontally by blood and blood products and sexual transmission. It is also transmitted vertically from mother to infant in the perinatal period which is a major mode of transmission in regions where hepatitis B is endemic. The blood supply in developed countries has been screened for HBV for many year...
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Hepatitis B B Virus
271 wordsThe Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) HBV is a mostly double-stranded DNA virus in the Hepadnaviridae family. HBV causes hepatitis in human and related virus in this family cause hepatitis in ducks, ground squirrels and woodchucks. The HBV genome has four genes: pol, env, pre-core and X that respectively encode the viral DNA-polymerase, envelope protein, pre-core protein (which is processed to viral capsid) and protein X. The function of protein X is not clear but it may be involved in the activation of h...
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Hepatitis C Higher Risk
559 wordsHepatitis C, a relatively new disease that is not commonly know about as much as disease like Hepatitis A or B. However, this disease is very serious. Hepatitis C is an infection of the liver. This report will set some facts straight about Hepatitis C and try to give a better understanding of the potentially deadly disease. As stated before, Hep C is an infection of the liver. More precisely it is a single strand RNA virus that replicates in the liver, causing the liver to become severely infect...
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Chronic Hepatitis Liver Damage
661 wordsFor my final Hepatitis Introduction For my final paper, I will do research on Hepatitis C for recognition targeted towards technical publications as JAMA, New England Journal Of Medicine etc. Hepatitis C (HCV) causes inflammation of the liver and can cause liver damage leading to cirrhosis. Occasionally, liver cancer may develop. First called non-A non-B hepatitis, hepatitis C was discovered in the early 1970? s, but it wasn? t until 1989 that testing for specific antibodies to the virus began. ...
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Loss Of Appetite Nausea Vomiting
1,628 wordsTHE PRIORITY OF HEPATITIS B VACCINATIONS IN CANADA The increase in the number of children attending schools in Canada and the potential for transmission of viral infection in that environment is a problem of great size. A virus is defined as a morbid principle, or a poisonous venom, especially one capable of being introduced into another person or animal in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. Due to their miniscule size, it was not until 1885 that Adolf Mayer observed their existence in the m...
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Needles And Syringes Scar Tissue
2,336 wordsInjection Techniques, Part 1 INJECTING STEROIDS There is much debate surrounding the question of whether injectable steroids are more or less effective and safe than oral steroids. It is suggested that the oral steroids, which have a special 17 -? alkyl ated chemical structure making them active orally and more difficult for the liver to break down, may be more toxic to the liver. In addition, these oral steroids are subject to first pass metabolism meaning the liver is exposed to the drug at it...
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