I had a fever all night on New Year's Eve and a sore throat the next day. Besides a cold, it may be acute hepatitis!

Taking a four-day break, going out on New Year's Eve, partying late at night and drinking and playing in crowded places are the ways for many people to feel the festive atmosphere, but doctors will remind them to be careful of colds and pneumonia. But besides colds and pneumonia, fever may also be one of the symptoms of acute hepatitis.

Acute hepatitis is like a cold! As we all know, the symptoms of a cold are fatigue, headache, fever, sore throat, nausea and vomiting, loss of appetite and so on. But in fact, when the liver is inflamed, there will be similar symptoms. Because the liver is responsible for metabolizing the nutrients ingested by our body and the normal operation of the immune system, if the liver itself is attacked by a virus, similar symptoms will occur.

When most people have acute hepatitis, there will not be too many symptoms at first, but after the symptoms appear, it will last longer than a cold, which may last for a month, but the liver index will return to normal within 6 months at the latest. However, a few people will turn into chronic hepatitis or fulminant hepatitis, and the mortality rate of fulminant hepatitis may reach 80%.

However, the symptoms of a cold or flu usually subside and recover after 1 week. If you have a cold for more than 1 week, you will worry about pneumonia or acute hepatitis. Especially in New Year's Eve, because staying up late, immunity will decline, and drinking will reduce metabolic enzymes in the liver, which is easy to get inflamed.

Where does hepatitis come from? Generally speaking, the more common acute hepatitis is viral hepatitis and alcoholic hepatitis. If people have the habit of taking painkillers such as acetaminophen (such as Panadol), it may also cause acute hepatitis because of drugs.

Viral hepatitis is common in hepatitis A, hepatitis B and hepatitis C.. Hepatitis A may spread through unclean seafood, unclean food or water, food or drink eaten by others, etc. Hepatitis B and C carriers may induce virus activity due to staying up late and drinking alcohol, causing acute hepatitis attack.

Especially in wet and cold weather, if you go out, you will be squeezed into a crowded and closed place. Although the public space is warm, it will also cause the spread of the virus. Although hepatitis A is rarely spread in Taiwan Province Province, there are still many countries in Southeast Asia. If you want to go abroad for the New Year, you should pay attention to the vaccination first, and then go to the epidemic prevention unit for inspection and follow-up after returning home.

How to prevent hepatitis? If you really want to stay up late for the New Year and celebrate by drinking, you must supplement the vitamin B group the next day to help the metabolism and repair of liver cells. If you drink, you must make up. The next day, we should also pay attention to who is a healthy protein. Don't eat or drink the day before or the day after staying up late. Not only the liver but also the stomach can't stand it.

Remember that if you have the habit of taking painkillers, don't take more than 8 tablets a day, and don't drink alcohol on the day of taking the medicine. If you really want to drink, you should take it at intervals of more than 2 hours.

In addition, if you feel that you haven't recovered from your cold for more than 1 week, or have symptoms of jaundice, it is suggested that you can go to the hospital to take blood to check whether there is liver function problem and confirm whether there is acute hepatitis.