HEPATITIS

1. Person loses appetite.

2. Does not wish to eat or smoke.

3. Wants to vomit (nausea).

4. Eyes and skin turn yellow.

5. Urine orange or brown.

6. Stool whitish.

7. Sometimes liver becomes large and tender.

8. Mild fever.

9. Person very weak.Hepatitis

TYPHUS

Similar to typhoid.Rash similar to that of measles, with tiny bruises.Typhus

TYPHOID

Typhoid begins like a cold. Temperature goes up a little more each day.

Pulse relatively slow. Sometimes diarrhea and dehydration.

Trembling or dedelirium (mind wanders). Person very ill.Typhoid

MALARIA

Malaria begins with feeling week, cold and shivery, as the temperature rises. Fever may continue up and down for several days, unless treated with sweating as the temperature falls, and shivering (rigors) as it rises again.

Occasionally, malaria gives fever every second or third day. The sick person feels more or less well on the days between.Malaria

CONFUSION BETWEEN DIFFERENT ILLNESSES THAT CAUSE FEVER

Correctly speaking, a fever is a body temperature higher than normal. But a number of serious illnesses that cause high temperature are called fever.

To prevent or treat these diseases successfully, it is important to know how to tell one from another.Fever

LEPROSY

Some villagers call any open spreading sore leprosy. This leads to confusion, because medical workers use this term only for true lwprosy (Hansen's disease). Sores commonly called leprosy are

1. Impetigo and other skin infections.

2. Sores that come from insect bites or scabies.

3. Chronic sores or skin ulcers such as those caused by poor circulation.

4. Skin cancer.

5. Less commonly, leprosy or tuberculosis of the skin.Leprosy

CANCER

Some villagers use the word cancer for any severe infection of the skin, especially badly infected wounds or gangrene.

In modern medical language, cancer is not an infection, but an abnormal growth of lump in any part of the body. Common types of cancer that you should watch out for are cancer of the skin, breast cancer, cancer of the womb or overies.Cancer

Any hard, painless, slowly growing lump in any part of your body may be cancer. Cancer is often dangerous and may need surgery

Please note that, at the first suspicion of cancer, seek medical help.