Thursday, January 12, 2012

Is this autoimmune hepatitis? scared :-(?

He obviously has some type of problem if his counts are up but its hard to tell if it's autoimmune hepatitis. The best way to know is have his ANA checked and possibly a liver biopsy. A few other symptoms you can watch out for is jaundice, joint pain, abdominal pain (on the right side), fatigue, nausea, swelling of the liver, and loss of appetite. Those are pretty common if its hepatitis. His counts are high enough that they should be watched but not high enough to stress too much. It's pretty unlikely that it's AIH given his gender and age (most common in teenage and young women). Just get him checked out and if you are still really worried, go to a GI specialist. They are pretty good about finding out what's wrong. Good luck.

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