acute hepatitis

Following the information that cases of acute hepatitis of unknown origin in children have been recorded in some countries around the world, parents were recommended to let their children undergo liver enzyme tests to find the mysterious virus. However, health experts warn that people who impatiently wanted their children to undergo iver enzyme tests while the tests can only detect liver damage and function but not identify the disease.

Today, the Ministry of Health sent an official dispatch to institutes of Hygiene and Epidemiology, institutes of Pasteur, and departments of health in provinces and cities nationwide, especially border crossings on the surveillance of acute hepatitis cases of unknown cause in children.

The Ministry of Health today requested departments of health in provinces and cities to monitor acute hepatitis cases of unknown cause and promptly implement preventive measures to minimize the number of cases and deaths.

According to Dr. Nguyen Nguyen Huyen, Head of Medical Examination Department at Kim Chung Campus in the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases, through information from the World Health Organization (WHO) and a number of scientific studies which have not been confirmed yet the exact cause of this mysterious hepatitis, but many scientists doubted that the disease was caused by the Adenovirus.

On the afternoon of May 3, a representative of the Department of Preventive Medicine under the Ministry of Health said that through surveillance, so far, Vietnam has not recorded any cases of acute and severe hepatitis of unknown origin in children.

Recently, several hospitals in Ho Chi Minh City have recorded many cases of people being hospitalized due to the use of herbal medicines of unknown origin, even severe poisoning. Doctors recommended that patients do not arbitrarily buy and use traditional medicines without a doctor’s prescription, otherwise, it will seriously affect their health.