Hepatitis A

Hepatitis A is not usually serious. Most people get better within a couple of months.

A hepatitis A vaccine is available on the NHS if you’re at increased risk.


A hepatitis A vaccine is available on the NHS if you’re at increased risk.

Symptoms

Some people with hepatitis A, particularly young children, won’t have any symptoms.

If you do develop symptoms, they tend to occur around 4 weeks after exposure to the hepatitis A virus.

Symptoms of hepatitis A include:

feeling tired and generally unwell joint and muscle pain a high temperature (fever) loss of appetite feeling or being sick pain in the upper-right part of your tummy a headache, sore throat and cough constipation or diarrhoea a raised, itchy rash (hives) yellowing of the skin and eyes (jaundice) dark pee pale poo itchy skin the upper-right part of your tummy becoming swollen and tender