Hepatitis symptoms

Hepatitis A, hepatitis B and hepatitis C are all contagious infections that affect the liver. They each are caused by a different virus. Hepatitis B and C are more serious than hepatitis A. But each can inflame the liver.

Some people never get hepatitis symptoms. For those who do, the symptoms may happen weeks after exposure to one of the hepatitis viruses.

Hepatitis symptoms can include:

• Fatigue.
• Upset stomach and vomiting.
• Pain or discomfort in the stomach area, especially in the area of the liver on the right side beneath the lower ribs.
• Loss of appetite.
• Fever.
• Dark urine.
• Stool that's the color of clay.
• Muscle or joint pain.
• Itching.
• Yellowing of your skin and the whites of your eyes, also called jaundice. Yellowing may be harder to notice on brown or Black skin.