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What is Hepatitis?
Hepatitis is a liver disease caused by virus. It is of many types but types A, B and C are more common having different effects on the human body. The treatment for each type is also different. All types are infectious and can travel from one person to another.
Liver is “chemical factory” of the body. If it does not function correctly, many things in the… read more
Prevention of Hepatitis
Preventive measures for all types of hepatitis are nearly the same. Some important measures are:
- Never forget to wash your hands before taking meals.
- Always wash your hands with soap after using the toilet whether you are going for meals or not.
- Avoid eating from unhygienic places.
- Do not use personal care items of infected person like tooth brush, shaving blade, towel
Immediately after infection (initially) there might be mild or no abnormal symptoms at all. Unlike Hepatitis A, the body usually does not become yellow. If the symptoms do appear, they might include:
- General weakness without any apparent cause
- Easy fatigue. Soreness of muscles as if overworked.
- Abdominal pain without any apparent cause
- Undue heat and itching of skin
- Dark yellow urine of high specific
Modern medical system does not consider Hepatitis B curable but they have the treatment for hepatitis C, which is very expensive though. The medicines used to treat hepatitis C are said to have significant side effects as well. The success rate is also not very appreciable. While treating hepatitis, the entire focus of modern science is on killing the virus, not on stopping its production and multiplication, which frequently leads… read more
Hepatitis C is caused by Hepatitis C virus (HCV) and Hepatitis B is a liver disease caused by Hepatitis B virus (HBV). As compared to Hepatitis C, Hepatitis B is less commonly found. Hepatitis C, B and A are all contagious. As soon as the virus infects a person, short-term symptoms that appear are usually not very alarming. As a result it does not even occur to many persons that… read more
It is not always be possible to prevent the infection even after taking preventive measures, yet one should not tend to ignore them. Preventive measures are nearly the same for all types of hepatitis. Common points are:
- Always wash your hands with soap before taking meals. Hands must be washed with soap after using the toilet even you are not going for meals.
- Eating from unhygienic places