Hepatitis A Prevention, Treatment

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, handkerchief etc.
• Use boiled water as far as possible.
• No sexual contact with infected person.
• Never use used syringe.
• Do not receive dental treatment from unclean dentists. Such dentists are said to be the main source of spreading hepatitis.
• Do not receive blood from habitual donors.
• Do not donate blood if you are infected.
• Think of the risk involved if you are considering body piercing like nose and ears etc.

Treatment of Hepatitis A

“Hepatitis A” yields much quicker than all other types and can be easily treated by any medical system. The affected person is generally advised to have complete bed rest and take plenty of liquids. “Hepatitis” A is not considered as dangerous as other types. The apparent symptoms usually clear off in about a week or so but a confirmatory test would be necessary to check whether level of bilirubin has dropped to within permissible limits or not. If it has not or is taking too ong to drop, you might like to consider homeopathic treatment. In such condition, use of lot of liquids might no longer be fruitful. Proper medical treatment would be necessary otherwise the liver function might get seriously disturbed. It is said that if a person has had “Hepatitis A” once, he/she cannot get it again. It is also said that there is no long-term infection.