Basic introduction to Hepatitis

What is hepatitis?

Hepatitis is composed of two words one is hepa and other is Titus so hepa word relates to liver and Titus meaning is inflammation so collectively this disease is basically inflammation of the liver which can be due to many of the reasons like more alcohol intake or invading of virus in body etc.

What are the types of hepatitis?
Hepatitis have several types and if we count the total types of hepatitis and these are 7 but most common type of hepatitis are of three types and they are hepatitis A hepatitis B and hepatitis C and all type of hepatitis have their own causes.

Some hepatitis can caused by poor hygiene and other type of hepatitis can be caused by virus or due to infected syringe of a person who already have a characters and it can also transmit through one person to another person but not every type of hepatitis spread from person to person.

Diagnosis and treatment of hepatitis
As it is a disease of liver so we have to check the proper functioning of liver and for this there is a test recommended which is liver functioning test and normally we call it LFT so this test can clearly tells you that you have hepatitis or not.

If we talk about treatment of hepatitis then there are some type of hepatitis that cannot be cure able completely but there are some type of hepatitis that can be cured fully even if you know about it at later stage.

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Read more about hepatitis via the articles below.

https://www.healthline.com/health/hepatitis

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/145869

https://www.cdc.gov/hepatitis/abc/index.htm

https://www.who.int/health-topics/hepatitis#tab=tab_1