The Causes and Types of Hepatitis
The word hepatitis is originally come from two Greek words; one is ‘Hepat’ which means liver and another is ‘itis’ which means inflammation. In the scientific terms Hepatitis is an inflammation of the liver characterized by the presence of inflammatory cells in the tissue of the organ. Hepatitis can be healed by itself and sometimes it may be harmful. There may be some symptoms regarding hepatitis and may be not. Most of the cases it appears with jaundice and poor appetite. Hepatitis can be acute or chronic. Acute hepatitis does not last for more than six months. But the chronic one persists longer.
The hepatitis that people are affected from worldwide is mainly caused by the hepatitis virus. But there are some external toxins which also causes hepatitis. Most notable of them are alcohol, some types of medications, some industrial solvent, and other infections. Hepatitis is communicable. The person who is suffering from Hepatitis can be affected by several disorders like having viral or bacterial infection in the liver, having liver injury due to the use of any toxin, having a trauma to the abdomen in the area of the liver etc.
There are mainly three kinds of Hepatitis virus. They are Hepatitis A, Hepatitis B, and Hepatitis C. Apart from them viruses like hepatitis D and E. Children are mainly suffered from hepatitis A. This kind of virus lives in the stools or poop p of infected individuals. Infected stools can be present in small amounts in food and on objects. Hepatitis A spreads when anyone ingests anything that is contaminated with HAV infected stool. Hepatitis A can be sometime prolonged for 6 months and more but it typically only causes short-lived illnesses and it doe’s not cause chronic disease. It is practically unheard for people to become chronic carriers of hepatitis A.
It takes 2 to 6 weeks for a person to become infected after being affected by hepatitis A, for hepatitis B it takes 4 to 20 weeks, and for hepatitis C it takes 2 to 26 weeks. Hepatitis B is also not a chronic disease as most of the people that are affected from hepatitis B recover from their illness completely within 6 months. But unlike hepatitis A and B, hepatitis C does not recover completely and is more likely to continue to have a long time infection. Some people with hepatitis C may also become lifelong carriers of these viruses and can spread them to other people.
