Hepatitis is the inflammation of the liver. Several different viruses cause viral hepatitis. They are named the hepatitis A, B, C, D, and E virus. All of these viruses can cause acute or short term, viral hepatitis. The hepatitis B, C, and E can cause chronic hepatitis in which the infection is prolonged, sometimes lifelong.
Symptoms produce an initial acute phase, often with few if any symptoms. If there are symptoms they tend to mimic ‘flu-like’ symptoms such as mild fever, myalgia, nausea, vomiting, and loss of appetite, diarrhea, and fatigue. As the condition worsens, the person also may experience jaundice, dark urine, enlarged spleen, headache, dizziness, and etc.
Viral hepatitis can be prevented through various means like improving social condition such as safe excreta disposal, adopting sanitary measures, and personal hygiene, using properly sterilized syringe and needles, blood check before transfusion, wash hand well after using bathroom and before eating food, eating fresh food and drinking clean boil boiled water. Beside this immunization with inactivated virus vaccine.
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