Know Your Liver disease or liver inflammation or hepatitis

Hepatitis term used for all types of inflammation of the liver. The causes can be various kinds, ranging from viruses to drugs, including traditional medicine.  
Virus hepatitis was also there are several types, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, C, D, E, F and G. Manifestation of disease caused by viral hepatitis can be acute (hepatitis A) can also chronic hepatitis (hepatitis B, C) and those that later become cancer liver (hepatitis B and C). 

• Hepatitis A   

Often hepatitis A infection in children does not cause symptoms, whereas in adults causes flu-like symptoms, fatigue, fever, diarrhea, nausea, abdominal pain, yellow eyes and loss of appetite.
The symptoms disappeared completely after 6-12 weeks. People who were infected with hepatitis A if recovered will be immune to the disease. In contrast to hepatitis B and C, hepatitis A infection does not progress to chronic hepatitis.
The incubation period of 30 days. Transmission through contaminated food or water stool of patients, such as eating fruits, vegetables are not cooked or eating undercooked shellfish. Drink with ice cubes that the process is contaminated. 
There is now a hepatitis A vaccine, providing immunity for 4 weeks after the first injection, the length required for immunity vaccine injections several times. Narcotic addicts and anal sex, including homosexual is a high risk of contracting hepatitis A.

• Hepatitis B

Symptoms similar to hepatitis A, flu-like, ie loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, fatigue, yellow eyes and vomiting, and fever. Transmission can be through a needle or contaminated knife, blood transfusions and human bites.
Treatment with interferon alfa-2b and lamivudine, as well as immunoglobulins containing antibodies against hepatitis-B are given 14 days after exposure.
Hepatitis B vaccine is safe and effective has been available since a few years ago. Which is the risk of contracting hepatitis B is a drug addict, people who have multiple sexual partners.

• Hepatitis C 

Hepatitis C is an infectious disease that affects the liver, caused by the hepatitis C virus (HCV). The infection is often asymptomatic, but once established, chronic infection can progress to liver scarring (fibrosis), and advanced scarring (cirrhosis) which is generally seen after many years. 
Worldwide is estimated there are about 130-170 million people affected by hepatitis C, and about 70-80 percent become chronically infected. When the infection has started experiencing the effects of chronic persistent inflammation caused by immune reactions against the virus.
Known to about 75 percent of people infected with hepatitis C have no symptoms when first diagnosed, and the remaining 25 percent complained of fatigue, loss of appetite, muscle aches or fever. While the condition of the skin and yellowing of the eyes that rarely occur in the early stages of infection.
Usually the initial diagnosis of hepatitis C is found through blood tests that showed an increase in liver enzyme levels, signs of liver damage which became the first hint the possibility of infection.

• Hepatitis D

Hepatitis D Virus (HDV) or delta virus is a virus that is unique, which is not complete and for replication requires the presence of hepatitis B virus. Transmission through sexual contact, needles and blood transfusions. Symptoms of hepatitis D varies, it can appear as mild symptoms (co-infection) or a very progressive.

• Hepatitis E

Symptoms similar to hepatitis A, stiff fever, lethargy, loss of appetite and abdominal pain. Disease that will heal itself (self-limited), except in the event of pregnancy, particularly the third trimester, can be deadly. Transmission through feces-contaminated water.

• Hepatitis F

There are only few cases reported. Currently, experts do not agree with hepatitis F hepatitis is a separate disease.

• Hepatitis G

Symptoms similar to hepatitis C, often in conjunction with hepatitis B and / or C. No cause of fulminant hepatitis or chronic hepatitis.

Transmission through blood transfusion needle.