Liver
The liver is responsible for storing large amounts of blood until it is needed in some cases that cause loss of quantities. It also converts sugars into fatty substances and vice versa. It regulates the amount of sugar in the blood so as not to rise or fall below the permissible rate, Any problem with the liver can cause many problems.
The liver may become infected with inflammation caused by some types of viruses, and divided into several types of inflammation by type of virus causing it:
- Type A hepatitis, the person is infected by the virus (HAV).
- Hepatitis B, the person is infected by the virus (HBV).
- Type C hepatitis, the person is infected because of the virus (HCV).
- Type D hepatitis, the person is infected because of the virus (HDV).
- Hepatitis E type, the person is infected by the virus (HEV).
- Hepatitis G type, the person is infected by the virus (HGV).
- Inflammation is caused by diseases in the immune system, inflammation caused by poisoning of drugs or chemicals.
C virus
C virus is a virus that affects the liver cells causing hepatitis C, many people who develop hepatitis C do not feel any symptoms, and recover completely without the need for any medical attention, and others become acute inflammation with fatigue and loss of appetite, and turn the color of the skin and eyes to (A condition called jaundice). If the body is unable to fight the virus, the patient may develop chronic hepatitis, which can lead to liver cirrhosis, liver failure or even liver cancer later In life, chronic hepatitis C is also A silent disease, where no symptoms often appear until the liver is severely damaged.
Statistics on C virus
Hepatitis C is one of the most infectious diseases affecting millions of the world’s population, especially in developing and poor countries. Nearly three percent of the population on the planet is infected with C virus, up to about one hundred and seventy million people. Each year because of the spread of the disease. Although the efforts of countries through awareness and warnings of this disease under the auspices of the World Health Organization has begun to bear fruit and the infection rate is less, but there are still more than a quarter of a million people who die every year because of diseases related to the virus C .
C virus is transmitted mainly through exposure to contaminated blood and the disease, and all the wrong practices of non-sterilization and blood transfusion without the necessary analysis and associated lead to infection with the virus, and it is enough to know that Egypt is the first country in terms of high infection rate among the population because of campaigns Control of schistosomiasis, which was prevalent in the Egyptian countryside. Control campaigns were carried out using glass syringes that were not properly sterilized. These campaigns caused millions of Egyptians to become infected with viral hepatitis C. These campaigns have stopped completely and the rate of infection has decreased, Wathrah the number of people living around the world, it must always take precautions from the strange blood exposure.
Symptoms of C virus infection
The symptoms of the disease do not appear in all cases. They appear only in 20-25% of the patients. It usually takes 6-7 weeks to appear, but it can take from two to six months for the symptoms to appear, and they vary from one case to another. The most common symptoms that may affect the patient:
- Primary symptoms of acute disease:
- Pain in the upper right side of the abdomen.
- Abdominal distension due to fluid, (ascites).
- Stools of muddy clay.
- Dark urine.
- Fatigue and tiredness.
- High temperature above 38 celsius.
- Itching.
- Jaundice, which is the yellowing of the skin and eyes.
- Anorexia.
- Vomiting and nausea.
- Muscle pain.
- Symptoms that appear on the patient in the chronic stage:
- Feel tired and sick all the time.
- Pain in the joints, muscles and pain.
- Short-term memory problems, concentration and completion of complex mental tasks such as mental computation, – many people describe this as a “brain haze”.
- Mood Swings.
- Depression or anxiety.
- Indigestion or bloating.
- Itchy skin.
- Abdominal pain.
In the early stages the symptoms are not very severe in most cases, and there are many other effects that lead to the development of the disease, including: Fatigue of the liver by eating alcohol, and eating high-fat meat causes fatigue of the liver; working at full capacity to break up those fats And purified.
Method of transmission
Hepatitis C is not transmitted by blood, or by contact, such as hugging, kissing, and sharing food or drink with an infected person. Can spread by:
- Injecting drug use through the exchange of injection equipment.
- Health care facilities due to the reuse or lack of adequate sterilization of medical equipment, especially syringes and needles.
- Blood transfusion and blood products.
- It may be transmitted sexually, and can be transmitted from the infected mother to her child, but these methods are the least likely to occur.
C-virus treatment
Hepatitis C is treated with antiviral drugs aimed at eliminating the virus. The aim of the treatment is to eliminate it after at least 12 weeks after completion of the treatment, despite the drugs for the treatment of hepatitis, available decades ago, which gradually improved with the passing of Time, only have serious side effects, the person must be treated out for 24-72 weeks, include side effects of depression, flu-like symptoms, loss of red blood cells or white healthy, so many people stop treatment on their own.