Liver
The liver is the most important organ in the body. It stops bleeding. It protects against harmful toxins from the body. The liver stores energy when it is needed. It performs a great deal of functions. Hepatitis or hepatitis is one of the most common liver diseases.
Hepatitis C virus
Is a viral viral disease caused by a virus spread through food and drink or blood contaminated with the virus, which affects the human from the outside, causing damage in liver cells, and this damage is reflected on the liver where it leads to acute inflammation or chronic inflammation, and in advanced stages can lead to cirrhosis Liver.
Types of disease
- Virus A: A virus that spreads through contaminated food and water, or by contact with an infected person of a healthy person. This is the most widespread type of epidemic, affecting large numbers of people due to lack of hygiene and lack of health care in the area of spread of the disease, And is widely spread in the third world because of the lack of awareness of the importance of caution and caution of the causes of transmission of the disease, and is a virus is benign because 99% of those who are cured automatically by the antibodies produced by the body to The virus resisted, thus expels the disease out of the body.
- Virus B: Which is the most dangerous virus, moving only from blood to blood, and was discovered recently in the seventies of the last century, and the most transmission methods are blood transfusion, such as AIDS completely, or non-sterilization tools that transmit blood contaminated with the virus as happens in salons, In low-health settings, or using limited medical injections for large numbers of people to be vaccinated. It should be noted that 90% of HIV-positive people recover spontaneously and 10% of HIV-positive people need treatment.
- Virus C: A virus that travels from blood to blood. It was discovered in the 1990s, which is the opposite of the B virus, where 80% of the patients recover without treatment and 20% of the patients need treatment.
- Virus D: Delta and Lysib virus are only called people with B virus.
Symptoms of the disease
Symptoms vary depending on the type of virus that affects the patient, but the symptoms in general are:
Symptoms of infection with “A”
- The yellowing of the body shows this clearly in the eye and face.
- Redness of urine and change of stool color to whiteness.
- Loss of appetite and general weakness in the body.
- Feeling pain in the joints and muscles.
- Light heat with nausea and intermittent vomiting.
Symptoms of infection with B and C virus
- Yellowing, tiredness and general weakness in the body.
- Weight loss due to anorexia.
- Nausea, dizziness and persistent vomiting.
- Fainting cases especially in advanced cases.
the cure
- People with A viral infection are automatically cured by the body’s resistance to the virus.
- The basic step in the treatment of viral liver diseases is hygiene, attention to sources of water, food and public health.
- Take the vaccines for each virus on time and not neglect any of them.