Prevention and Treatment of Hepatitis.

It has been explained in the previous post - the causes of hepatitis, the types, the symptoms as well as the effects on the body. For more on these, click here!

PREVENTION OF HEPATITIS.
Viral hepatitis is caused by viruses that infect the liver. Each of these viruses cause a different type of disease, but there are some basic strategies that you can follow to protect yourself from most viral hepatitis infections. While we can't protect ourselves from everything, many types of hepatitis are preventable. Vaccines are very effective for preventing infection from hepatitis A and hepatitis B. Hepatitis B vaccine is a safe and effective way to protect yourself against hepatitis B infection. Since hepatitis B infection can lead to liver failure and liver cancer, protecting yourself from infection is important.

Hepatitis A and hepatitis E spread from person to person along the fecal-oral route. This means that feces contaminated with HAV or HEV from an infected person are somehow ingested by another person. This sounds gross and bizarre, but it happens in surprising ways.

The best way to prevent hepatitis C infection is to avoid contact with the blood of infected people. It's intuitive to think that a mosquito can spread blood-borne viruses, like hepatitis, when they bite someone infected and then move on to someone else. However, this doesn't happen because the biology of how they bite prevents it. Fortunately for everyone, viral hepatitis isn't spread from mosquitoes.

TREATMENT OF HEPATITIS.
There is no single medicine for treatment of hepatitis. Treatment is specific to its cause, which means that your physician will choose the best therapy for you based on your diagnosis. In the case of viral hepatitis, some viruses do respond to antiviral treatment. In certain acute cases, no drug is needed. However, getting the proper treatment is important because the faster your hepatitis is under control, the better your liver will be.

These are some of the most common forms of treatment for hepatitis.
* Rest: Some types of hepatitis, such as acute viral forms like hepatitis A and sometimes hepatitis B are self-limited diseases which means that your body's immune system will eventually be able to destroy the viruses that caused the disease. Medicine is rarely necessary to treat self-limited types of hepatitis, except for supportive therapies like controlling nausea or aches and pains. However, many people rest and give their bodies the necessary time to fight the illness. Self-limited diseases usually will not progress to chronic problems, so after a few weeks, you will feel better and be able to go back to normal activities.
* Antiviral Drugs: Doctors often combine different antiviral drugs to better combat the virus.
* Liver Transplantation: Sometimes hepatitis has developed into such a serious disease that a liver transplant is the only treatment left. This is a complex surgical procedure that involves replacing a failing liver with a donor liver. But because there are many risks involved, it is a treatment of last resort.

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Hepatitis

Hepatitis is caused by several viruses, the most common of which are named hepatitis A, B, and C. The 3 hepatitis viruses caused most liver damage. However, hepatitis can also be caused by alcohol and some other toxins and infections, as well as from our own auto-immune process - in which the body attacks itself. Other types of hepatitis are hepatitis D, E and X.

When an individual first develop hepatitis, it is called acute hepatitis. Hepatitis can also become a long-term disease known as chronic hepatitis. It gradually destroys the liver. Chronic hepatitis also appears to increase the risk of liver cancer.

The liver performs a wide range of functions, including:
* Detoxification (filters harmful substances form the blood, such as alcohol)
* Storage of vitamins A, D, K and B12 (also stores minerals)
* Syntheses of protein (makes certain amino acids)
* Production of biochemicals needed for digestion, such as bile
* Maintenance of proper levels of glucose in the blood
* Production of body's cholesterol (cholesterol is vital for our health)
* Storage of glycogen after conversion from glucose to glycogen
* Decomposition of red blood cells
* Syntheses of plasma protein
* Production of hormones
* Production of urea (the main substance of urine)

SYMPTOMS OF HEPATITIS
Though some people with the disease may not have any of these problems, but there are four common symptoms frequently seen with hepatitis.
* Jaundice
* Loss of Appetite
* Muscle and Joint Aches
* Fatigue

Hepatitis is categorized into 'acute' and 'chronic' phases.The initial phase of hepatitis is called the acute phase. The symptoms include: Diarrhea, Fatigue, Loss of appetite, Mild fever, Muscle or joint aches, Nausea, Slight abdominal pain, Vomiting and Weight loss.

As the patient gets worse, these symptoms may follow: Circulation problems, Dark urine, Dizziness, Drowsiness, Enlarged spleen, Headache, Hives, Itchy skin, Light colored feces (the feces may contain pus), Yellow skin, tongue and whites of eyes.

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Discover yourself.

If you like to know how you can discover yourself, diligently read this post. If you think you are your real self and wish to confirm how true is it, this post is also for you to read. When you are yourself, everyone will respect you more and treat you kindly. Best of all, you will always feel good about yourself and this will reflect out onto others, making them feel even more certain about your sense of self.

If you want to discover yourself you should be able to believe and rely on yourself. If you don't have a solid foundational sense of yourself, you will be inclined to listen to what others have to say all the time and to be swayed by their insistence on what is wrong, right, and appropriate. When the self sense of others envelops your own self sense, you're not likely to find yourself.

It's a fact that we are caught in a trap of family and social restrictions. It is often the case that we are not doing what we really want to do, but are doing something because we think we should want to do it. We have absorbed some values that are not consistent with our true nature. We are living according to those (false) values and are creating internal conflict within ourselves. This leads to stress, discomfort and unhappiness.

Allow your soul to give your body what it needs for you to discover yourself. Ask yourself the question, "If I could be anything in this world, and be guaranteed success, what would I be?" or "If I had to choose some words to describe the kind of person I'd love to be, what would those words be?" Adventurous? Loving? Open? Honest? Hilarious? Optimistic? Realistic? Motivated? Resilient? Don't be afraid to choose words that are considered negative because that proves you're a whole, not a lopsided and you will find yourself soon.

More so, are you advised or compelled to belief in anything? Not all beliefs can work with your true nature. Sometimes a belief will set restrictions that will restrain you from discovering your real nature and live a fulfilled life. As for me, I want a fulfilled. When I grow older, I should neither regret nor feel sorry... I imagine the kind of mental agony I will experience when I grow older, when my damaged and dead cells are not able to be repaired and be replaced as it is able now, when my muscles, tendons, bones, etc. are less active and I need more rest, and my dreams are never fulfilled.

If there's something you want, no matter how hopeless it seems, go for it. So years from now when you look back, you'll never regret and wish you gave it one more shot. Doing what you love, with the people you love, improves your mood, your health and your whole life. So, find your life path.

If you hold any hidden fear or negative feelings about your self, you will find it hard to discover yourself.

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