A Threathening Life Long Disease That Affect Body System Due To Negligence

Hepatitis C is an inflammation of the liver caused by the hepatitis C virus. The virus can cause both acute and chronic hepatitis, ranging in severity from a mild illness to a serious, lifelong illness including liver cirrhosis and cancer.An infection caused by a virus that attacks the liver and leads to inflammation.

The virus is spread by contact with contaminated blood; for example, from sharing needles or from 

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Most people have no symptoms. Those who do develop symptoms may have fatigue, nausea, loss of appetite and yellowing of the eyes and skin. Hepatitis C is treated with antiviral medication. In some people, newer medicines can eradicate the virus.

Chronic Hepatitis C can cause liver inflammation and scarring that can lead to moderate liver damage (fibrosis) and severe liver damage (cirrhosis). 

People with cirrhosis are at high risk for liver failure, liver cancer and even death. Liver damage often happens slowly, over 20 to 30 years.

Treatment is recommended for all people, including non-pregnant women, with acute or chronic hepatitis C (including children aged ≥3 years and adolescents). 

Current treatments usually involve just 8–12 weeks of oral therapy (pills) and cure over 90% with few side effects.

Some people have yellowing of the skin (jaundice). Chronic infection often causes no symptoms. But fatigue, depression and other problems can occur. 

Persons who have long-term (chronic) infection often have no symptoms until their liver becomes scarred (cirrhosis).

The most important thing to remember is that hepatitis B is a chronic medical condition (such as diabetes and high blood pressure) that can be successfully managed if you take good care of your health and your liver.

Toxic hepatitis is an inflammation of your liver in reaction to certain substances to which you're exposed. Toxic hepatitis can be caused by alcohol, chemicals, drugs or nutritional supplements.

Symptoms

Mild forms of toxic hepatitis may not cause any symptoms and may be detected only by blood tests. When signs and symptoms of toxic hepatitis occur, they may include:

• Yellowing of the skin and whites of the eyes (jaundice)
• Itching
• Abdominal pain in the upper right portion of the abdomen
• Fatigue
• Loss of appetite
• Nausea and vomiting
• Rash
• Fever
• Weight loss
• Dark or tea-colored urine

In some cases, toxic hepatitis develops within hours or days of exposure to a toxin. In other cases, it may take months of regular use before signs and symptoms appear.

The symptoms of toxic hepatitis often go away when exposure to the toxin stops. But toxic hepatitis can permanently damage your liver, leading to irreversible scarring of liver tissue (cirrhosis) and in some cases to liver failure, which can be life-threatening.

Hepatitis can be caused by:

• Immune cells in the body attacking the liver.
• Infections from viruses (such as hepatitis A, hepatitis B, or hepatitis C), bacteria, or parasites.
• Liver damage from alcohol or poison.
• Medicines, such as an overdose of acetaminophen.
• Fatty liver.

Treatable by a medical professional

Spreads in various way

Requires a medical diagnosis

Lab tests or imaging always required

Chronic: can last for years or be lifelong

HOW IT SPREADS

By blood products (unclean needles or unscreened blood).

By mother to baby by pregnancy, labor, or nursing.