GASTRO-INTESTINAL TRACT
Hepatitis
Hepatitis is inflammation of the liver. Inflammation is swelling that happens when tissues of the body are injured or infected. It can damage your liver. This swelling and damage can affect how well your liver functions.
Hepatitis can be an acute (short-term) infection or a chronic (long-term) infection. Some types of hepatitis cause only acute infections. Other types can cause both acute and chronic infections.
Causes
There are different types of hepatitis, with different causes:
Viral hepatitis is the most common type. It is caused by one of several viruses -- hepatitis viruses A, B, C, D, and E.
Alcoholic hepatitis is caused by heavy alcohol use
Toxic hepatitis can be caused by certain poisons, chemicals, medicines, or supplements
Autoimmune hepatitis is a chronic type in which your body's immune system attacks your liver. The cause is not known, but genetics and your environment may play a role.
Who is at risk for hepatitis?
The risks are different for the different types of hepatitis. For example, with most of the viral types, your risk is higher if you have unprotected sex. People who drink a lot over long periods of time are at risk for alcoholic hepatitis.
Symptoms
Some people with hepatitis do not have symptoms and do not know they are infected. If you do have symptoms, they may include:
Fever
Fatigue
Loss of appetite
Nausea and/or vomiting
Abdominal pain
Dark urine
Clay-colored bowel movements
Joint pain
Jaundice, yellowing of your skin and eyes
If you have an acute infection, your symptoms can start anywhere between 2 weeks to 6 months after you got infected. If you have a chronic infection, you may not have symptoms until many years later.
Treatments
Medical management is the Basic treatment for any type of hepatitis. Whether hepatitis A, B, C, D or E it has huge scope in homeopathy. Proper acute medicine and constitutional treatment for each patient helps in curing this condition whether it is in acute or chronic state of disease respectively. Homeopathy helps in strengthening the immunity and liver health of the patient in long run. It helps in reducing the symptoms and prevents further progress of the disease.
Few homoeopathic medicines which help in such cases are Cardus marianus, chelidonium majus, phosphorus etc.
Factors that cause hepatitis of various kinds should be avoided in the first place to avoid this disease like outside contaminated food and water, unsafe sex etc.
