Let’s Identify the 5 Types of Hepatitis!

As reported healthmeup, hepatitis is a liver disease caused by the inflammation of toxins, certain medications, and alcohol consumption, to bacterial or viral infection.

But unfortunately, to date understanding of this disease is still compact. Therefore, identify the types of hepatitis following.

Hepatitis A (HAV)
This type of hepatitis is usually spread through direct contact with patients or eating food contaminated with the hepatitis A virus called HAV. Almost everyone who gets hepatitis A has a full recovery.

Hepatitis B (HBV)
Hepatitis B is transmitted through blood, semen, and other body fluids. This disease can also be transmitted from an infected mother to her baby. Hepatitis B can also become a risk to workers who handle it because they can be spread through needles used to treat patients with hepatitis B.

Hepatitis C (HCV)
Most of these diseases are transmitted through blood. This can occur through blood transfusion infected with hepatitis C, injection of contaminated, to the alternately use of needles among drug users. In addition, there is no vaccine for hepatitis C. In fact the disease can lead to liver cancer.

Hepatitis D (HDV)
Hepatitis D can be regarded as a continuation of the disease hepatitis B. The combination of hepatitis B and hepatitis D may cause more severe illness.

Hepatitis E (HEV)
Just as hepatitis A, hepatitis E is transmitted through ingestion of contaminated water or food of the disease. In fact this disease is a common disease that occurs in developing countries with poor sanitation.

Of the various types of hepatitis, the most serious hepatitis is hepatitis B and hepatitis C. In addition, most people who are infected with both types of the disease are not aware of it. In addition it has so far not found a vaccine to treat hepatitis C.