Every year on 28 July we celebrate world hepatitis day, to bring in global awareness on hepatitis. Hepatitis is marked as the world’s eighth authorized worldwide public health movement by World Health Organization.
Every year, the world hepatitis day comes up with a goal to make the world free of hepatitis one day, it brings the whole world under a single theme that is to completely eradicate hepatitis.
This year also on 28 July 2018 we come up with the theme of world hepatitis day which is “eliminate Hepatitis”, and it will be very soon achieved because of the tremendous efforts made by the government to spread awareness of it and steps to eradicate it.
Hepatitis is a collection of infectious diseases identified as Hepatitis A, B, C, D and E. Hepatitis is a deadly disease which affects millions of people around the world every year. Due to the lack of global attention hepatitis has become a major killer.
Hepatitis B and C are major viral diseases and are even root cause of liver cancer affecting millions of people globally and even causing millions of deaths every year. They are chronic infections and do not show symptoms for a very long period, but timely testing and treatment of this disease can save lives. Hepatitis A and E are short-term virus infections and last for about a week or two.
Out of 10 people who are living with viral hepatitis, 8 are living with this viral without knowing that they have hepatitis. Thus, the Moto to celebrate world hepatitis day is to make people aware and to provide them with proper knowledge, awareness and treatment of this disease so that may lives can be saved.
The hepatitis disease leads to malfunctioning and extensive scarring of the liver.
Hepatitis B and C show symptoms when the damage starts affecting the liver, initially it shows no symptoms.
The symptoms are as follows:
Hepatitis is diagnosed by the physical examination which is done by the doctor like seeing for your liver enlargement or pain in the abdomen, or yellowness of the skin. Your doctor will also take your blood samples for testing liver functions, having other blood tests to detect the source of the problem. You will also have an abdominal ultrasound and a liver biopsy done for a more accurate report of the disease.
Tips to Prevent Hepatitis
To prevent hepatitis you can take the following precautions because precautions are always better than cure.