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Hepatitis C
Nikkita Mae C. Ampongan| Ms. Aslam| R.H.
What is Hepatitis?
• Hepatitis – is the inflammation/swelling of
the liver.
• Inflammation – is when our liver is
getting sore and reddish that may
result for our body tissues to be injured
or get infected. Also inflammation can
cause for our body to not work properly.
What is hepatitis c?
• Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is one of the
many viruses that can cause
inflammation of the liver.
• Hepatitis C is generally termed as the
inflammation of liver. The inflammation
can be caused by an infection.
Hepatitis can also be caused by over
using of alcohol, medicines, chemicals,
poisons, and other toxics or by other
disease.
• Inflammation of the liver caused by
infection with Hepatitis C virus or HCV
is referred to as hepatitis C.
Hepatitis history
It is difficult to limit the origin of HCV in
such a short period of human history for some
reasons that the virus is found in remote areas
all over the world. Additionally the virus is
spread through blood to blood contact, making
it difficult to find the routes of the virus. In the
year 1960’s-1970’s Scientists in that year
made some tests for identifying hepatitis A
(1963), and hepatitis B (1973) but based from
the tests they had been taken many of the
blood samples were tested negative for
hepatitis A and hepatitis B. They believed that
about 90%-95% of cases previously classified
as non-A non-B (NA/NB) were actually hepatitis
C. In the 1980’s Daniel W. Bradley and Chiron
Michael Houghton lead the investigation to
identify the virus. Blood banks began
screening blood donors for hepatitis C in 1990,
etiology
Hepatitis C is usually spread through contact with blood
products. People who use intravenous (IV) drugs can get
hepatitis C when they share needles with someone who has the
virus. Also not proper sterilization of needles used can also
cause hepatitis. Until recently some health departments, clinics,
hospitals and doctors forget to dispose their hazardous waste
properly affecting many lives of people by having this kind of
disease. Syringes and needles are soaked in alcohol but this
procedure is proven that it didn’t work. Drug usage, tattoos and
Acupuncture are also known to be some reason for these
disease to spread out. One of the example of these are people
experiment through their curiosity on one point of their lives, not
knowing the consequences but still doing what they wanted.
Sharing contaminated needles may have spread the disease
from one person to another. Other people may have visited
unclean tattoo parlours or acupuncture shops. Last common
cause of HCV is sexually transmitted disease. Some people may
be diagnose with HCV virus because they lack knowledge about
having affairs with somebody that they don’t know if they are
sick or not. Although sexual transmission as a cause of hepatitis
Symptoms
When hepatitis C gets in the body of a
person it is referred as an acute phase. In
the acute phase people might experience
getting tired easily, and yellowing of the
eyes and skin. Other symptoms such as
headache, fever, and abdominal pain
may also occur. However, many people
experience no symptoms during this
acute phase of infection. When
symptoms are present they can range
from mild to severe. The most common
early symptoms are mild fever,
headache, muscle aches, fatigue, loss of
preventions
Some main things on how to prevent HCV: