Symptoms For Hepatitis

Hepatitis is the inflammation of liver and it is caused due to viral infection, side effect of long term medication, and due to adverse effect of toxic agents. There are two types of hepatitis like viral and non- viral type of hepatitis.

Viral hepatitis is a short term disease and comes with comparatively severe outbursts of symptoms. On the other hand, chronic hepatitis is non-viral type which displays mild outburst of symptoms; however, sustains for a long-term basis in the health system of the affected person.

Acute phase of hepatitis displays often a few but severe symptoms which in some way resembles flu-symptoms like mild fever, joint pains, nausea, loss of appetite, vomiting abdominal pain or discomfort, mild to severe diarrhea, and meaningless fatigue etc.

Although acute hepatitis infection needs immediate medical intervention but this physical condition is not fatal in general. However, due to negligence, indulgence of some unhealthy habits, and gross unhygienic living condition, the infection of hepatitis may prove fatal in its ultimate effect.

In the advanced stage of hepatitis, some other symptoms may be observed within the affected patients like, yellowish skin which denotes presence of jaundice, dark colored urine, light colored stool containing pus, itching in body as well as in anal space, rash of hives, and headache followed by dizziness. In case of alcoholic hepatitis, the problem of enlarged spleen is an obvious symptom of advanced stage of hepatitis.

The symptoms, which comes after the acute stage may display the root cause behind the infection. For example, if the patient suffers from headache, drowsiness, lightheadedness in the advances stage of symptoms, it can be safely anticipated that the infection of hepatitis is of drug –induced type. In case of drug or toxin induced hepatitis problem, blood circulation related problem also confirms the root cause of this infection.