WORLD HEPATITIS DAY 2023
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Friday, 28 Jul 2023 07:45 WIB
1. Myths about Hepatitis, Eyes Always Turn Yellow Automatically? 2. Hepatitis myths
Illustration. There are many myths that are spread around hepatitis. (iStockphoto/1001Love)
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Day Hepatitis The world is commemorated every July 28. Unfortunately, there are still many myths about hepatitis.
Today, July 28, is celebrated as World Hepatitis Day. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), World Hepatitis Day is an opportunity to scale up response efforts to hepatitis at the national and international levels.
This year, the commemoration takes the theme “One life, one liver“. Hepatitis can take both at once.
The campaign that was echoed reminded of the importance of maintaining a healthy heart. The reason is, the liver performs more than 500 vital functions that keep life going.
Awareness of liver health is as important as awareness of correct information about hepatitis. The following is a series of hepatitis myths that should be eliminated.
1. All types of hepatitis are equally dangerous
In fact, there are types of hepatitis in nature self limiting. That is, it can heal by itself. However, some can cause liver cancer or permanent liver damage.
“Hepatitis A often makes people feel sick for a short time, but very rarely has serious complications or long-term illness,” explained Shelley Facente, associate researcher in the Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, as reported. Medical News Today.
While hepatitis B can be very serious and lead to chronic infection although rare. Then hepatitis C often does not cause early symptoms, but mostly leads to liver cancer, cirrhosis, and death if left untreated.
2. Cases of hepatitis C are rare
Illustration. There are many myths that are spread around hepatitis. (iStock/Sinenkiy)
Who says it? According to WHO, there are 325 million people suffering from hepatitis B, C or both. In 2016, WHO noted that there were around 399 thousand deaths from hepatitis C globally.
Hepatitis B and C are both the most common causes of cirrhosis and liver cancer. Both are also the biggest cause of death caused by viral hepatitis.
3. Hepatitis A is a hereditary disease
People infected with hepatitis A are not because of a family history of the same disease. Inheritance of the disease from parents is even more susceptible to cases of hepatitis B.
As reported India Times, in the case of hepatitis B, the mother can transmit the virus to the child during the delivery process. However, this can be prevented by identifying the hepatitis B status of the mother and vaccinating the newborn within 12 hours.
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