Hepatitis is a virus borne disease that can transmit from the affected one and can quickly transform into an epidemic proportion. To prevent viral hepatitis maintaining personal cleanliness, avoiding possible viral transmission and most important of all boosting the immune system against such diseases are important. While maintaining a safe distance from the hepatitis prone or vulnerable zone is extremely important, vaccination, other regular immune boosting procedures and healthy lifestyle with extra precaution in respect of sanitation are other important aspects. Before going on to describe as how to prevent viral hepatitis by being more cautious in day to day lifestyle and other medically validated procedures, let us have a brief look at the clinical definition and basic attributes of the disease.
What is viral hepatitis?
In clinical understanding viral hepatitis is the inflammation of the liver caused by viral infection. This inflammation of the liver caused by viral infection can both be acute and chronic. In acute case the viral infection rapidly sets off in causing syndromes and in chronic cases the symptoms gradually develop. Hepatitis, particularly acute ones can be extremely dangerous and life threatening and needs immediate medical intervention. Hepatitis viruses can be classified into A, B, C, D, E and F, though first three are more common than the other three. Poor sanitation and uncleanly living condition which is responsible for many of the viral infections and viral borne diseases, is prime responsible for viral hepatitis as well. While Hepatitis A mainly transmits through fecal-oral contact referring to poor sanitation and unclean living condition as prime accused, Hepatitis B and C transmits mainly through blood contacts and contacts through other body fluids. Let us now have a look at the ways as to prevent viral hepatitis.
Preventive measures
Measures to prevent viral hepatitis can be of mainly 2 types, firstly the one dealing with the infection by boosting immunity and the second one dealing with lifestyle measures and day to day precautions. Let us see all the preventive measures of both natures.
Immune Globulin
It is an effective and immediate way to make the immune system work against the viral hepatitis. Immune globulin or as abbreviated IG, is a type of medication that consists of many antibodies which fight the infectious viruses in the body. People who already suffered from hepatitis or people who are vulnerable or going to be vulnerable with exposing themselves to such virus prone zones can take this as preventive medication against viral hepatitis.
Vaccination
Taking vaccines is definitely is one good way to become immune to the disease, but hardly anyone would like to be vaccinated when he or she is living in a country absolutely free of hepatitis viruses. So it all depends on your vulnerability to the infection. People living or frequently travelling in areas which are highly lacking sanitization or people going into places that are already considered hepatitis prone zones, should consider taking vaccines.
Living in proper sanitized places
While still a great number of people in the developing and underdeveloped world live in absolute poverty and in most unhealthy condition with little sanitation, you cannot do otherwise but to take extra precaution while travelling to such places. So while travelling abroad or in unknown places, try to stay in modern sanitized and extremely clean places. Sanitation most necessarily means how better you make your living areas free of physical wastes and thus prosper cleanliness. To prevent viral hepatitis there is no better means than to prioritize sanitation in each and every area of living.
Avoid taking food in unhygienic circumstances
Wash your hands properly with medicated soap before eating anything. Moreover, just avoid taking food in places where hygienic cooking procedure and environment is not assured. Avoid taking all those over the counter ready to eat packaged food stuff directly from the pack. Avoid taking food in the open air as thus food can be more vulnerable to possible contamination's. Take properly cooked food served hot as cold and half cooked food are more vulnerable to germs and viruses. While offered a bite from a burger or a sip from a half finished drink as a sign of friendship from a stranger or relatively less known people, try to refuse with prevention of any causes but just do not venture to it as hepatitis spreads ideally through body fluid.
Avoid sharing personal items with strangers
You may be extremely polite and friendly in gesture and it is hard for you to refuse the towel or soap a bather asking from you in a pilgrimage, but if there is hepatitis around that country you just cannot take that risk of sharing such personal items. Alternatively you can leave the thing or dispose it and buy a new one, but sharing them maybe too much risky.
Do not expose yourself to blood
In transmitting hepatitis B and C, being exposed to blood contact is one of the prime reasons and avoid coming into contact with blood at any cost. According to experts, any type of blood contact can transmit hepatitis.
Cover your injuries well
Cuts and injuries, especially in their initial condition should always be covered with bandages. Open injuries are more vulnerable to infections than all our body parts and in vulnerable areas for hepatitis they can prove as lethal as blood contact.
Drink only purified water from trusted sources
In most cases unsafe and non purified drinking water source is the prime cause of Hepatitis and thus hepatitis faster than all other means simply through contaminated source of drinking water. So in new places before sipping from a glass of water just make sure that it is purified and supplied from a trusted hygienic source.
Say no to unsafe sex and physical proximity
You cannot afford to indulge yourself into physical pleasure with unknown or little known a person in an area not adequately up to the mark in respect of sanitation standard, cleanliness in livelihood and other health attributes. Remember sex and any type physical proximity that let you come into contact with other person's body fluid is extremely dangerous as Hepatitis B and C mainly transmits through blood and body fluid.
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