• Question: can you give me a full explanation on what hepitites is, not sure how u spell it

    Asked by wave490ape on 13 Jul 2023.
    • Photo: Bruno Silvester Lopes

      Bruno Silvester Lopes answered on 13 Jul 2023:

      Hepato=liver, itis=inflammation. It can be caused by certain types of viruses (such as hepatitis A, hepatitis B, or hepatitis C), bacteria, or parasites. Besides this liver damage can also occur from excess alcohol consumption

    • Photo: Hannah Scholes

      Hannah Scholes answered on 13 Jul 2023:

      Exactly as Bruno said, it’s inflammation of the liver. (Hepato = liver, itis = inflammation). It can be caused by different bacteria, viruses (hepatitis A, hepatitis B, hepatitis C), parasites, and it can also happen if you drink too much alcohol.

      Hope that helps! 🙂

    • Photo: Clare Morrow

      Clare Morrow answered on 13 Jul 2023:

      As Hannah and Bruno have said. Some medicines can also attack the liver – medicine induced hepatitis

    • Photo: Kip Heath

      Kip Heath answered on 21 Jul 2023:

      As others said hepatitis (close spelling!) is the inflammation of the liver. But there are lots of causes. In my career I diagnose the viruses that tend to cause it. Some of them are quite weird.

      You might have heard of Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C? But there are also Hepatitis A, Hepatitis D and Hepatitis E. Hepatitis D is my favourite because it’s a ‘defunct’ virus and can’t spread on it’s own. It can only spread in people who already have Hepatitis B. It’s an interesting case of a virus hijacking another virus.

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