Some people said that hepatitis viruses are only those viruses which could cause clinical symptoms of hepatitis. Based on what have been reported, people have identified seven types of hepatitis viruses, called A, B, C, D, E, F and G. But at present only hepatitis A, B and C can be tested out in clinic. The disease caused by hepatitis virus is called viral hepatitis and it has a distinction between acute and chronic.
Chronic hepatitis can be divided into active and tardive hepatitis. Therefore viral hepatitis means several contagious diseases caused by different hepatitis viruses. When the disease comes on, it is characterized with necrosis of liver cells and phlogistic reaction. In fact, based on pathogeny, every type of hepatitis should be alone by itself because the infection pathway is different, and that the delitescence and that the way of transformation are also different. However, as they share similar clinical symptoms, people are still keeping the term “viral hepatitis”.
Over the past 20 years, people have got in-depth knowledge about viral diseases and confirmed the persistent virus infection to human being, mainly four types, namely dormant infection, chronic infection, delayed complication after acute infection and chronic virus infection. Nowadays, many papers reported that other known viruses besides hepatitis virus can cause pathology changes of liverish inflammation after they infect human being, including parotitis virus, herpes simplex virus, cytomegalo virus, EB virus, coxsackie virus, enteric cytopathogenic human orphan virus, yellow fever virus, rubella virus, etc. As these viruses cause specific clinical symptoms and they do not belong to hepatitis virus. Although they are not called hepatitis viruses, it does not mean that acute or chronic infection of these viruses can not cause phlogistic liver reaction which will result in hepatomegaly, hepatitis symptom and other complications. In other words, this kind of hepatophilic virus should include several kinds of hepatitis viruses and all other viruses related to liver inflammation.
Patients having hepatophilic viral disease usually goes with abnormity at hepatic dullness area. In clinic, it often shows repeating, crossing, poly-system hepatitis symptoms or any other disease and its complication caused by acute or chronic damage of liver function. That includes fatty liver, hepatic edema and secondary edema resulted from malnutrition, anaemia, hypoproteinemia and endocinours disorder caused by infection of “hepatophilic virus”. In clinical terms, people find those are normal complications or sequelas of hepatophilic viral diseases. And severe hepatic edema and ascites are mostly found among hepatocirrhosis and live cancer patient. But hepatocirrhosis and live cancer can only be found mostly at terminal stages of chronic hepatitis, it is always too late for treatment.
It is advantageous for you to find out whether you have hepatophilic viral diseases and it will not cost you too much time and trouble. On the contrary, you will be free from the clinical symptoms of chronic hepatitis. It also helps you from the development of edema and secondary obesity (even have the effect of weight reduction). If you know you may have got hepatophilic viral disease sooner and it is advisable to take some western or traditional Chinese medicine in time to reach the effect of clinical cure.