Hepatitis A

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Hepatitis A

I . Overview

Hepatitis is a disease that causes inflammation to the liver The liver is the largest glandular organ within of human body . It plays the most important function as filter to purify and cleanse our body from anything it ingests as part of the digestive system . Some of its functions include detoxifying alcohol , drugs , pathogens , environmental toxins , and hazardous microorganisms that enter our body whether orally or epidermally . The liver cells remove soluble substances from the necessary nutrients such as

oxygen , acids , fats , and wastes from the blood all the time to produce the energy that our body needs to perform everyday . The liver also eliminates the excess hormones from the blood and provides feedback for the release of certain hormones that perform certain functions in the body . It stores vitamins and folic acid as well as synthesizes blood clotting factors . As Dr . Melissa Palmer would put it , the liver serves as the body 's watchdog , grocer , housekeeper bodybuilder , energy plant supervisor and sanitation engineer ' all rolled into one (8-9 . If the liver does not function well , it can result in infertility and behavior changes including the sexual dysfunctions which would have psychological repercussions to an individual , though it varies from one individual to another based on heredity and other variations of characteristics

Hepatitis A is an infectious disease which is related to other viruses affecting the inflammation of liver . This virus is formerly known as infectious hepatitis to serve as a cause...