VIRAL HEPATITIS

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VIRAL HEPATITIS

Viral hepatitis.

Introduction.

Digestive Apparatus.

The digestive apparatus must like function assure the digestion or assimilation different foods.

The digestion consists of reducing all foods in elementary substances simpler, able to happen to the blood to be used by the organism:

• Is like a power plant (power paper)

• Is for forming the necessary materials for the construction of the cellular architecture (plastic paper)

PHYSIOLOGY.

As we already know, the function of the digestive apparatus is to assure the digestion. The assimilation of different foods is obtained by its degradation in simple elements: fatty acid lipids, glúcidos in simple sugars (bears) prótidos in amino acids.

The set of these transformations needs combined mechanical and chemical actions. The mechanical actions consist of movements of mixed (stomach) and peristálticos (internal) The chemical actions require to digestive enzymes (also called diastasas) Lipasas degrades lipids, glucidasas glúcidos and the proteases the proteins.

The digestion begins in the mouth. By the mastication, the teeth crush and divide - mechanical action the foods, facilitating the contact with the enzyme to salivar, the ptialina (glucidasa) chemical action - Therefore, the saliva (1 l to 1. 5 ls per day) attacks sugars and dampens the mucosa. It transforms foods into a doughy nourishing skittle.

The esophagus is a simple one via of step. The liquids descend by the effect of their own weight. The solid foods are impelled by the peristálticos movements, towards the stomach, tensile cavity that performs 3 functions simultaneously:

• gastric Motilidad, assuring the mixed one the foods that gives rise to the formation of quimo. This mechanical action is under the dependency of the parasimpático nervous system.

• Degradation of foods, being responsible the gastric juice that forms from:

• Acid hydrochlorate,

• protective Mucus of the mucosa and.

• Pepsina, proteolytic enzyme.

The secret stomach 2 ls of gastric juice per day. The secretion is regulated by the nerves vague (order nervous) and by the gastrina (hormonal order)

• Storage of foods:

The stomach stores foods and releases quimo very progressively. The gastric evacuating becomes through píloro, in small amounts. This progressive liberation in the duodeno allows to the intestine an optimal yield. The gastric evacuation needs a total of 5 to 6 hours, depending on the composition of the food.

The essential of the digestion takes place in the duodeno and the rest of the intestine. The duodeno simultaneously receives the pancreáticos bile and enzymes. Let us see the paper of each one of them.

Intestinal Digestiòn.

• the bile is secretada by the hepatocitos, it is stored in the biliary vesicle and it is excreted when the food ingestion takes place. It is constituted essentially by biliary salts and cholesterol. Its paper is the one of emulsionar greasy, transforming them into micro - drops that are more easily degradables by lipasas pancreáticas and intestinal. The bile prepares, this way, the digestion of the greasy bodies.

• On the other hand alkaline his pH neutralizes the acidity of quimo gastric.

• the pancreático juice.

The páncreas are the main source of enzymes of the digestion as they are lipasas, colesterolesterasas, glucidasas (amylase) and several proteases: tripsina, quimotripsina carboxipeptidasas, elastasa.

The pancreático juice allows the degradation of the glúcidos ones and the prótidos ones. He is only the able one to degrade fats.

• the intestinal juice.

The enterocitos also synthesize enzymes of degradation like glucidasas, proteases and perhaps lipasas.

Let us remember that they produce secretina that triggers the pancreática secretion.

With the digestion one has obtained that the complex foods can be absorbed and be assimilated.

Intestinal absorption.

How takes place this absorption or assimilation?

• the intestinal vellosidades.

By its system of you fold covered by a carpet of intestinal vellosidades, the organism increases of considerable way the faying surface of the intestinal mucosa with the food. The set of vellosidades - that constitute the absorption organ represents a surface of 250 m2. He is widely vascularizado and the cells of coating - enterocitos - is specialized in the absorption function.

• the absorption.

The nutrients cross the enterocitos. Amino acids and bears are absorbed by the capillaries and follow the route sanguineous (vein carries towards the liver)

Fatty acids and glicerol are absorbed, and once in the enterocito they become to recombine forming triglicéridos; these surrounded by proteins form then microscopic drops or quilomicrones that through the lymphatic route reaches the veins and the heart, without happening through the liver.

The heavy intestine.

Five to six hours after to have produced the ingestion of the food, quimo intestinal reaches the heavy intestine. The cólico transit lasts 24 hours approximately.

The nonsecret colon no digestive enzyme nevertheless, has an important paper in the reabsorción of water and mineral salts. The dehydration of quimo produces a more consistent intestinal content. The hardness of lees depends on the duration of the cólico transit.

The heavy intestine is colonized by an important saprófita bacterial flora that it acts on the glucídicos remainders of the digestion causing reactions of fermentation and on the protídicos remainders causing reactions of rotting. Both reactions are accompanied by a gas liberation.

Defecación.

It is triggered when the rectal blister is full. The defecación needs the liberation the anal sphincter, constituted partly by fluted muscular fibers. It is the only element of the alimentary canal that has a voluntary operation.

The fecal skittle, is compound of food remainders nondigested.

Definition.

The viral hepatitis is a generalized infection of viral origin that attacks the liver.

They exist several virus that can produce a hepática infection in the man. Its knowledge is now much more easy thanks to the discovery from specific markers. Speech of virus "To", virus "B", virus "C", "and" and "G". We will not enter the description of each one of them. They will be general form.

Clinical signs.

Of entrance, we will remember that a 80% of cases of viral hepatitis exist that they happen unnoticed.

Next, we will describe a common form with the most characteristic plus signs.

In the benign ictérica form, several phases follow one another.

• Incubation: it varies according to the type of virus, therefore the incubation of the virus To can last between 10 and 15 days, the one of virus B between 2 and 3 months.

• preictérica Phase, is characterized by the following pródromos: pseudogripal syndrome (with fever, migraines, arthralgias, mialgias)

Digestive upheavals (with anorexy, nauseas, vomits, pains hipocondrio straight)

Cutaneous upheavals (eruption, inconstante prurito)

• ictérica Phase, this one hard one between 1 and 2 weeks. During this phase, the infectious syndrome disappears and appear you tinkle dark and descoloridas lees.

• benign Forma: it always evolves towards the treatment. Nevertheless, it appears a noticeable asthenia of variable duration and, sometimes, digestive upheavals that can persist during some weeks.

At the time of diagnosing a hepatitis, some clinical examinations are indispensable.

Hepática biochemistry.

This examination is fundamental.

• Elevation of transaminasas (GOT and GPT) = 10 to 50 times over its normal value.

• Elevation of the conjugated bilirrubina.

Serológicos analyses.

• Valuation of the antibodies (antiVHA, antiVHB and antiVHC)

Hepática biopsy.

Reserve to persistent the chronic forms. For a reason or purpose informative, we will say that the hepática biopsy sample characteristic histológicas injuries: signs of degeneration (necrosis of the hepatocitos) signs of regeneration (numerous cellular divisions) signs of inflammation (inflammatory infiltration)

Treatment.

1. Hygienic - dietetic treatment.

Rest is advised to fight against the fatigue and the respect of basic the hygienic - dietetic rules. Although in these cases an nourishing regime is not prescribed strict, exist norms almost inviolable: to avoid fats and, mainly, to suppress the ingestion of spirits.

2. Bases for the treatment.

The prescription habits have changed throughout last the ten years. At the moment, in most of the cases, unamimity in recommending the abstention from any therapeutic chemistry exists almost.

3. Fitoterapia.

Medicinal plants that can be used in the treatment of viral hepatitis.

They could be used to diminish the symptoms of this disease plants like Thistle Maria, Eupatorio and Alcachofa.

Plants adapted for this disease.

Thistle Maria.

Artichoke.

Eupatorio.

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