Experts recommend treatments for hepatitis A

If you suffer from hepatitis A, you need to be cautious in choosing a treatment method. First of all, you should avoid drinking alcohol, get more rest, and not overwork. You should also be cautious in using medications because some medications can damage the health of the liver.

(1) Avoid drinking alcohol

Treatment for hepatitis A: Avoid drinking alcohol, overwork, and using drugs that damage the liver.

(2) Supportive therapy in the treatment of hepatitis A

Patients with jaundice hepatitis should rest in bed in the early stage and be given easily digestible, nutritious, colorful, fragrant and delicious food, as well as fresh vegetables and fruits. The treatment for hepatitis A is to provide intravenous fluids to those who cannot eat, supply adequate calories, pay attention to water and electrolyte balance, and supply vitamin C and B vitamins. For those with anorexia and nausea, symptomatic treatment such as multienzyme tablets and metoclopramide will be given.

(3) Treatment of hepatitis A with traditional Chinese medicine

For patients with jaundice or elevated alanine hydrogen transferase, the treatment of hepatitis A can be given heat-clearing and detoxifying agents, such as dandelion, selfheal, isatis root, honeysuckle, and centella asiatica decoction or artemisia capillaris, centella asiatica, white grass root, police and red peony root decoction, which are generally effective. For patients who are not satisfied with the effects of reducing jaundice and lowering alcohol, the treatment method can add water decoction of Artemisia capillaris, Gardenia jasminoides, Coptis chinensis, Phellodendron chinense, Phellodendron amurense and Rhubarb, or 40 ml to 60 ml of Artemisia capillaris injection, and 400 ml of 10% glucose solution, intravenous drip. If the jaundice is deep, 120 mg of vitamin K can be added by intravenous drip through Murphy tube at the same time. Hepatitis A can also be treated by cooling blood and activating blood circulation, with heavy use of traditional Chinese medicine prescriptions containing red peony root.