Fatty liver is not hepatitis?

Fatty liver is only excessive hepatic fat content, fat cells filling in a large number of liver cells and cause fatty liver. Because it is not caused by virus, but only due to the accumulation of triglyceride metabolism of abnormal liver function, and are thus reversible, once the liver accumulation of excessive fat removed, the liver function can resume most normal or leave any sequelae.
Fatty liver and hepatitis only clinical manifestations were similar because both are to varying degrees reduce the normal metabolic function of the liver, liver function occurred obstacles, thereby triggering a series of gastrointestinal symptoms. However, they also have a fundamental difference between, because they belong to two different nature of the liver disease. Therefore: Fatty liver is not hepatitis.
In addition, the hepatitis virus is a contagious viral hepatitis, but is not due to fatty liver infection caused by the hepatitis C virus, but by the accumulation of fatty liver, and there is no natural infectious speak.