Than hepatitis B is dangerous

Hepatitis B is a form of hepatitis B virus. To date, it is very common. Hepatitis B can be varied in clinical manifestations and always causes a very severe blow to the liver. Its name was given in the early seventies: before that, it was called hepatitis or serum hepatitis.

Most often, adults suffer from this disease, between the ages of twenty and forty. Regular vaccination helped to reduce the number of infected. Unfortunately, this applies only to developed countries, since in countries, for example, Asia and Africa, many people still get hepatitis as carriers in their childhood. Statistics say that about 10% of residents of these countries are infected with this infection.

Hepatitis B: transmission routes

Most often, infection occurs in places where many people gather, inject drugs into their bodies with syringes, not keeping track of their cleanliness and sterility. You can get infected even in a tattoo parlor, where a piercing is done, in a hairdresser and other places where you can get a shot, a scratch or something like that. Often, people pick up hepatitis B directly in medical institutions.

The virus can be transmitted through the bloodstream or through any other fluids of the human carrier. In addition to the cases listed above, it should be added that it can be picked up during intercourse, blood transfusion, and the child can be transmitted from the mother to the child.

Important is the question of whether it is necessary to isolate carriers of hepatitis B from society. It has already been mentioned that the virus is present in all human biological fluids, but it needs to be clarified that it is almost impossible to get infected through urine, saliva, tears when getting them on undamaged skin areas . This means that one should not be particularly afraid of household contact with those who are carriers of hepatitis B.

At the risk of infection are those who:

- leads a promiscuous sex life and is rarely protected;

- uses injecting drugs;

- works in the field of health;

- lives next door to an infected person;

Was born from an infected mother.

Hepatitis B: symptoms

The incubation period in this case lasts from two to six months. The first symptoms include fever, headaches, weakness, an ache all over the body. The initial symptoms of hepatitis B are in many respects similar to the symptoms of the most common ARI.

A few days after this, jaundice, nausea, appetite worsens, abundant vomiting, pain in the right upper quadrant. The feces become colorless, and the urine becomes noticeably dark. As a rule, after the appearance of jaundice, all symptoms begin to subside.

Normal immunity will quickly kill this virus, but a lower one can cause the hepatitis B to become chronic. For such hepatitis B is very characteristic of an increase in the liver, pain in the hypochondrium, all sorts of dyspeptic phenomena. In rare cases, jaundice, subfebrile temperature, and also itchy skin.

Patients are unaware of bloating, loose stools, eructations, sweating, drowsiness, and weakness, which does not allow for normal work. Chronic Hepatitis B slowly but surely destroys the liver, gradually depriving it of the ability to perform its basic functions.

Treatment of hepatitis B

Treatment in this case should be under the supervision of a doctor. It includes procedures, taking medications, as well as special diets. The patient should not eat fatty foods, and he is strictly forbidden to drink alcohol.

Chronic hepatitis can be cured completely and without consequences it is possible only in ten fifteen percent of cases of all. It is necessary to contact specialists.