Hepatitis B is a form of hepatitisvirus. 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 from this disease sufferadults, 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 such as 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 wherethere are many people who inject drugs into their bodies with syringes, not keeping track of their cleanliness and sterility. You can get infected even in a tattoo salon, where a piercing is done, in a hairdressing salon and other places where you can get a shot, a scratch or something like that. Often people pick up hepatitis B right in the medical institutions.
The virus can be transmitted through the bloodstream or throughsome other liquids of the human carrier. In addition to the cases listed above, it should be added that it can be picked up during intercourse, with blood transfusion, and the child can be transferred from the mother to the child.
The important question is,it is necessary to isolate the carriers of hepatitis B from society. It has already been mentioned that the virus is present in all human biological fluids, but it should be clarified that it is practically impossible to get infected through urine, saliva, tears when getting them to 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 fromtwo to six months. The first symptoms include fever, headaches, weakness, an ache in the whole body. The initial symptoms of hepatitis B are similar in many respects to the symptoms of the most common ARI.
A few days after this appearsjaundice, 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 quickly kills this virus,but a decreased 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, various dyspeptic phenomena. In rare cases, jaundice, subfebrile fever, and skin itching appear.
Patients are restless bloating, liquidstool, eructation, sweating, drowsiness, and weakness that does not allow you to work normally. 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 conducted undersupervision 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 from all. It is necessary to contact specialists.
