Hepatitis B is a terrible disease that can kill a liver 100%. Check for its presence will not hurt anyone.

Hepatitis B is a form of hepatitis B virus. Today it is very widespread. Hepatitis B can be varied in clinical manifestations and always causes a very severe blow to the liver. Its name was given to the infection first 70's: previously it was called hepatitis or serum hepatitis.

In most cases, adults suffer from this disease, between the ages of 20 and 40. Constant vaccination helped reduce the number of infected. Unfortunately, this applies only to advanced countries, because in countries, for example, Asia and Africa, many inmates still in childhood get hepatitis in carriage. Statistics say that about 10 percent of the inhabitants of these states are infected with this infection.

Hepatitis B: transmission routes In most cases, infection occurs in places where there are many people who inject drugs into their bodies with syringes, not keeping track of their purity and sterility. You can get infected even in a tattoo parlor, where piercings are done, in a hairdresser and other places where you can get a shot, a scratch or something similar. Often people pick up hepatitis B right in the medical institutions.

The virus can be transmitted through the blood or through any other water of the human carrier. In addition to the above cases, it is worth adding that you can grab it during intercourse, with blood transfusion, and the child can be transmitted from the mother.

The question is fundamental as to whether it is necessary to isolate carriers of hepatitis B from society. It has already been mentioned that the virus is found in all human bio-fluids, but it is necessary to clarify that through urine, saliva, tears from getting them to intact skin areas is virtually impossible to catch. This means that one should not be particularly afraid of household contact with the one who is the carrier of hepatitis B.

In the risk of infection are those who:.

- leads a chaotic sex life and is occasionally protected;.

- uses injecting drugs;.

- works in the field of health;.

- lives next door to an infected person;.

- born of an infected mother.

Hepatitis B: symptoms The incubation period in this case lasts from 2 to 6 months. The first symptoms include fever, migraine, weakness, aches all over the body. The initial symptoms of hepatitis B are almost identical in all cases with the symptoms of the most common acute respiratory disease.

After a number of days after which there is jaundice, nausea, appetite is aggravated, profuse vomiting, in the right upper quadrant appear pain. The feces become dim, and the urine is noticeably dark. Usually, after the appearance of jaundice, all symptoms begin to subside.

Ordinary immunity is rapidly killing this virus, but a lower one can become a prerequisite for the fact that hepatitis B will be reincarnated in the acquired.

For such hepatitis B is very typical increase in the liver, pain in the hypochondrium, various dyspeptic phenomena. In rare cases, jaundice occurs, subfebrile temperature, and itchy itching.

Unhealthy bloated swelling of the tummy, watery stools, eructations, sweating, drowsiness, also weakness, which does not give the ability to work normally. Acquired Hepatitis B slowly but surely destroys the liver, evenly depriving it of its ability to do its main functions.

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