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Hepatitis B - Introduction, Effects, and Prevention
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Hepatitis B - Introduction, Effects, and Prevention
Thanks for reading, hope you learned something about HBV!
Tai Wai
Most Importantly-Prevention
Risk Factors?
* Do a job that includes exposure to human blood
* Share needles while doing intravenous (IV) drug use
* Have unprotected sex with someone who is infected with HBV, or with more than one partner
* Share a household with someone who is infected with chronic HBV disease
* Receive hemodialysis for end-stage kidney (renal) disease
* Travel to regions with high infection rates of HBV, such as Africa, Central and Southeast Asia, and Eastern Europe
* Have a sexually transmitted infection such as gonorrhea or chlamydia
If you can prevent it, its better then getting it and then trying to get rid of it..
Vaccine-A vaccine of HBV is available
Avoiding the risk factors-As they will increase the chance of getting it, avoiding them is a good way to prevent it from getting to you.
-Be careful when you travel to an area in the world which has a high concentration of infected people of HBV
Effects on the Human Body?
Acute: Begins with general ill-health, loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, body aches, mild fever, and dark urine, and then progresses to development of jaundice
The disease may also develop into severe liver disease (fulminant hepatic failure), and die as a result.
-The effects may also be completely unnoticed
-Itchy skin is an effect of all the Hepatitis diseases
What is it?
Treatment? Can it be cured?
Hepatitis B is a disease caused by the HBV, Hepatitis B Virus
Hepatitis B is split into two types, chronic and acute.
-Chronic means long term, acute means short term
About 1/3 of the world population has been infected with Hepatitis B some point in their life.
-Endemic (originated) in China
If you notice you have HBV in your body, receiving an injection of Hepatitis B immune globulin within 24 hours of infection of coming in contact with the virus can prevent Hepatitis B to be developed
If you get infected by an acute type of disease, it will disappear itself, and you will not have to get treatment immediately.
=Close attention is advised for acute disease carriers
No cure at the moment
-Liver transplant is the LAST RESORT ONLY