Hepatitis B is More Infectious than HIV
Hepatitis B virus is one cause of severe liver infection. In United States, 1 in 20 people can be infected with this virus. Each year there are 2 million people infected, 350 people with chronic status, and an estimated 600 thousand people in the world died from this disease.
This virus has a transmission medium that is similar to HIV, through blood and body fluids. Hepatitis B is not transmitted through skin contact, sweat, and tears.
Some symptoms of this disease include:
1. Decreased appetite.
2. Nausea vomiting.
3. Weak.
4. Abdominal pain especially the upper right below the ribs.
5. Yellow skin and eyes known as jaundice.
6. Joint pain.
World Health Organization (WHO) recognizes that the hepatitis B virus potentially 50 to 100 times more infectious (infectious) compared with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV).
Risk of Hepatitis B increases if:
1. Users of unsafe syringe.
2. Unprotected sexual intercourse.
Use condoms with latex or polyurethane material if latex allergy.
3. Born from mothers that suffering from Hepatitis B.
If you feel has taken a risk of infection of Hepatitis B, immediately consult to the doctor to be able to get an injection of immunoglobulin within 24 hours.
If you know has suffered from Hepatitis B, its good for:
1. Always protected when sexual intercourse.
2. Tell to your sexual partner that you are suffering from Hepatitis B.
3. Also tell to the health worker if you are being treated in hospital for a particular disease, so health workers can protect themselves by wearing gloves when performing medical acts.
4. Do not lend your hair or mustache razor and toothbrush.
5. Tell to the gynecologist if you are pregnant.
Hepatitis B can be acute (less than 6 months) or chronic (more than 6 months). Chronic conditions can cause cirrhosis of the liver or conditions that cause permanent damage to liver tissue, liver function failure or even a fatal cancer.
Although specific therapy for this virus is still under further investigation, this virus can actually be prevented simply by making the vaccine. Hepatitis B vaccine Engerix-B is known as an effective way to provide 95% protection in children and adults.
It should be noted that there are side effects after administration of this vaccine in the form of weak, headache, nausea and swelling around the injection, which did not last long.