What is Hepatitis B? Hepatitis B is a serious liver disease. Hepatitis B is the most common liver infection in the world. In all over world about 350 million people are suffering from HBV, of whom, more than 250,000 die from liver-related disease each year. The liver can become inflamed as a result of infection. Hepatitis B is caused by infection with the hepatitis B virus. Hepatitis stops right working of your liver and it also makes your liver swollen. Mostly people do not know that they are suffering from Hepatitis B because it does not have any special kind of symptoms. The common symptoms of Hepatitis B are vomiting, jaundice, dehydration, headache, dark yellow colored urine, yellowish eyes and skin, abdominal pain etc.
Causes of Hepatitis B:
Virus is the main cause of Hepatitis B
The virus is the main cause of Hepatitis B. virus can get transferred from one person to another. The hepatitis B virus is transmitted from one person to another via blood so this virus is also called blood-borne virus.
How HVB virus gets transmitted in to the human body?
Living with the people who are suffering from Hepatitis B
Having sex with an infected person without using a condom
If you share the drug needles with any infected person
Men or women who have multiple sex partners, especially if they do not use a condom
By use of infected person’s toothbrush, razor, or anything else that could have blood on it.
If tattooing or body piercing tools are not being clean.
A person who go from dialysis and involve in kidney disease.
New born child get it for his infected mother.
Methods to Prevent Yourself for Hepatitis B:
Hepatitis B can be prevented either before or right after exposure to the virus. To prevent yourself from Hepatitis B, keep in mind those following point:
Use condom if your partner is infected by HBV
Avoid the contact with blood and other body fluids with the infected persons
Do not reuse used needles.
Do cover all open cuts and sores.
Pregnant women’s should screen her for HBV infection.
To prevent disease before exposure, hepatitis B vaccine is recommended for all infants, all 11-12 years-old
The infected person must not share razors, toothbrushes, needles, or any other object that may have become polluted with blood.
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