beware .. you can kill hepatitis quietly

Rejekine. Hepatitis B disease is a type of disease that do not show symptoms mean. No wonder when the sufferer is completely unaware that he had suffered from hepatitis B even if already in a chronic condition though.

"The most commonly found are without symptoms. A lot of patients we treat do not know if she was sick. Lucky if there are patients who are diligent or knowingly making a check-up every year. With early treatment, likely to become chronic can certainly be reduced.

you know, it is difficult to determine whether someone suffers from the symptoms of hepatitis B only. Certainly the most valid is based on the results of blood tests in the laboratory.

However, there are symptoms that may be present in patients but not always emerged. "The symptoms that may be present such as fatigue, decreased appetite, fever, diarrhea, discoloration of urine and feces, eye and skin color looks yellow.

someone would have tested positive for hepatitis B by a doctor if you have undergone a series of clinical examination in the laboratory. Your doctor will consider a number of indicators such as HBsAg positive (antigen indicating the presence of infection) or an increase in liver enzymes (SGOT and SGPT).

"From the results of the examination later, the doctor will then determine whether these infections need to be treated or not. For example, not all of which have a positive Hepatitis be treated because it must be seen first of which groups should be seen and other factors that cause it.

Meanwhile, the person would otherwise suffer from chronic B hepatisis when he already had or are suffering from an infection for more than six months. Diagnosis is also based on the presence of HBV DNA (an indication of active viral replication) in serum, increased liver enzymes, and histologic evidence of ultrasound results that show the process of liver inflammation.

Currently, treatment hepatiitis B is available in oral and injectable form. For oral treatment, the patient throughout his life must take drugs that interfere with the ability of the virus to replicate and infect cells of the liver even more. In Indonesia, there are 4 types of oral drugs that are licensed FDA, namely Entecavir, Lamivudine, Adefovir and Telbivudine. Meanwhile, through injection, the patient will be given interferon or the synthesis of compounds that mimic substances that the body produces to fight infection