Symptoms of hepatitis B

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Hepatitis B is also known as viral hepatitis B in clinic. It is a disease caused by hepatitis B virus. Its main clinical manifestations are body fatigue, loss of appetite, frequent nausea, vomiting, greasy food, hepatomegaly and abnormal liver function. Clinically, some cases had symptoms of fever and jaundice; However, a few cases can eventually become chronic, and can eventually develop cirrhosis or liver cancer; Severe cases can quickly progress to severe hepatitis; Other carriers of hepatitis B virus can be transformed into chronic hepatitis B. There are many symptoms of hepatitis B, including acute icteric hepatitis (or non icteric hepatitis), chronic hepatitis B, acute and chronic severe hepatitis B.

Symptoms of hepatitis B

Acute icteric hepatitis can be divided into: pre jaundice: the main characteristics of this stage are slow onset, patients often anorexia, and physical fatigue, this stage will last about 2 weeks; Jaundice stage is characterized by obvious yellow staining of sclera and skin. The most important is jaundice; During the recovery period, jaundice gradually subsided, various symptoms gradually disappeared, and liver function became normal. The main manifestation of acute non icteric hepatitis is slow onset, and the symptoms of many patients are not obvious.

Chronic hepatitis B is formed in the course of hepatitis more than half a year, this disease is often found in physical examination. More common in digestive disorders, mainly manifested as lack of appetite, patients not good greasy, abdominal distension. Most patients have symptoms of fatigue and liver discomfort. Often because of fatigue, emotional change, climate change makes the symptoms worse. And some patients have neurological disorders, such as dizziness, insomnia, dreaminess and other symptoms, some patients may also have bleeding phenomenon.

Acute severe hepatitis is also called fulminant hepatitis in clinic. At the beginning, it is the same as acute icteric hepatitis, but the disease develops rapidly. About 10 days after the onset of the disease, there will be mental symptoms, such as excitement, abnormal personality, unstable walking, unclear vision, often coma and other symptoms. Chronic severe hepatitis: in clinical manifestations and subacute severe hepatitis almost. But it is produced on the basis of chronic hepatitis and liver cirrhosis. At this time, the liver has been seriously damaged.

matters needing attention

1. For the prevention of hepatitis B, the most important thing is to manage the source of infection and isolate hepatitis B patients irregularly. 2. It is equally important to cut off the transmission route of hepatitis B virus and strengthen health education and management. At the same time, we should prevent iatrogenic transmission and strengthen the management of blood products. 3. To protect the susceptible population, we should strengthen the research of hepatitis B vaccine and the injection of hepatitis B vaccine.