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Not many people know, that viral hepatitis could be more dangerous than the HIV virus. The reason, hepatitis B virus can infect 50 to 100 times greater than HIV. From 7 types of viral hepatitis, namely hepatitis A, B, C, D, E, F, and G, viral hepatitis B and C is the type of the most dangerous viruses, because they can develop into liver cancer.

Hepatitis B is a contagious infection that attacks the liver (liver) caused by hepatitis B virus. This virus can only be transmitted through blood contact or other bodily fluids with an infected person, such as blood transfusions, sharing needles, especially for injecting drug users, sexual contacts, use the same eating utensils with an infected person, the birth and pregnancy from mother infected, and so on.

Instead, the virus can not spread through touching or regular contact, and does not spread by food or beverages contaminated.

Symptoms. If our bodies are infected with HBV, there are several symptoms that mark, namely:
Skin color becomes more yellow (jaundice / jaundice)
Colors become darker urine
Tire easily or often felt tired a very, very
Nausea
Vomiting
Pain in the abdomen.
It took many months, even year to recover from these symptoms. And if not immediately treated, HBV can cause chronic liver infection, which then can develop into liver cirrhosis or liver cancer. If already at the stage cirrhosis, can cause death in sufferers.

Danger to children. When was the hepatitis B virus infection becomes chronic depends on what age someone is infected. If someone is infected when childhood, it would be more likely that the infection developed into a more chronic infection.

Approximately 90 percent of infants infected with this virus in the first year, will develop into chronic infection. While the children are infected at the age between one and four years, approximately 30 to 50 percent will develop chronic infections. And about 25 percent of adults die from liver cancer, where he became infected with HBV since childhood. However, about 90 percent of healthy adults newly infected with hepatitis B virus can be recovered and could disappear within six months.

Immunization is important! That is why the hepatitis B vaccine immunization is required since childhood, to avoid children exposed to hepatitis B virus And vaccination should be given three to four doses, according to the routine immunization schedule.

If the hepatitis vaccine series is given in full, then about 95 percent of antibodies in infants, children, and young adults, can protect the body from the virus HBV. After 40 years of age, protection from the vaccine dropped to around 90 percent.

Is there a cure? Now hepatitis B patients can breathe a little. Medications to treat this disease have been found. There are four types of drugs that can be used, namely lamivudin, adefovir, entecavir, or peginterferon alfa-2a, which can be consumed with how to be swallowed (oral) or injection.

But the use of these drugs still have shortcomings. In addition to side effects that may occur, the use of drugs for hepatitis B should be carried out routinely and should not be decided until the patient recovered. If not, then the body would be immune to the drug, and resistant. In addition, drug prices were still likely expensive in Indonesia. The price could be around Rp. 2 million for a drink / shot.

So it’s better to prevent than to cure it?