About Hepatitis B

Hepatitis is a disease forerunner of liver cancer. Hepatitis can impair liver function and the liver as a neutralizing toxins and digestive system in the body that break down food in nutrients to be distributed across a very important organ for humans. Hepatitis is an inflammation of the liver disease due to various reasons. The cause is some type of virus that attacks and causes inflammation and damage to the cells and liver function. Hepatitis has a very close relationship with liver function disorders.

Hepatitis is widely used as a disease that goes into all kinds of inflammatory diseases of the liver ( liver ). Many things can happen that cause hepatitis are not only due to the viral infection from a particular source. Causes of hepatitis can also come from certain types of medications, certain foods or even on one sexual relationship of the couple having hepatitis. Hepatitis disease can affect anyone not of age. Jugat hepatitis can occur in infants , children , adults and the elderly . Hepatitis is also a lot of hit in infants 0-12 months of age, the child is expected to occur from the age of 2-15 years , 15-20 years and adults older people over the age of 40 years and above.

The following are the modes of transmission of hepatitis B virus is a lot going on and experienced particularly if it occurs in children:

1 . Transmission of hepatitis B in infants and children

• - If a mother who has a history of liver disease when it is possible to contain the fetus or the baby also contracted the same strain of hepatitis, even greater risk in infants than mothers.
• - Also can occur through direct contact with a family member suffering from hepatitis B.

2 . Effect of Hepatitis B Virus Infection

• - Hepatitis B virus ( HBV ) can cause acute inflammation or chronic is one of the initial causes of liver cancer.
• - If the infection occurs in infants before the baby is 1 year old ari kurangd have a higher risk of approximately 90 % suffer from acute or chronic hepatitis, but otherwise if hepatitis B infection in infants after 2-5 years of age , the risk of hepatitis B disease will be reduced approximately 50 % even if infection occurs over the age of 5 years the risk of hepatitis disease is only 5-10 %.
• - An estimated 25 % of children who identified the disease becoming chronic hepatitis can progress and develop into cirrhosis ( damage to liver and heart contraction ) and or liver cancer in adults, and only 15 % who progress to cirrhosis or liver cancer.