Case 1: High risk for hepatitis B; that is, a female healthcare worker who is in close and frequent contact with blood and patient body fluids, and chronic hepatitis B after acute hepatitis B (jaundice and liver inflammation),
Case 2: A 23-year-old healthy male who has never had any jaundice before.
These two cases should be monitored for life, using anti-virus drugs.
Female healthcare personnel should have close follow-up of her and her newborn baby during pregnancy.
Chronic hepatitis is a chronic disease requiring continuous monitoring and treatment.
If monitoring and treatment are not performed, it leads to cirrhosis and liver cancer.
One fourth of people with chronic hepatitis B is cirrhosis.
People with chronic hepatitis B have a 10-300-fold greater risk of developing liver cancer.
Hepatitis B: is a viral disease transmitted by blood and body fluids (sexual secretions such as semen) or from the mother to the baby.
Using sexually transmitted materials from mother to baby and with blood; injector, manicure-pedicure, razor, scissors etc. It is transmitted by.
hepatitis B in Turkey, the most common are infected in childhood.
Those who have frequent contact with blood have a higher risk than those who have more than one sexual partner.
It is possible to prevent hepatitis B.
It has an effective and lifelong protection.
Except for vaccination; It is important not to use common material such as toothbrush, scissors, razor, needle, use of gloves in contact with protected sexual intercourse, blood and body fluids.
It is sufficient to be vaccinated in the newborn period and to be shown to be protective by vaccination with blood test.
Otherwise, everyone has to check the immune status with a blood test.
In Turkey since 1998, health care access and are vaccinated every newborn.
However, individuals under the age of 18 who have not been vaccinated or who have not been vaccinated or who have not been vaccinated before 1998; should be vaccinated.
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