How to Prevent Hepatitis B?
How to Prevent Hepatitis B?
World Health Organization (WHO) recommends, for each health workers have antibodies against hepatitis B. In daily work, health workers at much greater risk of contracting hepatitis B than non-health workers. We know that hepatitis B transmission occurs through bodily fluids.
Transmission can occur vertically, from pregnant mothers to their babies and horizontally from one who suffered from Hepatitis B to others. Horizontal transmission of hepatitis B through blood transfusion, for example, can occur so that the authorities would apply all the blood transfused should be screened for Hepatitis B first. With the rise of HIV cases in the world, since 1992 the blood to be transfused, in addition screened for Hepatitis B, are also screened for HIV.
Hepatitis viruses are an important health problem in the world. The number of people living with Hepatitis B in the world’s estimated 400 million people. That’s why starting this year the WHO set a Hepatitis Day in July to remind that the hepatitis virus is one health problem that must be addressed together.
Actually there has been the world’s commitment to elimination of hepatitis in 2015 later. Although the situation in many developing countries may not have been possible. Actually the majority of acute hepatitis B will recover and only 5% -10%, which will become chronic. The risk of becoming chronic is much higher on vertical transmission, infants who contracted the disease from her mother. Due to the high frequency of Hepatitis B, the number of people who suffer from chronic hepatitis B in our country is estimated 13 million people.
Patients with chronic hepatitis is what needs to be treated so that treatment can prevent chronic hepatitis B develop liver cirrhosis, liver failure, hepatoma (liver cancer), and increasing life expectancy. Herbal remedies function more on improving the quality of life, but until now there has been proven to kill Hepatitis B virus that herbal medicine is only used for therapy to reduce symptoms.
Recently there have been hepatitis B antiviral drugs, such as lamivudine, adefovir, entecavir, and telbivudin, this drug could inhibit the replication of hepatitis B virus Most hepatitis B drugs, such as lamivudine, has long been used as a cure for HIV infection / AIDS. WHO has expressed his concern in infection with hepatitis B and HIV for babies. Antiviral drugs used for HIV are encouraged to use early if in addition there are also HIV infection Hepatitis B. e-lifestyle.us
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