Hepatitis B

Hepatitis B

When blood, sperm, or another bodily fluid from a person infected with the hepatitis B virus enters the body of someone who is not affected, hepatitis B is transferred.

Causes of Hepatitis B

Hepatitis B is transmitted when blood, semen or another body fluid from a person infected with the virus enters the body of someone who is not infected, whether it is through a puncture in the skin, a shared needle or the exchange of body fluids.

Symptoms of Hepatitis B include the following:

• Clay-colored bowel and dark urine
• Jaundice (yellow hue of the skin and eyes) 
• Fatigue

Diagnosis

Hepatitis B should be checked for in the following groups:

• Infants born to HBV-infected moms
• Infected people's sex partners
• Males who have sex with men who are sexually active but are not in a long-term, mutually committed relationship
• Users of injection drugs
• Household connections of people infected with chronic HBV
• Workers in health care and public safety are at danger of being exposed to blood or blood-contaminated bodily fluids on the job.
• Patients undergoing hemodialysis
• Residents and employees of developmental disability centers
• People born in Africa, Asia, India, Pakistan, or Eastern Europe
• All cancer patients who will be receiving chemotherapy.

Nursing management

• A specific kind of liver infection
• Frequently has no symptoms
• There is no treatment, although the infections frequently resolve on their own.
• Hepatitis vaccine advice.
• The patient's isolation
• A diet low in salt
• Give a high-protein diet.
• Fluid limitation
• Cirrhotic patients are monitored, and HCC surveillance investigations are performed.