As evident hepatitis B?

Viral hepatitis B may be acute and chronic. From the moment of infection to the deterioration of the well-being held from 42 to 180 days. In some cases, the disease begins with jaundice. However, usually the first signs of disease are common fatigue, malaise, declining appetite, increasing the temperature to 38-39 ° C, can be nausea, vomiting, headache, pain in muscles, joints, cough, runny nose. The disease is subtly - at this stage it easily confused with the flu or cold. All this takes 1-2 weeks, during which some lose flesh on 3-5 kilograms. Then the patients notice darkening of urine, then yellow color scler eyes, and later skin. It starts with icteric period, which lasts for 3-4 weeks. There may disturb pain, lighter calories. The period of recovery lasts 2-12 weeks, is characterized by the disappearance of jaundice, improve the general condition, but is likely to remain a small increase in the liver. In 80-90% of cases is healing. If the disease is delayed until 6 months, then likely move acute phase of chronic disease. Some of the 5-10% of infected adults and 30% of children infected between the ages of 1 to 5 years and 90% is not a vaccine, inoculated newborns born to mothers, sick with chronic hepatitis B disease runs in a carrier, ie no manifestations characteristic of chronic hepatitis. Chronic hepatitis is not always preceded by an acute form. Chronic hepatitis can show itself occasionally incomprehensible weakness, fatigue, very rarely in the period of - the appearance of jaundice and deterioration of general condition, or for a long time does not show itself does.