How can the risk of chronic liver disease be reduced among people chronically infected with hepatitis B?
See your doctor regularly. Additional tests may be needed to check to see if you have liver damage. Do not drink alcohol. Check with your doctor before taking any medications, even over-the-counter and herbal medicines may be toxic to your liver. You may need to get vaccinated against hepatitis A. How can hepatitis B be prevented? • Hepatitis B vaccine is the best protection. All children 0-18 should be vaccinated plus adults in high-risk groups (injection drug users, men who have sex with men, sex or household contacts of a chronically infected person, health care and public safety workers, and hemodialysis patients). • People with hepatitis B should remain aware that their blood and some other body fluids contain the virus. • Use of condoms may help reduce the chance of hepatitis B transmission during sex. • Pregnant women should be tested for hepatitis B. Infants born to hepatitis B-infected mothers should receive hepatitis B immune globulin and vaccine within 12 hours after birth t
