How Do You Identify Hepatitis B Symptoms?
Nearly 60,000 Americans are infected with Hepatitis B every year. Many people who have this potentially deadly disease aren’t even aware of it. Infected people often don’t have symptoms. This can allow them to unknowingly spread the disease to others. The good news is Hepatitis B is preventable. Understand the nature of Hepatitis B. Hepatitis B is a virus that attacks the liver and can cause a lifelong infection, cirrhosis of the liver, liver cancer, liver failure or even death. 30% of infected people have no signs or symptoms. Infected children rarely have symptoms. Learn the symptoms of hepatitis B. Symptoms include fatigue, abdominal pain, loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting , joint pain and jaundice (the skin and whites of the eyes appear yellow). Jaundice is a major indicator of hepatitis B but it often doesn’t appear until the other symptoms have started to go away. Hepatitis B can also cause constant discomfort on the right side of the abdomen under the rib cage, where the liver
