STD HEPATITIS B: CHRONIC PERSISTENT HEPATITIS
Posted on 2009 under Men's Health-Erectile Dysfunction | No CommentThe other two-thirds of those who are carriers have what is called chronic persistent hepatitis; they exhibit less severe symptoms and in fact are frequently symptom free, with only mild inflammation of the liver. They are less likely to progress to the more worrisome complications of cirrhosis and liver cancer, although this is still possible.
They are also less likely to be infectious to others, although this too remains a possibility.
Even carriers can occasionally clear the virus from their systems and cure themselves of hepatitis B.
How and why some people clear the infection while others do not is not clear. For those who remain carriers, routine monitoring by a health care provider for complications from the disease is essential.
People with chronic hepatitis B infection may sustain damage to organs other than the liver, similar to that seen with hepatitis C infection (discussed subsequently). Such symptoms include disorders of the skin (polyarteritis nodosa), kidneys [glomerulonephritis), and blood cells (cryoglobulinemias).
People who become infected with hepatitis B are contagious to others during the weeks before they become symptomatic and for up to several months following infection. Those who become chronically infected are potentially infectious to others throughout their lifetimes. Those with chronic active hepatitis are more infectious to others than those who are only carriers (who have chronic persistent hepatitis). People with acute hepatitis B infection should be considered infectious to others until their blood work shows they have cleared the infection, which may take up to three to six months after infection.
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