Who Should Do Blood HBsAg test?

1. Hepatitis B is a very harmful virus. Chronic hepatitis B can lead to complications such as liver cirrhosis or cancer in 20-30% of cases.

1. People with chronic hepatitis have no symptoms. A blood HBsAg test can detect it.
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1. Many are caught coincidentally at an early stage, such as on the eve of going abroad, when donating blood.

1. Many are diagnosed too late, when complications such as cirrhosis appear, and the patient's symptoms become apparent.
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1. Who should get the HbsAg test - everyone, or just someone? Let's find out.
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1. country or region where the prevalence of hepatitis B is above 2%, everyone in that country or region (in Bangladesh it is 5.4%. So everyone in our country should do this test).
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1. people with hepatitis B. In this case, if the affected person is a man, the wife should do it first, and if it is a woman, then the husband should do it.
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1. pregnant women. If a pregnant woman is a carrier of hepatitis B, there is a 40 percent chance of the child being infected. If newborns are infected in this way, chronic hepatitis B infection occurs in 90% of cases. However, if the information is known that the mother is infected with hepatitis B, it can be prevented to a large extent if she is given two injections immediately after the birth of the child.
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1. who have received any type of injection, vaccination in the past.

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1. who are polygamous.

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1. immunosuppressive drugs or drugs that can reduce the body's immune system, before starting to use those drugs.

1. Let's take a blood HBsAg test today without waiting for symptoms to find out whether the hepatitis B virus is present in the body or not.