Im 7 weeks pregnant and had the routine blood test and it showed low hep b antib!
Question: What does this mean?? im worried!! The test result showed low hep b antibodies?? Anyone else had this before? The doctor said it is just a matter of a vaccination? Im not a drug user and have had the same partner for years..
Answers: What does this mean?? im worried!! The test result showed low hep b antibodies?? Anyone else had this before? The doctor said it is just a matter of a vaccination? Im not a drug user and have had the same partner for years..
Did you have a Hepatitis B vaccination in the past? If so, that is what is accounting for the antibodies. You WANT those antibodies in your blood; otherwise it means the vaccination did not work.
One of the screening tests for when you are pregnant is for Hepatitis C ANTIGEN, not antibody. Did he do the antigen test, too? If not, he should. Now if the ANTIGEN test would come back positive, there is need for concern.
never had it, sorry.
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maybe they had the same problem
If there are antibodies present, then more than likely you have Hepatitis B and your body just hasn't began to show any symptoms yet. Your body is producing the antibodies to help protect you from the disease.Hepatitis B virus infects the liver of hominoidae, including humans, and causes an inflammation called hepatitis. It is a DNA virus and one of many unrelated viruses that cause viral hepatitis. The disease was originally known as "serum hepatitis"[1]and has caused epidemics in parts of Asia and Africa. Hepatitis B is endemic in China and various other parts of Asia.[2] The proportion of the world's population currently infected with the virus is estimated at 3 to 6%, but up to a third have been exposed. Symptoms of the acute illness caused by the virus include liver inflammation, vomiting, jaundice, and rarely, death. Chronic hepatitis B may eventually cause liver cirrhosis and liver cancer, a fatal disease with very poor response to current chemotherapy.[3] The infection is preventable by vaccination.[4]