Hepatitis B? What are the treatments?

The disease caused by Hepatitis virus can be acute, chronic inactive or chronic active. The treatment differs according to the state of the disease.

If you have acute hepatitis B virus infection, then specific treatment is given for the disease. Some people become very anxious when they are not given any treatment, but they have to understand that it is the best treatment for the disease. Let me explain why.

Like in many other viral diseases, hepatitis B infection is also a disease caused by a virus. In many of the viral diseases we can’t do much to destroy the virus. There are several drugs that have been shown results, but the best way is to let the body fight against it by it self. So all we have to do is give our bodies the optimum condition to fight, so it does not have to spend energy on other things. That’s why the treatment for acute illness is rest and symptomatic treatment. So the body finally develops immunity against the virus and become resistant.

On the other hand the people who develop chronic illness are the once who were unable to fight against the virus successfully. So the virus persists in their bodies causing continuous damage to the liver finally causing cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. Therefore, such patients are given medications like interferon to kill the virus.