What is a hepatitis B virus carrier?

Everyone has heard of hepatitis B and should be familiar with it, but do you know who are the carriers of the hepatitis B virus? What are the symptoms of hepatitis B virus carriers? How to identify hepatitis B virus carriers? In order to affect the treatment of the disease, it is better to know more about it. Let's learn about it together.

1. Systemic manifestations

Patients often feel weak and easily fatigued, and may have a mild fever. Insomnia and nightmares may be related to this.

Patients often feel weak and easily fatigued, and may have a mild fever. Insomnia and dreaminess may be related to this

2. Gastrointestinal manifestations

In hepatitis, liver function is abnormal, bile secretion is reduced, and symptoms such as loss of appetite, nausea, aversion to oil, upper abdominal discomfort, and bloating are common.

3. Jaundice

When the condition is more serious, liver function is impaired, the uptake, binding, secretion and excretion of bilirubin are impaired, and the bilirubin concentration in the blood increases. Bilirubin is excreted in the urine, and the urine turns yellow, which is the earliest sign of jaundice.

If the bilirubin concentration in the blood continues to increase, it can cause yellowing of the eyes and skin. Due to the excretion disorder of bile acid, the concentration of bile acid in the blood increases, and excessive bile acid is deposited in the skin, stimulating the peripheral nerves and causing skin itching.

4. Pain in the liver area

Chronic hepatitis B generally does not cause severe pain. Some patients may experience discomfort, dull pain, tenderness or percussion pain in the right upper abdomen or right hypochondrium. If the pain in the liver area is severe, you should also pay attention to the possibility of bile duct disease, liver cancer, and gastrointestinal disease to avoid misdiagnosis.

5. Hepatosplenomegaly

Patients often have an enlarged liver due to inflammation, congestion, edema, and cholestasis. In the late stage, a large number of liver cells are destroyed, the fibrous tissue shrinks, and the liver may shrink. In acute hepatitis or the early stages of chronic hepatitis, there is no obvious enlargement of the spleen. When portal hypertension occurs, congestion in the spleen may cause splenomegaly.

6. Extrahepatic manifestations

Patients with chronic hepatitis B, especially those with cirrhosis, have a dark and dull complexion, which is called liver disease face. Significant congestion of the thenar and hypothenar eminences of the palm is called liver palm. A cluster of capillaries on the skin that expand radially and are shaped like a spider is called a spider nevus, and it may also appear in other parts of the body.

Men may experience erectile dysfunction, symmetrical or asymmetrical breast hyperplasia, swelling and pain, and breast development, which may occasionally be misdiagnosed as breast cancer; women may experience menstrual disorders, amenorrhea, decreased libido, etc. This may be related to decreased liver function, reduced estrogen inactivation, and increased estrogen in the body.