Q. What does inactive carrier of hepatitis B virus mean?

Hi,

Welcome to icliniq.com.

I understand your concern.

I suggest you get the following tests for evaluation purposes:

HbeAg (hepatitis B e-antigen), HbeAb (hepatitis B e antibody), hepatitis D antibody, liver function tests, creatinine, HBV-DNA PCR (hepatitis B virus-deoxyribonucleic acid polymerase chain reaction) quantitative, ultrasound of the abdomen to rule out chronic liver diseases, portal hypertension, and fibroscan of the liver.

Please follow up with the investigations.

I hope this helps.

Hi,

Welcome back to icliniq.com.

I understand your concern.

I have seen your reports (attachment removed to protect the patient’s identity), which you have uploaded, and they all are normal. I would wait for other reports to come before suggesting treatment. It seems that your liver is functioning fine, and only hepatitis B infection is present but it is not causing active inflammation or damage to the liver.

Hi,

Welcome back to icliniq.com.

I understand your concern.

I have seen your reports (attachment removed to protect the patient’s identity). It is an inactive carrier. It means the virus is within your liver and doing no damage to the liver. It is suggested that there is no requirement of treatment for this condition unless any family member had liver tumor due to hepatitis B infection, or the person is age above 40 years of age or presence of co-infection such as Hepatitis C or HIV or AIDS virus infection. Since you do not have any of the above situations, you need not take the treatment for now. But you have to follow up every six months with liver function tests, alpha-fetoprotein, hepatitis B DNA viral load, and good quality liver ultrasound. I suggest you get one last test. For now, it is a fibroscan of the liver, which is similar to ultrasound, but it gives a numerical value for the amount of damage to the liver caused by hepatitis B infection.

I hope this helps.

Same symptoms doesn’t mean you have the same problem. Consult a doctor now!

Dr. Ajeet Kumar

Experience: 13 + Yrs

Medical Gastroenterology

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