Current hepatitis B therapeutic effects of interferon are better. Interferon can inhibit the hepatitis B virus activity, making the situation has improved liver inflammation and GOT, GPT numerical decline. However, hepatitis B virus surface antigen are still there, and it will not disappear. And have most of the patients will relapse upon discontinuation of treatment. Side effects of interferon, the most common is the emergence of influenza-like symptoms (fever, headache, body muscle, bone pain), generally appear in the first week of injection of interferon, followed will disappear. However, not all hepatitis B patients are suitable for interferon treatment, but the effect of interferon therapy are not the same need to make a decision by the physician.
In addition, a 88-year Department of Health in November before announcing the approval of new drugs "liver Annenberg (Zeffix)", the drug is currently the only treatment of chronic hepatitis B of oral medication. To take the drug to be conditional, not all hepatitis B patients and carriers are suitable, must be approved by the specialist to identify patients with hepatitis B at present is in a period of only recommend the use of incidence. The use of the drug would be rare but possible side effect is a result of skeletal dissolution, and then dissolved the diaphragm may lead to affect respiratory function, so people must be in compliance with physician medication instructions.
"Liver-an to" the main ingredients of Lamivudine (Latin Cardiff ingot), the drug is the treatment of AIDS cocktail therapy one medication, it is a nucleoside analogue (nucleotide analogue), is a cytosine (cytosine) category . The main mechanism of anti-virus are able to incorporate growing bond with the DNA hybridization (hybridization), and termination of viral replication. After the cessation of medication, relapse cases are common; and may change as a result of viral genes, and drug resistance. Lamivudine oral consecutive therefore must be 52 weeks of treatment, only incurable chronic hepatitis B, or half-way stop may be caused by recurrence or deterioration.
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