During pregnancy and after giving blood, it turned out that I am a carrier of HBsAg. My child has been vaccinated immediately after birth, then after a month and then again after 2 months following, said to be done in 1 year. How my child is now protected and whether the correct scheme to be vaccinated? As far as "carrier" is dangerous for my health and that of my husband and child? Will I have a second child healthy?

Respond Tatyana Stepanova, a gastroenterologist, hepatologist To learn the immunity against hepatitis B, your baby, he needs to donate blood for antibodies to HBsAg. Antibody titer less than 10 IU / L indicates the absence of immunity, from 10 to 100 IU / L - vaccination within 1 year, followed by control antibody titers above 100 IU / L - booster after 10 years. "The carrier HBsAg" may proceed to - different ways: HBsAg may disappear on their own, with lowered immunity, alcohol, the disease can be activated, or a lifetime you will, "the carrier HBsAg". If your husband does not have immunity against hepatitis B, he is to get vaccinated. Perhaps your husband developed a natural immunity against hepatitis B, if it has not been inoculated. To determine this, he needs to take a blood test for antibodies to HBcAg. The presence of antibodies talks about immunity, lack of it - the need for vaccination. Yes, you can have a healthy baby. Stasis after the birth of his need to enter the immunoglobulin and make the first vaccinated against hepatitis B. A similar question: ... please have my husband's hepatitis B, I had a child, instilled in him at birth after the first vaccination second detained ...