In 1999, diagnosed with "carrier" gepetita B. Since then observed in infectious diseases, semi-finishing my tests, once a year doing an ultrasound. Indicators in health and in all that time did not go up! The results of the ultrasound is normal! Would like to know what it means to "carrier", what is its effect on the body, is it possible to "hide" the virus from the body, if I can infect the baby during and after pregnancy? And can a "carrier" to grow into some other form of hepatitis?

Respond Tatyana Stepanova, a gastroenterologist, hepatologist If your blood is found only HBsAg, then the probability of infection of the child during pregnancy is 10 - 15%. If in addition to HBsAg, found HBV DNA and HBeAg, the probability of infection of the child during pregnancy increases to 80 - 90%. In the foreign medical literature describing the prevention of intrauterine fetal infection by introducing the mother of three, two and one month before the birth of immunoglobulin. Such immunization is safe for the fetus and reduces the likelihood of infection in the baby. If a child becomes infected during childbirth, the first vaccine against hepatitis B and immunoglobulin in the first hours after birth, preventing infection. "The carrier" can go into hepatitis, if you create the conditions that weaken the immune system: alcoholism, exacerbation of chronic diseases, etc. A similar question: "... next time take and what tests? ALT - 26 U ... U / L; virus HepB. B. ..