My niece was diagnosed with hepatitis A, and early in the disease she had contact with me and my children. I want to know, how do I now protect yourself and your family from infection, and it's too late for me now to put vaccinated against hepatitis B? Children have been vaccinated against hepatitis A.

Respond Tatyana Stepanova, a gastroenterologist, hepatologist If from the moment of contact with patients with viral hepatitis A was not more than 14 days, you can protect yourself from the disease (if the contamination occurred) by introducing human immunoglobulin. In this case, the disease can be prevented by 87%. Desirable combination of active and passive immunization, ie be vaccinated against hepatitis A (Havrix) and enter the immunoglobulin. Similar question: ... is that hepatitis C does not show ... possible moment of infection, or if ...