If a child obnaruzheli hepatitis B, whether it has already chronic stage? He was infected from the mother! The child is 5 months old.

Respond Tatyana Stepanova, a gastroenterologist, hepatologist If the hepatitis B virus is transmitted in utero, during pregnancy, it is possible that now is a chronic form of the disease as a chronic form, we put in six months from the time of infection. And when the infection occurred in utero is difficult to say. Similar question: ... but there is a chronic form of hepatitis B. The child is 5 years, with ... that he had been a chronic form of B. ..