Hepatitis B

Is it possible to have Virus and antibody at the same time?

If someone god infected to Hepatitis B...is hair loss a one of the symptoms of Hepatits B or any other hepatitis...?

Is Hepatitis B and C test after 6 months or more exposure...is the test result reliable???

Thank you so much.... hope to hear from anyone who knows and cares....

[Jac567]

http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/119038358/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0

re reliability of test:http://jcm.asm.org/cgi/content/abstract/33/1/225

[shadow83]

??? what on the website?

[cajim]

>>>Is it possible to have Virus and antibody at the same time?

For a short time when virus is being wiped out and antibody is getting stronger.

>>>If someone god infected to Hepatitis B...is hair loss a one of the symptoms of Hepatits B or any other hepatitis...?

Hair loss may be related to treatment such as IFN.

>>>Is Hepatitis B and C test after 6 months or more exposure...is the test result reliable???

If positive, yes, if negative, hard to say.  Then there is the possibility of human error.

[shadow83]

Dear Cajim,

Because I don't know what does IFN mean?

Thank you hope to hear from you soon...

[cajim]

An HBV treatment by injection.

[stevenNYer]

Yes, although not in the majority, there are individuals with chronic HepB that test positive for both the surface antigen and antibody.  In these cases, the surface antibody is not a true antibody to the surface antigen.  There are many manifestations of HepB and this is one of them.