Hepatitis B

It often doesn’t cause any symptoms in adults and usually passes in a few months without treatment. In children it often persists for years and may eventually cause serious liver damage.

A hepatitis B vaccine is available on the NHS as part of routine child vaccination, or if you’re at high risk.


A hepatitis B vaccine is available on the NHS as part of routine child vaccination, or if you’re at high risk.

Symptoms

Many people with hepatitis B won’t have any symptoms.

If you do develop symptoms, they tend to occur 2 or 3 months after exposure to the hepatitis B virus.

Symptoms of hepatitis B include:

tiredness a high temperature (fever) of 38°C (100.4°F) or above general aches and pains loss of appetite feeling and being sick diarrhoea abdominal pain yellowing of the skin and eyes (jaundice)