How long does it take to show symptoms of Hepatitis B after you've been infected with the disease?

Its called the Incubation Period
and It varies from 2 to 6 months in Hepatitis B

What is Hepatitis B?

Hepatitis B is a serious liver disease. Hepatitis B is the most common liver infection in the world. In all over world about 350 million people are suffering from HBV, of whom, more than 250,000 die from liver-related disease each year. The liver can become inflamed as a result of infection. Hepatitis B is caused by infection with the hepatitis B virus. Hepatitis stops right working of your liver and it also makes your liver swollen. mostly people do not know that they are suffering from Hepatitis B because it does not have any special kind of symptoms. The common symptoms of Hepatitis B are vomiting, jaundice, dehydration, headache, dark yellow colored urine, yellowish eyes and skin, abdominal pain etc.

Causes of Hepatitis B:

Virus is the main cause of Hepatitis B

The virus is the main cause of Hepatitis B. virus can get transferred from one person to another. The hepatitis B virus is transmitted from one person to another via blood so this virus is also called blood-borne virus.

How HVB virus gets transmitted in to the human body?

• Living with the people who are suffering from Hepatitis B
• Having sex with an infected person without using a condom
• If you share the drug needles with any infected person
• Men or women who have multiple sex partners, especially if they do not use a condom
• By use of infected person’s toothbrush, razor, or anything else that could have blood on it.
• If tattooing or body piercing tools are not being clean.
• A person who go from dialysis and involve in kidney disease.
• New born child get it for his infected mother.

Methods to Prevent Yourself for Hepatitis B:

Hepatitis B can be prevented either before or right after exposure to the virus. to prevent yourself from Hepatitis B, keep in mind those following point:

• Use condom if your partner is infected by HBV
• Avoid the contact with blood and other body fluids with the infected persons
• Do not reuse used needles.
• Do cover all open cuts and sores.
• Pregnant women’s should screen her for HBV infection.
• To prevent disease before exposure, hepatitis B vaccine is recommended for all infants, all 11-12 years-old
• The infected person must not share razors, toothbrushes, needles, or any other object that may have become polluted with blood.

Does it vomits?
DOes it feels abdominal pain?
Does it make an eye yellowish to look at?

Many people infected with viral hepatitis have no symptoms. for example, about one-third of people infected with HBV have a completely "silent" disease. when symptoms are present, they may be mild or severe. the most common early symptoms are mild fever, headache, muscle aches, fatigue, loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea. Later symptoms may include dark coffee-colored, rather than dark yellow, urine, clay-colored stools, abdominal pain, and yellowing of the skin and whites of the eyes (jaundice).

About 15 percent to 20 percent of patients develop short-term arthritis-like problems. another one-third of those with hepatitis B develop only mild flu-like symptoms without jaundice. very severe hepatitis B is rare, but it is life-threatening. Signs and symptoms, which require immediate medical attention, include prolonged blood clotting time, personality changes and agitated behavior.

Symptoms of hepatitis B may appear as long as 4 weeks to
6 months after infection with the virus. Many people develop
a chronic or ongoing form of the disease with only vague
symptoms even though liver damage may be occurring.

The early symptoms of viral hepatitis are low-grade fever, itching hives, general achieness, fatigue nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea, foul breath and bitter taste in the mouth, loss of appetite, altered sense of taste and smell, pain or tenderness just below the ribs on the right side, especially when pressure is applied . Symptoms that may follow several days later include: Darkened urine, light colored or gray stool , yellowish skin and eyes (jaundice).

Fatigue, malaise, joint aches, and low-grade fever
Nausea, vomiting, loss of appetite, and abdominal pain
Jaundice and dark urine due to increased bilirubin