I am 21 years old, I will start treatment with interferon because I have hepatitis B. What is the treatment like? I am a bit concerned because I read articles about interferon and write about a very large number of side effects in all of them. Will I be able to work during the treatment?

Interferon treatment is generally associated with side effects that vary in frequency and severity. Most patients experience flu-like symptoms - muscle aches, low-grade fever, fever. According to various statistics, such symptoms concern 30 - 68% of patients treated. The next group of symptoms concerns the gastrointestinal tract - they affect 11-38% of patients treated. Depressions were reported quite often - - in 33% of patients treated. There were also changes in the blood - a decrease in the number of leukocytes and platelets. As for the possibility of going to work - it is difficult to prejudge now. Perhaps it will be impossible, but it cannot be ruled out that the Lord will be able to walk. It depends on how your body reacts individually. I wish you he alth!

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Krystyna Knypl

Internist, hypertensiologist, editor-in-chief of "Gazeta dla Lekarzy".

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