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What Does This Hepatitis Screening Test Result Indicate?
Brief Answer:
Need few more details.
Detailed Answer:
Hello dear,
The result indicates you had Hepatitis A in the past.
Also, you are either immunized to Hepatitis B by vaccination or you have completely recovered from a previous Hepatitis B infection .
Anyhow, to interpret the result in full, we need few more details.
1)The status of IgM HPA. Have you done this test?
2)Your HB Ab is positive- whether it is IgM or IgG? Kindly upload all your test reports.
If you have further questions, I will be happy to help.
Wishing you good health.
Thank you.
Need few more details.
Detailed Answer:
Hello dear,
The result indicates you had Hepatitis A in the past.
Also, you are either immunized to Hepatitis B by vaccination or you have completely recovered from a previous Hepatitis B infection .
Anyhow, to interpret the result in full, we need few more details.
1)The status of IgM HPA. Have you done this test?
2)Your HB Ab is positive- whether it is IgM or IgG? Kindly upload all your test reports.
If you have further questions, I will be happy to help.
Wishing you good health.
Thank you.
Above answer was peer-reviewed by :
Dr. Bhagyalaxmi Nalaparaju
No not tested for IgM HPA.
Should I be relaxed upon reading your comments and no cause for worry? - The result indicates you had Hepatitis A in the past.
Also, you are either immunized to Hepatitis B by vaccination or you have completely recovered from a previous Hepatitis B infection .
Should I be relaxed upon reading your comments and no cause for worry? - The result indicates you had Hepatitis A in the past.
Also, you are either immunized to Hepatitis B by vaccination or you have completely recovered from a previous Hepatitis B infection .
Brief Answer:
yes, you need not worry
Detailed Answer:
Hi dear,
If you have no symptoms suggestive of hepatitis (like fatigue, nausea, abdominal pain, anorexia, jaundice etc), and no recent exposure to hepatitis B, you need not worry and no need of further investigations.
You can be confident.
Hope you got cleared now.
If you have no further questions, you can close the discussion and rate the answer.
Thank you.
yes, you need not worry
Detailed Answer:
Hi dear,
If you have no symptoms suggestive of hepatitis (like fatigue, nausea, abdominal pain, anorexia, jaundice etc), and no recent exposure to hepatitis B, you need not worry and no need of further investigations.
You can be confident.
Hope you got cleared now.
If you have no further questions, you can close the discussion and rate the answer.
Thank you.
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Above answer was peer-reviewed by :
Dr. Ashwin Bhandari
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