Hepatitis B Surface Antigen (HBsAg) Test in Aligarh - Price & Details

PharmEasy Labs offers a wide array of affordable tests in all major Indian cities and towns. The samples are collected at the customers’ homes, and the reports are delivered by email. 100% accuracy is assured because modern high-tech machines are used and the technicians are very efficient. The reports are verified by our pathologists.

Hepatitis B is a type of viral infection which can be acute (short-term infection) or chronic (long-term infection). People with an acute infection usually heal on their own, but chronic hepatitis B needs treatment.

Hepatitis spreads through contact with blood, or other body fluids from an infected person to another healthy person. This can happen through sexual contact, sharing needles, syringes or other drug injection equipment, or mother-to-baby at birth.

Often hepatitis B has no symptoms. In people with acute hepatitis B, symptoms appear 2 to 5 months after being infected. It can cause liver damage. In chronic hepatitis B, symptoms may not appear until complications develop. And it can take decades after becoming infected. Chronic hepatitis B can develop into long-term health conditions like cirrhosis of the liver, liver cancer, and liver failure. Once you've had hepatitis B, the virus can become active again later in life.

The best way to prevent hepatitis B infection is to get the hepatitis B vaccine. Besides some other ways:

• Do not share needles for injections
• Use condoms during sex
• Maintain personal hygiene
• Do not use the personal items of an infected person

Doctors recommend an HBsAg test if you are having these symptoms:

• Fever
• Fatigue
• Nausea and vomiting
• Dark yellow urine
• Joint pain
• Abdominal pain
• Loss of appetite
• Diarrhoea, coloured bowel movement
• Yellowish eyes and skin

No fasting or any other preparation is required before the HBsAg test. Inform the doctor in advance if you are taking any medicine.

During the HBsAg Test

 A phlebotomist from PharmEasy Labs will reach your house at the pre decided hour for the sample collection. Utmost hygiene and safety are maintained. New needles, syringes and uncontaminated collection tubes are used. The phlebotomist will locate that vein in your arm which is the best for drawing blood from by using a vein finder. The process will take just a few seconds. The sample will then be taken to the Labs.