Hepatitis is an infection that causes inflammation of the liver. This infection can be transmitted from mother to baby if the patient is an expectant mother.
While the infection is usually harmless to your unborn baby and has little effect on your pregnancy, it is important to have the condition managed during your pregnancy to reduce the risk of transmission to your baby and the risk of any long-term liver disease for both you and your baby.
In conjunction with World Hepatitis Day, our Gastroenterologist of Nobel Gastroenterology Centre@ Gleneagles (a member of Healthway Medical), Dr Wang Yu Tien, answers some of the commonly asked questions of Hepatitis in Pregnant Women in the video below.