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When to Seek Medical Care

Call your health care professional if you have any of the following:

• Nausea and vomiting that does not go away in 1-2 days
  
  
• The inability to keep down liquids
  
  
• A high fever or fever that persists more than 2 days
  
  
• Yellow skin or eyes
  
  
• Dark-colored urine (like tea or cola)
  
  
• Pain in the abdomen.

For severe symptoms including confusion or delirium go to a hospital emergency department.

You should also contact your health care practitioner if you think you may have been exposed to the hepatitis B virus.

If you have chronic hepatitis B infection and think you might be pregnant; or if  you are pregnant and think you have been exposed to hepatitis B inform health care practitioner right away.