Teen Pregnancy Forum - Hep B And Heart Murmurs Are Not Because of Drugs

Someone was nice enough to tell me that suni has a heart murmur and hep b (carrier) because I used drugs, yes I did for maybe the first month, but many here have.
Heart murmurswhat causes heart murmurs?
Heart murmurs are most often caused by defective heart valves. A stenotic (sten-ot'ik) heart valve has a smaller-than-normal opening and can't open completely. A valve may also be unable to close completely. This leads to regurgitation, which is blood leaking backward through the valve when it should be closed.

Murmurs also can be caused by conditions such as pregnancy, fever, thyrotoxicosis (thi"ro-toks"ih-ko'sis) (a diseased condition resulting from an overactive thyroid gland) or anemia.

A diastolic (di"as-tol'ik) murmur occurs when the heart muscle relaxes between beats. A systolic (sis-tol'ik) murmur occurs when the heart muscle contracts. Systolic murmurs are graded by intensity (loudness) from one to six. A grade 1/6 is very faint, heard only with a special effort. A grade 6/6 is extremely loud. It's heard with a stethoscope slightly removed from the chest.

Taken from: htt p://www.Americanheart.Org/presenter.Jhtml? Identifier=4571
see? Pregnancy period can be a cause.

Hep b

who is at risk for hbv infection?
About 5% of people in the u.S. Will get infected with hbv sometime during their lives. If you engage in certain behaviors, your risk may be much higher. You may be at risk if you:

have a job that exposes you to human blood
share a household with someone who has lifelong hbv infection
inject drugs
have sex with a person infected with hbv
have sex with more than one partner during a six-month period
received blood transfusions in the past before excellent blood testing was available (1975)
**are a person whose parents were born in asia, africa, the amazon basin in south america, the pacific islands, eastern europe, or the middle east** (jim was born in india)
**were born in an area listed above**
**were adopted from an area listed above**
are an alaska native
have hemophilia
are a patient or worker in an institution for the developmentally disabled
are an inmate of a long-term correctional facility
travel internationally to areas with a high prevalence of hepatitis b
taken from: http://www.Immunize.Org /catg.D/p4090.Htm
he was at risk to begin with.
He couldve been exposed as a child, or his mother could have been a carrier (she had it but it "went away")