Is ascites contagious?

There are many common diseases. Different diseases have different symptoms, causes, and treatments. If you want to be able to treat your own disease well, you must have a good understanding of your own disease, so that when treating the disease, you can know what method to choose. Ascites is a disease that is very harmful to human health. Is ascites contagious? Many people are not clear about this.

Diseases like ascites have a great impact on the patient's liver function, so when treating such diseases, you must choose a good method. Is ascites contagious? Many people are not clear about this disease.

Is ascites contagious?

Ascites due to cirrhosis is mainly caused by decreased liver function and is a functional disease. Ascites itself is not contagious. The causes of its transmission can be seen from the cause. Ascites can be caused by: severe hepatitis, alcoholic liver, cirrhosis, liver cancer, etc. Among them, chronic hepatitis B and chronic hepatitis C are the main causes of cirrhosis and are contagious.

There are several main ways of transmission of hepatic ascites:

1. Vertical transmission from mother to child. It refers to the transmission of hepatitis B virus from a mother to her baby or fetus during pregnancy and delivery.

2. Transmission through blood. It is mainly transmitted through blood transfusion, injection with unclean syringes, or through medical, hairdressing and beauty equipment that has not been strictly disinfected.

3. Transmission through sexual contact. Because they carry the virus, it is easy to transmit it to each other through sexual intercourse, especially between couples, this type of transmission is very common. In addition, this infection also has a high incidence rate in other bad sexual behaviors.

4. Transmission through contact in daily life. Because people often have small skin or mucous membrane breaks in daily life, if they come into close contact with instruments, objects, banknotes, etc. that carry the virus or are contaminated by the virus, the virus may enter the human body and cause infection.

Through the above introduction, we have a good understanding of whether ascites is contagious. This disease is also contagious, so such patients should use their own daily necessities in life, and family members should not use the patient's things to avoid the occurrence of the disease. In addition, we must have a good understanding of the above transmission routes so that we can prevent them.