Is liver disease contagious?

There are many types of liver disease, including viral hepatitis, cirrhosis, liver cysts, liver cancer, etc. Viral hepatitis is divided into five types: A, B, C, D, and E. The most common patients in daily life are hepatitis B patients. Whether hepatitis B is contagious has also become a topic of concern for many people. Studies have shown that hepatitis B is contagious and hepatitis B virus carriers are the source of infection, but the symptoms of hepatitis B patients are not obvious.

There are many transmission routes for hepatitis B virus carriers, and sexual transmission is still the main route. Only by understanding the transmission routes can we cut off the source of infection and achieve the goal of preventing hepatitis B. The following are the transmission routes and methods of hepatitis B, which can help us prevent it before it happens.

1. Hepatitis B virus is transmitted through the fetus.

For example, the route by which a mother who is a carrier of hepatitis B virus transmits the virus to her child when she gives birth is called fetal transmission. However, fetal transmission of hepatitis B virus can be effectively avoided. Timely injection of hepatitis B immunoglobulin during the mother's pregnancy and injection of immunoglobulin and hepatitis B vaccine after the baby is born can effectively prevent the disease.

2. Nosocomial transmission of hepatitis B virus through carriers.

For example, some hospitals and beauty salons do not disinfect or do not disinfect thoroughly the instruments used by hepatitis B virus carriers, resulting in the instruments being infected with the hepatitis B virus. When the next normal person uses them, they can easily be infected with the hepatitis B virus, which is already medically acquired transmission. Therefore, when choosing a hospital or beauty salon in daily life, you must choose a large and formal one.

3. Transmission through close contact with hepatitis B virus carriers.

People who live closely with hepatitis B virus carriers have a higher chance of being infected with the virus. For example, if they share razors, washbasins, bowls and chopsticks, etc., the hepatitis B virus carriers have infected these items, and normal people can easily become infected when using them. But there is no need to panic too much. Normal people will not be infected if they have enough antibodies against the virus.

4. Hepatitis B virus is transmitted through insect bites of carriers.

This mode of transmission is mainly seen in tropical and subtropical areas where there are many insects. After the insects bite the hepatitis B virus carriers and then bite the normal people, it is easy for the normal people to be infected with the hepatitis B virus.

Normal people need to check their hepatitis B immunoglobulin regularly. Once the level drops, they need to get a hepatitis B vaccine in time.

There is no need to be afraid of liver disease in life. Contact with hepatitis B virus carriers does not necessarily mean that the disease will be transmitted. We should be sufficiently tolerant of hepatitis B virus carriers.

5. Transmission through the blood of hepatitis B virus carriers.

Blood transmission is the main mode of infection for hepatitis B virus carriers, such as transfusion of whole blood, plasma, serum or other blood products, and transmission through hematogenous injection.

6. Transmission through sexual contact with hepatitis B virus carriers.

It is easy to be infected with hepatitis B virus when having sexual relations with a hepatitis B virus carrier. Among sexual contact transmission, promiscuity, homosexuality and heterosexuality account for the largest proportions. Therefore, for the health of others and yourself, you must use condoms during sexual intercourse.

The above is the transmission route of hepatitis B. In life, we should pay attention to hygiene, wash our hands frequently, learn to protect ourselves, and bandage as soon as bleeding occurs. In fact, the safest way to prevent hepatitis B is to get the hepatitis B vaccine. If conditions permit, regular injection of hepatitis B vaccine can completely isolate the hepatitis B virus.