Is cirrhosis contagious?

The most concerning issue for people suffering from cirrhosis is whether cirrhosis is contagious. To help you understand this issue, the following article will tell you whether cirrhosis is contagious. I hope that the following article can effectively resolve the doubts in everyone’s mind, and that you can look at friends with cirrhosis with a kinder eye. I also hope that patients can treat the disease with a healthy attitude.

Cirrhosis is a diffuse damage to the liver caused by various reasons, with degeneration and necrosis of the liver cell substance, hyperplasia of connective tissue, and progressive, fibrous pathological changes. Is cirrhosis contagious? It depends on the cause of the cirrhosis. If it is post-hepatitis cirrhosis, such as cirrhosis caused by hepatitis B or hepatitis C, it is contagious to a certain extent.

At this time, the main transmission routes of cirrhosis are blood, vertical transmission from mother to child, close contact transmission, and medical transmission; if it is caused by non-hepatitis viruses such as alcoholic cirrhosis, fatty cirrhosis, and drug-induced cirrhosis, it is not contagious, and their family members do not need to worry about the infectious problem.

Although viral hepatitis is contagious, cirrhosis is a disease of the liver, so the contagiousness of patients with cirrhosis cannot be generalized. From the "trilogy" of hepatitis B, we can see that cirrhosis is actually quite serious, and patients need treatment as soon as possible to avoid worsening of the disease.

Cirrhosis itself is not contagious. If it is contagious, it is caused by the hepatitis virus of post-hepatitis cirrhosis. Specifically, whether cirrhosis is contagious is related to the cause of the disease and cannot be generalized.

Cirrhosis is a liver disease caused by different reasons, so cirrhosis itself is not contagious. If cirrhosis develops from long-term hepatitis B virus carriers or chronic hepatitis B patients, it can be said that the patient himself is contagious. One point that needs to be emphasized is that the patient's contagiousness is not caused by cirrhosis itself, but by the hepatitis B virus, so cirrhosis cannot be considered contagious.

More and more people are suffering from cirrhosis of the liver, and the incidence of the disease is showing an increasing trend. To help everyone understand the relevant knowledge of cirrhosis of the liver, we have made relevant introductions for everyone in the above content. Is cirrhosis of the liver contagious in society now? I believe that after reading the above content, everyone has a relatively basic understanding of the relevant information. I hope everyone can look at the disease with a correct attitude.