We know that hepatitis B is a contagious disease, which has caused a lot of people to group discrimination against hepatitis B patients, hepatitis B is therefore called “China’s first disease”, and the discrimination against hepatitis B patients, mainly because people have various misconceptions about hepatitis B. Therefore, the elimination of hepatitis B discrimination is the common goal of each of us. The only way our society will be more harmonious, but also hepatitis B patients do not have to worry about the treatment, so what misconceptions exist in the lives of people? An Jingjun, Infectious Diseases Department, Zhengzhou University First Affiliated Hospital
One, hepatitis B virus carriers can not marry and give birth: a hospital has done a survey, 263 couples, one party infected with hepatitis B virus before marriage, the other party was also infected 5 years after marriage less than 6%. The risk of hepatitis B virus infection is inversely proportional to age, with newborns and infants being the most susceptible, while most adults can rely on their own immunity to keep the virus out of their bodies, with the chance of infection being only 2%. After regular hospital treatment, get clinical cure, the disease is stable for more than a year, no discomfort, liver function is always normal, hepatitis B patients can get married and have children, and scientific vaccination can make more than 95% of newborns from the vertical transmission of hepatitis B parents.
Second, hepatitis B can be transmitted through diet: a survey conducted on a sample of 808 people showed that 40.5% could not answer with certainty what hepatitis B is. When asked about how to get infected, the common sense deficiency was even more obvious, with 72.5% of people answering incorrectly. It is believed that society has a blind bias along the understanding of hepatitis B virus carriers and patients, and is overly fearful of the contagiousness of hepatitis B. In fact, in China, the main way of hepatitis B transmission is vertical transmission from mother to child, which accounts for more than 50%; another way is blood transmission of medical origin, such as incomplete sterilization during injection, acupuncture and dental inlay, which accounts for 30%-40%; other cases, such as sexual contact, close living contact, mosquito bites, etc., the reasons are not quite clear. Hepatitis B is not transmitted through the air, digestive tract or diet.
Third, hepatitis B is easy to drug resistance, and can not be cured, give up treatment: in order to stop the hepatitis B virus rampant in the body, the most effective way is to carry out antiviral treatment, but the problem of hepatitis B drug resistance in the clinic to bring patients a great deal of trouble. In China, there are at least 100,000 patients who have developed drug resistance. Many patients are so afraid of drug resistance that they simply do not treat the disease, leading to further deterioration.