Four misconceptions that chronic hepatitis B patients should get out of

Chronic hepatitis B treatment has always been a hot topic of social concern. However, the reality is that many hepatitis B patients and their families hold wrong perceptions about the disease itself. For this reason, experts suggest that patients should have a comprehensive understanding of chronic hepatitis B and recognize treatment misconceptions, so as to “get out of the cognitive misconceptions and treat hepatitis B correctly” as early as possible. Misconception 1: Hearsay, self-initiated. Some hepatitis B patients are hearsay, biased, only believe in other people’s treatment experience, hear others say that this drug is good to use this drug, heard that this drug is bad to reject this drug. In fact, the effects and toxic side effects of drugs often vary from person to person, and patients should take their medication according to the course of treatment under the guidance of a senior doctor, and review and recheck regularly. Myth 2: Psychological burden is too heavy. Chronic hepatitis B patients eventually develop cirrhosis, liver cancer and other end-stage liver disease. This phenomenon makes many patients worried and depressed. In fact, chronic hepatitis B is only a minority of people who develop liver cancer. The development of hepatitis depends largely on the immune status of the individual, which in turn is closely related to the individual’s emotions. Excessive psychological burden will only affect the prognosis and will not be beneficial to the disease. Therefore, it is wise for hepatitis B patients to be confident, face the reality with optimism and actively cooperate with doctors in treatment. Misconception 3: Blindly avoiding food. The folk have always been sick to avoid the mouth of the saying, many hepatitis B patients listed a long “avoid food” list, but contrary to expectations, because they can not get nutrition, a few years down, resistance to decline, is not conducive to recovery from the disease. Some patients, in order to treat liver disease, “tonic” every day, the result is a serious fatty liver. These are the negative consequences of incorrect concepts. In fact, the diet of hepatitis B patients do not have too many special requirements, the basic principle is comprehensive nutrition, fruits, vegetables, meat, soy products are needed, but try to eat less spicy and stimulating and fried food. Myth 4: Only focus on reducing enzymes, not antiviral. The most fundamental cause of chronic hepatitis B is the hepatitis B virus, so the most fundamental treatment is antiviral therapy. However, survey data show that China’s 20 million to 30 million chronic hepatitis B patients, the initial treatment of less than 1/10 of the population to receive antiviral therapy; even in patients receiving antiviral therapy, there are as many as 63.2% of patients have interrupted their own treatment. Hepatoprotective and enzyme-lowering therapy can bring about remission for a certain period of time. However, this treatment regimen treats the symptoms but not the root cause, and transaminases are not the most reliable indicator of hepatitis B disease. If the disease is in the best antiviral treatment period, it should be actively treated with antiviral therapy.