Sex is an important part of a couple’s life, and it has been proven that the amount of energy a person puts into sex is equivalent to participating in a 100-meter sprint race. Such a large physical exertion is extremely unfavorable for patients with liver disease who need to rest. Chinese medicine believes that the kidney hides the essence, liver and kidney have the same origin, the liver is nourished by the kidney essence in order to work normally, the lack of kidney essence is the liver lost its nourishment, resulting in the lack of blood in the liver, which will aggravate the condition. So what should a liver disease patient pay attention to in terms of sexual life? Acute hepatitis During acute hepatitis, when alanine aminotransferase (ALT) is significantly elevated, generalized fatigue, jaundice and other symptoms are obvious, any sexual activity, including masturbation, should be prohibited. To avoid overwork and aggravation of the condition. At the same time, acute hepatitis or chronic hepatitis activity, liver disease patients with infectious, through sexual contact will make the sexual partner has the opportunity to infect hepatitis. When can we have sex? When acute hepatitis reaches clinical cure, chronic hepatitis basically reaches the standard of cure, the condition is stabilized for more than half a year can have sex; acute hepatitis clinical cure after 1 year of follow-up without abnormalities, chronic hepatitis observation for 2 years without abnormalities can be able to do their jobs, can have a normal sex life. Chronic hepatitis Chronic hepatitis, cirrhosis patients due to the impact of the disease, the general libido is relatively indifferent, at this time should not be reluctant to make things difficult, but should be in accordance with nature. When the liver disease is under control, the body’s sex hormone metabolism is adjusted and normalized, and sexual function can be improved accordingly. HBsAg carriers: can have a restrained sex life, consciously control the frequency of sexual life, but not indulgent, otherwise easy to cause liver disease outbreaks or aggravation. Sexual life frequency is generally 1-2 times a week for young people, middle-aged people every 1-2 weeks, 1-2 times a month in late middle age. However, it should be stopped during the period of poor liver function, especially when the transaminase is unstable or when there is a persistent elevation of jaundice. Alcoholic and fatty liver disease patients: most of them do not have obvious symptoms, half of them have discomfort in the liver area, abdominal distension, loss of appetite, impotence, menstrual disorders, breast development abnormalities, etc., and a few of them have mild abnormalities of liver function, so they do not have to abstain from sex at all, and they should abstain from it for a period of time temporarily when liver function is abnormal, and sex can be resumed when liver function recovers. Moderate sexual life can help relieve sexual tension and achieve a high degree of relaxation of the whole body and mind, and also help to consume excessive fat to reduce the accumulation of fat in the body, but also can play a role in weight loss and fat loss. Women of childbearing age For women of childbearing age, if they want to have sex during the period of liver disease, they must consider contraception, because pregnancy with disease is not conducive to eugenics, nor is it conducive to the recovery of the disease. So how should contraception be used? Avoid using contraceptives: we know that when liver dysfunction, the use of contraceptives will aggravate the burden on the liver, promote the deterioration of the disease, but also cause liver poisoning. Therefore, it is not advisable to use contraceptive pills for contraception when liver function is poor. It is not suitable to place birth control ring: poor liver function will reduce the body’s thrombin, coagulation dysfunction, which will easily cause bleeding. Placement of birth control ring will cause excessive menstruation or uterine bleeding. Therefore, women with liver dysfunction should not have an IUD placed. Women with liver disease should use condom, vaginal diaphragm and topical contraceptive film for contraception. If you are suffering from hepatitis B or C, using condoms can prevent the man from infecting the hepatitis virus due to the contact of vaginal secretions. Pregnant women Pregnant women are originally a high-risk group, when they suffer from liver disease, their sex life should pay special attention to moderation. Sexual life should be prohibited during the fluctuating stage of liver function, unstable serum ALT or jaundice. Sexual life should also be suspended during the recovery period of acute hepatitis and after the relative stabilization of chronic hepatitis and cirrhosis. Hepatitis B virus carriers alone should not indulge in sex either. If you feel tiredness, lumbago, fatigue, weakness, loss of appetite, etc. on the day following sexual intercourse, you should pay attention to the adjustment and suspend sexual life. Sex should be avoided as much as possible in the first and second trimesters of pregnancy, and should be absolutely prohibited after 36 weeks of pregnancy to prevent miscarriage, premature rupture of membranes and intrauterine infections. In addition, pay attention to the position of sexual intercourse, avoid the riding position and flexion position, and prevent the male genitals from penetrating too deeply. Husbands pay attention to slow movements, do not stimulate the wife’s nipples too much, avoid rabbit abdominal pressure, to reduce the amount of activity of pregnant women.