Understanding Hepatitis B to eliminate discrimination

The relevant departments of the state regulations: admission, recruitment and other medical examination items no longer include hepatitis B (hepatitis B) virus-related signs, although this provision to avoid hepatitis B discrimination has a certain positive effect, but, now there are still many people on the hepatitis B virus carriers or hepatitis B patients “to avoid”, and even the occurrence of college students because of unbearable all kinds of pressure and suicide. The incident of a college student who committed suicide due to various pressures, while deploring for the young girl of the flowering season, deeply to truly eliminate people’s discrimination against hepatitis B, the key is to understand hepatitis B, eliminate the fear of hepatitis B. At present, people’s fear of hepatitis B is mainly focused on two aspects: infection and consequences. It is undeniable that hepatitis B is a contagious disease and has a certain degree of contagiousness to the surrounding population, but the transmission of hepatitis B is not the same as what we usually call “disease from the mouth”, it is not transmitted through the digestive tract, let alone through the air, it is mainly through a variety of ways leading to blood transmission, that is, the blood with the hepatitis B virus must It is mainly transmitted by blood in various ways, that is, the blood with hepatitis B virus must enter the blood of another person who is not immune to the hepatitis B virus in order to form the infection, such as blood transfusion (which is now extremely rare), invasive operations using medical devices that have not been thoroughly sterilized, such as surgery, injections, dental treatment, etc., no hygienic conditions to protect the skin and mucous membrane damage, such as ear piercing, tattoos and some so-called cosmetic surgery and sharing razors, etc., while in China, the most common or through mother-to-child transmission. In the absence of damage to the skin and mucous membranes, there is no chance of transmission from general life contact, including handshaking, hugging, sharing office supplies and sharing restaurants, etc. A clear example is the survey conducted by the Shanghai Infectious Diseases Hospital in the 1980s, in which the hepatitis B surface antigen carriage rate of all hospital staff was the same as the overall carriage rate of the national population and did not increase due to long-term contact with hepatitis B patients. China’s guidelines for the prevention and treatment of chronic hepatitis B (2010 edition) clearly state that chronic HBV carriers and HBsAg carriers can work and study as usual, except for those who cannot donate blood, tissues and organs and engage in occupations or types of work that are explicitly regulated by the state. Therefore, it is totally unnecessary to turn away hepatitis B patients or virus carriers for fear of being infected. On the other hand, there are some misconceptions among many people that if you are infected with the hepatitis B virus, you will definitely develop the disease, and if you have hepatitis B, you cannot be treated, as if chronic hepatitis – cirrhosis – liver cancer is an iron rule. In fact, after the human body is infected with hepatitis B virus, due to the number of infected viruses, subtypes, age at the time of infection, the immune status of the body, etc. vary, the results can be completely different, some can be directly cleared by the body and gain immunity, some can occur once acute hepatitis (mostly seen in adult infection) and then clear the virus and gain immunity, of course some people, especially those infected during the perinatal period, can become Hepatitis B virus carriers, some of whom can become chronic hepatitis B patients, the latter can indeed cause varying degrees of damage to the human body, and can even develop into cirrhosis or liver cancer, so these patients should pay attention and need active treatment, and now due to the widespread use of effective antiviral drugs, most patients with slow hepatitis B can reach the point where the virus is permanently suppressed, liver function remains normal for a long time, and liver The pathological data shows that after long-term effective antiviral treatment, cirrhosis, especially early cirrhosis, can also be reversed, and a few people can also achieve the closest clinical cure of surface antigen transfer and surface antibody transfer, thus greatly reducing the incidence of cirrhosis and liver cancer. In short, hepatitis B can be prevented and treated, not as terrible as the legend, not to mention incurable, for hepatitis B patients or virus carriers, should be given more care and respect, so that they have a harmonious environment with the surrounding people, which is not only the need for social stability, for them may be a more important spiritual assistance than material assistance.