Generally speaking, elderly people with hepatitis B can bring up their children because hepatitis B is not contagious in general daily contact.
Hepatitis B is mainly transmitted through blood, mother-to-child and sexual contact, and the most common way in China is mother-to-child transmission, in which mothers suffering from hepatitis B will transmit the virus to the fetus when they are pregnant and give birth.
To deal with this situation, China has already taken measures to cope with it, such as free vaccination for newborns against hepatitis B. However, regardless of whether family members have hepatitis B or not. However, newborns need to be vaccinated against hepatitis B regardless of whether or not there is a history of hepatitis B in the family.
Generally, hepatitis B is not transmitted through normal contact in daily life, but it is still important to pay attention to the way the elderly feed their children, as some of them are used to chewing food in their mouths and then feeding their babies mouth-to-mouth, which is not only unhygienic, but also prone to transmitting the virus to young children.