Can you drink alcohol with hepatitis B?

Hepatitis B patients can not drink alcohol, because 90% of the alcohol into the body through the liver decomposition and metabolism, if hepatitis B patients drink alcohol, it will aggravate the burden on the liver. Alcohol’s impact on the liver mainly has the following aspects: 1, direct or indirect damage to the liver, alcohol metabolism intermediate product of acetaldehyde can directly damage liver cells, the more you drink, the higher the content of acetaldehyde in the body, the more severe the damage to the liver. 2, inhibit liver cell regeneration, liver cells themselves have a strong regenerative capacity, but alcohol into the body can significantly inhibit the repair function of liver cells. 3, Affect the efficacy of antiviral drugs, alcohol can obviously inhibit the play of antiviral drugs, so that the therapeutic effect is greatly reduced. 4, affect the immune function, alcohol can reduce the body’s immune function, so that the body’s ability to clear the hepatitis B virus is weakened. Clinically, many patients with hepatitis B who drink alcohol will develop into cirrhosis or even liver cancer, so patients with hepatitis B should never drink alcohol.