Just on July 27, one day before World Hepatitis Day, WHO officials released a message reporting the current situation of chronic hepatitis in China:
About 400,000 people in China die of hepatitis-related complications every year.
It is estimated that there are currently 90 million patients with chronic hepatitis B in China, of whom 28 million need treatment and 7 million need emergency treatment due to the risk of serious liver diseases and cancer.
Hepatitis B is a common disease in many Asian and African countries. Including our country, but most of the infected people do not know their own illness, so that the WHO’s general draft calls it a “silent epidemic situation”. Starting from this week, the column “Protecting Liver Well” will share the content of viral hepatitis with everyone for several consecutive issues, so that readers and friends can know more and have less misunderstanding.
Hepatitis B is easy to infect?
Hepatitis B, abbreviated as hepatitis B, is an infectious disease caused by hepatitis B virus infection.
Its infectious ability is not as strong as everyone thinks.
There are three main modes of transmission of hepatitis B: blood transmission, vertical transmission of mother and infant and sexual contact. However, daily work, hugging, sharing meals and living in dormitories generally do not infect hepatitis B..
If you are infected with the virus, you will definitely get sick?
No.
More than 90% of adults can remove hepatitis B virus through their mature immune system after infection. They may have recovered before they are aware of it, and thus have obtained protective antibodies.
In fact, the most harmful by hepatitis B virus is infants with incomplete immune system. Once infants are infected with hepatitis B virus, it is easy to become chronic, and then they may suddenly suffer from the disease or carry it for life.
More than half of the patients with chronic hepatitis B in our country are infected by mother-to-child transmission.
The promotion of hepatitis B immunization in the past few decades has reduced chronic hepatitis B infection among children and adolescents by 97%. This is the great significance of timely injection of hepatitis B vaccine.
At the same time, even couples suffering from hepatitis B can have their own healthy babies by blocking the treatment of mother-to-child transmission.
Is it hopeless to diagnose hepatitis B?
90 million patients with chronic hepatitis B! Did you get a fright?
Of these, 28 million need treatment. What is going on?
Explain. Here, 90 million, refers to the number of people who have found hepatitis B surface antigen positive for more than half a year. Some of them, do not have the symptoms of hepatitis, liver function examination is also normal, it is likely that they have been living safely, do not suffer from the disease, and do not need to take medicine for treatment. Of course, these people are infectious.
Some of them will have active hepatitis, even liver cirrhosis and liver cancer. This is the 28 million that need treatment.
The reason why hepatitis B carriers are required to have regular reexamination is to find this trend in time. Once through liver function, imaging or biopsy, it is found that there is progressive damage to the liver, which needs to be handled in time to prevent the pathological changes from aggravating unconsciously.
Correct handling
After the diagnosis of hepatitis B, it is inappropriate to be too nervous and blindly optimistic. Clinically, it is really regrettable to see hepatitis B patients in constant panic and eager to eat all the drugs in the world. In the end, they exhausted their liver because they metabolized too many [drugs].
For people infected with hepatitis B virus, there are unified standards for whether to use drugs and how to use drugs. Doctors will decide the follow-up treatment plan according to the indicators of various examination results. Don’t blindly use drugs.
Of course, we can’t let it go, insist on regular review, follow the doctor’s treatment advice, improve the living habits of the change of living habits, the medication of the drug.
At present, for antiviral treatment of chronic hepatitis B, only interferon and nucleoside drugs are approved by the management department, with evidence-based medical evidence, and other unconfirmed [secret recipes]. Be cautious and remember!
The best way to deal with hepatitis B is what?
Prevention.
Vaccination with hepatitis B vaccine is the cheapest and most effective method, and after the vaccination is completed, review the amount of protective antibody produced, and continue replanting if necessary.
Hepatitis B is not a horrible plague, it is regarded as a common disease. Most of the time normal work, study and even fertility will not be affected. We should treat this disease and hepatitis B patients correctly, face it scientifically, and strive to remove the hat of [hepatitis B country] as soon as possible.