Every July 28 is World Hepatitis Day.
This holiday is primarily due to the birthday of the late Nobel Prize winner Baruch Bloomberg, who discovered the hepatitis B virus.
Through the establishment of this festival, the purpose is to popularize and pay attention to hepatitis disease to all groups in the whole society.
How common is hepatitis B?
According to a data released by the World Health Quality Officials, it reports the current status of chronic hepatitis in my country:
About 400,000 people die each year in my country related to hepatitis At that time, it was estimated that there were 70 million chronic hepatitis B patients in my country, of which 28 million needed treatment, and 7 million needed emergency treatment due to severe hepatitis disease and cancer risk.
Hepatitis B, is it easy to get infected?
Actually, hepatitis B is not as contagious as we think. At present, there are mainly blood transmission, vertical transmission from mother to child and sexual contact. Hepatitis B is not contagious.
Even if you do get the virus, you don’t necessarily get sick.
Over 90% of adults who are infected with hepatitis B virus often clear it through their own mature immune system. You may not realize that the immune system has cleared the virus and protected it Sexual antibodies.
What we really need to worry about is that infants and young children whose immune systems are not yet fully infected, once infected with hepatitis B virus, will easily become chronic, may develop sudden onset, or may carry it for life.
Can hepatitis B develop into liver cancer?
In fact, it is not. Due to the different immunity of each person, the probability of hepatitis B patients suffering from liver cancer is different.
Whether hepatitis B will develop into liver cancer is closely related to their own immunity. The hepatitis B virus in some hepatitis B patients will continue to attack the liver, which will cause abnormal normal cells and liver failure. work, causing chronic inflammation.
If the patient develops chronic inflammation without timely treatment, it is likely to cause liver fibrosis, liver cirrhosis and other diseases.
These diseases are all important factors causing liver cancer. Once it develops into hepatic cirrhosis and liver fibrosis, the probability of developing liver cancer will also increase.
Patients don’t need to worry too much, there are many ways to prevent hepatitis B from developing into liver cancer. Woolen cloth?
1. Avoid recurrent hepatitis
Most patients with hepatitis B have less obvious symptoms in the early stage, and many people ignore it, not enough Pay attention to.
It is very dangerous to our own body. Every disease is dangerous if we don’t pay attention to it and take timely treatment.
If hepatitis B is not taken seriously in the early stage, the disease will continue to worsen, resulting in repeated attacks of chronic hepatitis B. Repeated attacks of hepatitis B, liver cancer B virus will continue to replicate, infect, this situation will greatly increase the probability of liver cancer.
If you find out that you have hepatitis B, even if there is no obvious discomfort, you should go to the hospital for treatment in time to avoid recurrent hepatitis.
If the patient has not paid attention to it, when the body has obvious discomfort, it means that the condition has worsened.
2. Prevent physical fatigue
long-term Develop an irregular work and rest, the body is too tired, which is very detrimental to the human liver.
The liver function of hepatitis B itself is lower than that of normal people. If the body is too tired and there is not enough sleep time, then the liver will be more seriously affected, which may lead to cirrhosis or hepatitis.
Hepatitis B should develop a good routine in daily life, maintain adequate sleep time, and avoid excessive fatigue in the body.
3. Don’t drink
The liver is An important organ that metabolizes alcohol, if you drink excessively for a long time, the alcohol intake in the human body will seriously damage the liver.
If hepatitis B patients drink alcohol for a long time, it will cause secondary damage to the unhealthy liver. It is best for hepatitis B patients to avoid drinking in their daily life.
It should be known that more than half of the existing chronic hepatitis B patients in my country are caused by mother-to-child transmission infection.
Fortunately, in the past few decades, the country has successively promoted hepatitis B immunization , resulting in a 97% drop in the incidence of chronic hepatitis B infection in children.
Because of this plan, my country also took off the hat of “hepatitis B power” a few years ago.
At the same time, through the treatment of blocking mother-to-child transmission, even couples with hepatitis B can have healthy babies.
