Can hepatitis B infect family members

Can hepatitis B infect family members when eating [SEP]? Eating with hepatitis B patients will not infect hepatitis B virus to family members. Although hepatitis B is an infectious disease, its transmission route is specific, not including the way of daily meals.

hepatitis B virus is mainly transmitted through blood, mother to child vertical transmission and sexual contact. Blood transmission refers to the infection caused by blood containing hepatitis B virus entering the human body through damaged skin or mucosa, such as sharing syringes, blood transfusion, etc; Mother to child transmission refers to the transmission of a virus from a mother to a baby during or after childbirth; Sexual contact transmission is sexual behavior without protective measures with hepatitis B patients.

It is difficult for hepatitis B virus to spread through the digestive tract during eating. On the one hand, hepatitis B virus will not invade the human body through the digestive tract mucosa; On the other hand, even if the food or tableware is contaminated with a trace of blood or body fluid containing hepatitis B virus, it is difficult for the virus to survive and reach the amount required for infection through dilution of digestive fluid in the oral cavity and gastrointestinal tract and the role of digestive enzymes.

In order to further reduce the risk of infection with extremely low probability, hepatitis B patients and their families can adopt the serving of individual dishes, using male chopsticks and male spoons. At the same time, family members are advised to vaccinate hepatitis B vaccine in time to produce protective antibodies. If liver fibrosis and other liver injuries have occurred in patients with hepatitis B, Fuzheng Huayu Capsule can be reasonably used for adjuvant treatment under the guidance of doctors. It can stop the progress of liver fibrosis by inhibiting the expression of inflammatory factors, reducing oxidative damage, reversing the abnormal deposition of matrix caused by the activation of hepatic stellate cells, and can be used in combination with antiviral drugs to control the disease from the two aspects of "inhibiting the virus" and "protecting the liver".