Risk of liver cirrhosis infection

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My uncle is suffering from liver cirrhosis, which has been a disease for two years. In daily life, he has been alleviated by drugs. I will tell you about the probability of liver cirrhosis infection.

Risk of liver cirrhosis infection

If the cause of liver cirrhosis is post hepatitis cirrhosis, such as liver cirrhosis caused by hepatitis B and hepatitis C, it will be infectious to a certain extent. The main routes of transmission are blood, mother to child vertical transmission, close contact transmission and iatrogenic transmission; If alcoholic liver cirrhosis, fatty liver cirrhosis, drug-induced liver cirrhosis and other non hepatitis virus caused, is not infectious, their families may not have to worry about infectious problems, as far as possible to reduce the mental burden and psychological pressure of patients, the rehabilitation of the disease is very helpful. Therefore, to determine whether cirrhosis is infectious depends on the situation, not all cirrhosis are infectious or non infectious.

Although the patients with liver cirrhosis after viral hepatitis have certain infectivity (hepatitis infection), in fact, as long as they pay more attention to life and avoid causing blood contact with patients, they will not be infected.

Family members of patients can check five items of hepatitis B, need to be vaccinated with hepatitis B vaccine, according to the course of treatment for timely immune prevention, if there are antibodies in the body, the general daily contact will not be infected, so the family members of liver cirrhosis should relax, don't always think about infection, take good care of the patient is the most important. A comfortable and optimistic environment for themselves and patients is good for each other.

matters needing attention

In the daily life of patients with liver cirrhosis, we should timely correct the bad living habits, and avoid contact with spicy food in diet. The first taboo for patients with liver cirrhosis is drinking alcohol. Drinking alcohol, especially strong liquor, can increase the burden on the liver and lead to abnormal liver function. The condition of patients with liver cirrhosis is aggravating, and it is easy to cause upper gastrointestinal bleeding. All previous therapeutic effects may become useless.