Will hepatitis be passed on to the next generation?

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Hepatitis is a serious disease, can threaten the lives of patients, some treatment is not timely can also develop into liver cancer, so for patients with hepatitis, must be treated in time, and usually we should pay attention to do a good job of protection. The occurrence of liver disease has "family aggregation phenomenon", but in fact there are many kinds of liver diseases, and many people know that some hepatitis can be transmitted, such as viral hepatitis. So will hepatitis be passed on to the next generation? Let's get to know.

Will hepatitis be passed on to the next generation?

There are many kinds of hepatitis. Generally speaking, there are two kinds. One is infectious, and the other is hereditary. If it belongs to hereditary hepatitis, it may be passed on to the next generation. Therefore, patients with this kind of hepatitis should pay attention to it.

Hereditary hepatitis: also known as inherited metabolic liver disease. This kind of hepatitis disease can be manifested as chronic hepatitis, and cirrhosis, but the real development of liver cancer cases are rare. The common diseases include copper metabolism, iron metabolism, carbohydrate metabolism, lipid metabolism, protein metabolism and amino acid metabolism.

Infectious hepatitis: all viral hepatitis is infectious, but some of its ways of transmission will be slightly different, the most common is hepatitis B, its incidence has family aggregation phenomenon, great harm. In our country, most of the primary liver cancer is from hepatitis B virus or hepatitis C virus infection. Although hepatitis B and C are not hereditary diseases, but they have family aggregation phenomenon, because it can be transmitted through mother to child transmission and close contact within the family, so it is easy to be infected with hepatitis B without paying attention to prevention.

matters needing attention

According to the above introduction, there are many kinds of hepatitis, some will be inherited, some will not, but will be infectious. If there is hereditary liver disease in the family, we should pay attention to it. We should regularly check the liver function, so as to understand the situation and deal with it in time, so as to avoid suffering from liver disease due to heredity, which is harmful to health. And there is no hereditary liver disease should also pay attention to avoid infection, in order to prevent family aggregation phenomenon.