Showing posts with label hepatitis B. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hepatitis B. Show all posts

Friday, October 5, 2018

What are the treatments for hepatitis B?

What are the treatments for hepatitis B?
What are the treatments for hepatitis B?
The treatment of hepatitis B mainly includes antiviral replication, improving immune function, protecting liver cells, promoting liver cell regeneration, and comprehensive treatments such as traditional Chinese medicine treatment, basic treatment and psychotherapy. Due to the easy recurrence of the disease and the persistent positive HBV replication index, the following methods can be used according to the situation:

Antiviral therapy
Antiviral therapy is an important measure for chronic HBV infection and persistently positive viral replication markers. At present, antiviral drugs are not very satisfactory. After application, HBV replication can be temporarily inhibited. After the drug is stopped, the inhibition disappears, and the original suppressed index returns to the original level. Some drugs work slower and take longer to see the effect. Because of the limited efficacy of antiviral drugs, and only when the virus replication is active, it is effective, so in recent years, the treatment of chronic hepatitis B tends to be combined to improve the efficacy.

What are the routes of transmission of hepatitis B?

What are the routes of transmission of hepatitis B?
What are the routes of transmission of hepatitis B?
1. By blood: such as the input of infected whole blood, plasma, serum or other blood products, or other blood-borne injections, so that there are unsterilized instruments beauty, wearing earrings, tattoos, etc., or shared shaving Hygiene products such as knives and toothbrushes.

2. Fetal transmission: such as pregnant women with drugs through the birth canal for vertical transmission of the newborn; pregnant women with hepatitis in the late pregnancy to the fetus, etc., in recent years have taken appropriate preventive measures, greatly reducing the probability of transmission of this link .

3. Iatrogenic transmission: filling teeth, shaving, pedicure, medical equipment such as needles, dental equipment, endoscopy, etc. after being contaminated by hepatitis B virus, disinfection is not thorough or improper treatment, can cause spread.

4. Sexual contact transmission: Intimate sexual intercourse between sexual promiscuity, homosexuality and heterosexuality is an important way to spread hepatitis B virus.

5. liver, kidney and other organ transplantation, the probability of infection with hepatitis B virus is also relatively high.