LuckCong's Health Blog

Following the 2006 Andy Lau as the Chinese Foundation for Hepatitis B prevention and control publicity ambassador, Andy Lau also recently shot public service announcements, write "Baby darling," the promotion of performing arts at the same time focus on the promotion of social care and hepatitis B patients. With the heat away gradually, is about to usher in another high school and employment. Some of us, or our children, friends, but also because of illness and confusion. We believe that understanding can only understand in order to allow the community more harmonious big family happy. Here, we are invited to the Shanghai Ruijin Hospital Director Professor Xie Qing Chuan Ranke and the community together to talk science. According to statistics, China's hepatitis B virus, about 120,000,000 people living with chronic hepatitis B patients about 30,000,000 cases each year, about 350,000 patients die of HBV-related chronic diseases, how to effectively reduce the infection rate of hepatitis B virus, at the same time Further improve the treatment of patients with hepatitis B is a topic of great concern, and the scientific understanding of the hepatitis B virus-related knowledge to solve this problem is a prerequisite. Immune a seesaw battle between the virus and When the hepatitis B virus into the human body, the hepatitis B virus, only to the liver, "Qingyouduzhong" medically known as the tropic of the liver virus, the virus through our circulatory system to quickly gather the liver, liver cells into the substantial copying. Typically, the foreign substances such as viruses and bacteria invasion, the body's immune system will immediately begin just outside of biological warfare, hoping to completely remove the invaders. In the adult period, this mechanism is very sound, even if infected with the hepatitis B virus, most people can rely on the immune system and clear the virus, which was recovered. However, in infants and young children during the course of this encounter will be a big problem. As the host immune newborn is not fully developed, easily mistaken for the hepatitis B virus itself, and thus the immune system can not identify and clear the hepatitis B virus and human immunodeficiency virus in a state of relative calm, no disease outbreak, that is, in a medical "immune Period of tolerance. " With the host immune system constantly increased, the body's immune system gradually began to identify hepatitis B virus and its clearance to enter medical "removal of the immune period." This time the virus replication and host immune confrontation between the on-going process. If the host can not be completely immune powerful enough to control the virus, the virus continued for 6 months who have not yet been cleared for the development of chronic hepatitis B virus infection. Patients can not fully suppress the host immune virus replication, the virus removal process as a see-saw in the war, continuing the see-saw process leading to damage to liver cells. As a result, for the treatment of hepatitis B patients to pay attention to not only inhibit virus replication, the need to regulate the immune host for the disease continued to ease. Correct understanding of the disease with a normal life Hepatitis B virus is the major route of transmission of blood and body fluids such as blood transfusions, surgery, injections, to share with teeth, such as razor may have come into contact with contaminated blood virus, so the current guidelines are recommended for high-risk groups should be vaccinated with hepatitis B vaccine In order to be effective against hepatitis B viruses. At the same time, countries have more stringent screening of blood donors, blood transfusion and blood products caused by the hepatitis B infection has also been a few. In China, hepatitis B transmission is the main way to mother to child transmission, that is, by the hepatitis B virus with the mother transmitted to their children, the process is usually due to contact with the birth mother's hepatitis B positive blood and body fluids due to . As the neonatal immune system is not yet mature, in the hepatitis B virus infection after the virus is difficult to remove, and thus suffer from chronic Hepatitis B high risk, usually as high as 90%; and adults infected with the hepatitis B virus, the immune system due to the body than Strong, and generally able to completely clear the virus, its chronic to the possibility of less than 10%. It should be noted that, as in patients with urine, feces, sweat, tears, the milk of hepatitis B virus were very low, so the day-to-day life or in the process of contact, such as shaking hands, hugging, sharing a dormitory, In a restaurant meal with shared bathrooms and no exposure to blood contact, not the transmission of hepatitis B virus. We need not refuse to hepatitis B patients at arm's length. At the same time, along with the development of medicine, a variety of new antiviral drugs used in clinical treatment, the effect has also made considerable progress in hepatitis B patients as long as the correct understanding of the disease, a doctor with the appropriate choice of anti-viral treatment, most of them can effectively control the disease Development of the normal work and life.