B hepatitis: the repercussions on the setting

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The B hepatitis chronic key about 300 000 French. Very infectious, the virus can infect the near easily by manipulations of objects soiled by blood, the sexual relations... besides, this infection remains difficult to live for the patient and his setting.

Hepatitis chronic B has some repercussions on the setting because of it important contagiousness and its possible psychological reverberation. Vaccination, protected sexual intercourse, various protections and a possible support shrink can help to live better with.

B hepatitis: a risk important of viral contamination

Outside of the transmission risk to the baby at the time of the childbirth, the setting runs a real risk of contamination in life courante. Effectively, even though you are carrier chronic of the B hepatitis and asymptomatique, you can contaminate your setting by blood (objects of the bathroom for example) or by sexual way.

Besides, it is necessary to know that this virus (VHB) is very infectious, well more that the one of the C hepatitis or the AIDS. For example, it can have 10 or 100 billions of virus of the B hepatitis there by milliliter of blood of a patient carrier chronic of the B hepatitis! It is necessary to think of it and to take the necessary measures in order to avoid this transmission therefore.

Of the possible psychological repercussions

A chronic illness modifies the daily of the patients and therefore of their setting. Indeed, although hepatitis chronic B is often asymptomatique, she can be lived badly, would not be that that because of the possible complications or the necessity to take a treatment to the long course... This pain-being is going to weigh evidently on the patient, but also on his setting, domestic, friendly, in love or professional.

Otherwise the B hepatitis being part of the sexually transferable infections, the discovery of a sharp infection within a couple can incite to ask the questions on the fidelity and to cause, has minima, of tensions in the couple. Yet, the B hepatitis is discovered in general to a belated stage, by chance (on the occasion of a balance of health for example). Therefore if your conjoint(e) is in this situation, before speculating on his disloyalty, inform yourselves on the seniority of his contamination, that is maybe superior than 20 years!

Finally very sensible the fear to transmit the virus to our near can have some repercussions on the character and the emotional life, capable to drag a fold or of the damaging sexual unrests for the couple in his whole.

B hepatitis: is it necessary to speak of it to his setting?

As we saw it this virus is very infectious. It is necessary to speak of it since the confirmation of the infection to your near family therefore imperatively (children, parents, brothers and sisters...), or in any case to people living under the same roof.

If this illness influences your state of mind or your daily, you can also speak of it to your (true) friends, would not be that that to explain them your present régime decrease.

As for your employer, you don't have legally to speak of it to him, except possibly if, unfortunately, your illness passed in active or complicated phase, what can require stops of work for exams or a hospitable treatment.

In this case, try to speak of it then with your physician, for example, a colleague of confidence to weigh pros and cons before speaking of it to your direction.

How to protect my setting of the VHB?

The main risk being the contamination, the first of the protections is the vaccine! The ideal is therefore to incite your near setting to make themselves to track down and to vaccinate in the pre-existing infection absence.

In the absence of vaccination, it is necessary to protect your near of possible contacts with your blood: avoid the sharing of objects of toilets (razors, toothbrushes, scissors, nail clippers, tweezers, jewelry of piercing, buckles of ears, etc.) and forbid the sharing or the manipulation of syringes and material of drug injection (spoon, cotton, straw, etc.). On the other hand, the VHB doesn't transmit itself by food, nor by water, nor by the common use of toilettes.

An infection that touches to the intimate

On the sexual plan, if you are in steady couple, the vaccination is well sensible the priority, so need (negative partner). If you don't live in couple and that your (your) partenaire(s) sexuel(s) is not (are not) vaccinated not against the B hepatitis (or if you are not informed), your most faithful ally is the condom, that you protègera also of the other sexually transferable infections.

The patients can also need a recourse to a psychological support in order to accept this illness better, important condition for the success of his hold in charge. This support can also allow them to pass difficult capes (intervening of a complication, change of treatment, etc.).

To protect his setting, domestic, friendly, professional from the infection by the virus of the B hepatitis is therefore simple to achieve. A vaccine or a condom used to good knowledge can certainly avoid better and better the propagation of an infection treated, but that can drag very serious complications all the same, don't hesitate then!

2009-03-04