Patient's question:
My husband is a hepatitis B carrier with a 2-year medication history, during which the virus has been fluctuating. Now we want to have a child. Could you please advise if I can get pregnant and whether the medications he is taking will interfere with pregnancy?Doctor's answer:
If a hepatitis B patient has normal liver function, they are considered a hepatitis B carrier, which does not interfere with pregnancy. After the child is born, anesthetic hepatitis B vaccine can be administered within 24 hours to prevent infection. Your husband's condition is primarily due to not receiving proper treatment, which has led to prolonged non-healing. Therefore, it is essential to seek early and correct treatment to enable quick recovery, avoiding further deterioration or infecting others. With prolonged hepatitis B infection, it can progress along the path of "hepatitis B - liver cirrhosis - liver cancer," which is what we commonly refer to as the "third stage of hepatitis B." Hepatitis B is difficult to self-cure because the vast majority of hepatitis B patients have immune tolerance and do not produce an automatic immune response to the hepatitis B virus (HBV), leading to non-healing of the condition.