Patient's question:
Living in a dorm with someone who has, what precautions should you take to ensure you don't get infected?Doctor's answer:
After reviewing your question, living in a dormitory with someone who has chronic hepatitis B (), generally speaking, individuals with chronic hepatitis B () can be infectious if their liver function changes, with liver function test results rising and an HBV-DNA test report showing positivity. The transmission routes include blood, sweat glands, semen, milk, and close contact. This is because individuals with chronic hepatitis B carry the hepatitis B virus in their bodies, and the virus replicates, making it highly infectious. The spread routes are blood transmission, mother-to-child transmission, sexual transmission, and close contact transmission. Therefore, daily life is generally not infected. Living together, eating meals, and drinking cups are not ways of infection. Mainly, attention should be paid to minimizing the sharing of personal items.