Patient's question:
I am a carrier of the hepatitis B virus, also known as the "big three positive" condition mentioned by others. I only found out about this issue during a health check-up organized by my middle school. After that, I had irregular liver function tests every year, and everything has been fine so far. Now that I am pregnant, I don't know if I will be able to breastfeed my baby in the future.Doctor's answer:
If a new mother experiences nipple cracks again, she should be strictly prohibited from breastfeeding. Additionally, if a new mother who carries the hepatitis B virus is still worried about her virus infecting her child, she can opt to express her milk into a bottle and feed the child with the bottle. Blindly abandoning breastfeeding is, however, a wrong approach. Even if a hepatitis B carrier, as long as her hepatitis B DNA test results are negative and her liver function is normal, it proves that the virus is not very active in her body. At this time, testing her breast milk cannot detect the presence of hepatitis B virus, so new mothers who meet these conditions can rest assured to breastfeed their children.