Patient's question:
I and my girlfriend had to live together due to work reasons, but we haven't slept together yet. Currently, we are eating dinner together and occasionally give each other warm kisses. A few days ago, she went for a medical check-up and was surprisingly found to have hepatitis B. While I was worried about her, I also felt a bit worried about myself. Can hepatitis B be transmitted through kissing?Doctor's answer:
It's not advisable to have sex. There are many different ways to express love, and expressing passion doesn't necessarily require having sex. Haha. ⑵ Having sex doesn't always lead to infection. I have too many case materials, and the rate of hepatitis B transmission between couples is actually very low. Why? The current trend in answers is: due to one party's long-term "low-dose" infection, the other party has developed auto-immunity and produced antibodies. ⑶ Use condoms as much as possible during sexual activity. When the other party becomes (a minor positive), you might not need to. After enduring this for two or three years, you'll develop auto-immunity. Blood dissemination and iatrogenic dissemination of hepatitis B virus primarily occurs in patients' blood, so blood dissemination is also an important route. For example: undergoing surgery or using blood products, blood dialysis.