Can people with hepatitis B have children?

Patient's question:

I am an HBV patient, and I got divorced from my husband a year ago. I have been too afraid to have children, worried about passing it on to my child. Last time, I had a thorough check-up at the Affiliated Yunnan Xinhua Hospital of the Yunnan Provincial Liver Disease Research Institute. The doctor said my liver function is normal, but can a HBV patient get pregnant?

Doctor's answer:

According to your description, you are a patient with chronic hepatitis B and the "" condition. You don't need to worry—you can give birth to a healthy baby. You can start by getting a health check-up to carefully examine how normal your liver function is and how high the hepatitis B virus load is? By some exponent? A color ultrasound can check for liver fibrosis. If your liver function is normal and there is no fibrosis, but the virus load is greater than 10 to the 6th power, you will need to undergo maternal-fetal transmission prevention treatment under the guidance of a doctor at 28 weeks of pregnancy. When the baby is born, they should receive high-efficiency immune globulin and the hepatitis B vaccine. There are several treatment methods for hepatitis B, but since the condition of each patient is different, the diagnostic methods used will also vary. Therefore, it is necessary for the patient to be diagnosed as soon as possible so that the correct treatment can be administered.

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