Can chopsticks infect hepatitis B virus?

It is basically a rumor that chopsticks infect hepatitis B, so you can't believe it. The main modes of transmission of hepatitis B are blood transmission, mother-to-child transmission and "close contact" transmission, which has nothing to do with chopsticks.

Hepatitis B virus carriers are not patients, but hepatitis B surface antigen positive, accounting for about 70% ~ 80% of hepatitis B patients.

Hepatitis B is a disease mainly caused by hepatitis B virus. A large number of clinical studies have shown that general contact such as hugging and shaking hands will not lead to the spread of hepatitis B unless the internal and external wounds have extensive contact with hepatitis B virus. Under normal circumstances, people's oral mucosa is relatively complete, which prevents the possibility of hepatitis B virus infection from the mucosa. The transmission characteristics of hepatitis B have nothing to do with the digestive tract.

Modern society pays more attention to infectious diseases. It is a common phenomenon to inject hepatitis B vaccine. Hepatitis B is difficult to spread through general contact and food. The saliva of patients with hepatitis B contains a small amount of virus, which will be destroyed by the immune system. Unless you have a serious oral ulcer, you just use a chopstick used by a patient with severe oral ulcer caused by hepatitis B, and there is a possibility of infection in theory, but the possibility is too low, which is of little significance in real life.

For the problem of hepatitis B infection, we should start with the route of transmission to avoid the above misunderstandings and prejudices. According to clinical statistics, only 0.25% to 0.4% of hepatitis B virus carriers will develop into hepatitis B patients every year, so most hepatitis B virus carriers will not develop into hepatitis B patients.

In addition, some people will suffer from acute hepatitis in their lives, and many times they don't know it. Eventually, they will recover and get anti-HBV antibodies. Modern treatment of hepatitis B has also been able to delay the progress of the disease, reduce the number of viruses in body fluids, treat rationally, strictly monitor, and block mother-to-child transmission with drugs. Therefore, patients with hepatitis B can also be pregnant and have children, which has little impact on daily life.