Contents:
- Medical Video: 9 Ways to Handle A Cold And Distant Spouse
- What is hepatitis?
- The way the wife supports her husband who has hepatitis
- 1. Open minded and supportive
- 2. Learn about hepatitis
- 3. Help find emotional support
- 4. Pay attention to his lifestyle
Medical Video: 9 Ways to Handle A Cold And Distant Spouse
Living with hepatitis can be a challenge for anyone, including your husband. He can suffer from the disease itself, treatment, and side effects and feelings of fear and anxiety. With the support of the wife, the husband will feel very helpful and tend to be more able to cope with stress. Here's how to help a husband who has hepatitis.
What is hepatitis?
Hepatitis is an inflammation of the liver. The causes can be from drugs, alcohol abuse, certain medical conditions, or hepatitis viruses. However, most cases of hepatitis are caused by viruses. The most common forms are hepatitis A, B, and C. If not treated, hepatitis can develop into fibrosis (scarring), cirrhosis or liver cancer.
Hepatitis patients may not be aware of their disease during the first few weeks of infection because hepatitis does not cause symptoms. This period is defined as the acute phase. However, when the disease develops, patients can experience fatigue, nausea, poor appetite, abdominal pain, mild fever, or yellowing of the skin or eyes (jaundice) in hepatitis types A, B, and C. Once hepatitis B and C develop chronic, patients may not know that they suffer from this disease because of the absence of symptoms for years. Unfortunately, when the patient's body finally shows signs of this disease, their heart may have been damaged.
The way the wife supports her husband who has hepatitis
1. Open minded and supportive
It will be painful for your husband if you try to give an opinion or assess his illness and feelings. If your husband wants to share about his experience, you must respect his choice and listen to it, and reflect on him as much as possible. Tell your husband that you are always willing to listen to what he wants to say. In addition, you must provide emotional support to your husband. You can help enough by saying that you understand, that you will always be for him, and then ask him what you can do to help him. This is quite helpful when your husband needs support.
2. Learn about hepatitis
Hepatitis is a complex disease. Therefore, you need to have basic knowledge about it if you want to support your husband who is sick with hepatitis. If you don't learn about this disease, understanding your husband's care and treatment can be difficult for you. In addition, you will be unprepared to advise or discuss the best health decisions with your husband. You must equip yourself with knowledge about how hepatitis can occur, what causes it, how to treat it, ... anything you think is important to support your husband.
3. Help find emotional support
If your husband cannot control his emotions, you can consider a support group for people with hepatitis, either online or face to face. If your husband is too anxious or depressed to do daily activities, you should take him to mental health care and see a therapist or doctor.
4. Pay attention to his lifestyle
Supporting your husband means you also have to pay attention to your habits and lifestyle. You must prevent him from drinking alcohol and being overweight, which can worsen liver disease. You have to make a plan to help him lead a healthy life. For example, you can suggest eating healthy foods and exercising together to support your husband.
Supporting someone suffering from a severe illness is never easy, especially if the person is your husband who has hepatitis. His illness not only puts pressure on him but also you as a supporter. If you feel that you cannot support your husband who is a sufferer of hepatitis, ask for help from your husband's doctor.
Hello Health Group does not provide medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.
