Contents:
- Medical Video: How Do You Get Hepatitis B?
- Guidelines for preventing transmission of hepatitis at home
- 1. Invite any uninfected family member to vaccinate
- 2. Remind them to always wash their hands
- 3. Be careful with objects at home
- 4. Wise in making tattoos or body piercings
- 5. Pay attention to the food and drinks consumed by your family
- 6. Keep the house clean
Medical Video: How Do You Get Hepatitis B?
The hepatitis virus can be transmitted through blood contact with blood. That is, your family members can contract this disease if exposed to blood from one of the people infected with hepatitis. So if you want to prevent transmission of hepatitis in your family, take preventative steps to minimize virus contact. Here's how.
Guidelines for preventing transmission of hepatitis at home
1. Invite any uninfected family member to vaccinate
You can help your family avoid contracting the hepatitis A virus and hepatitis B virus with vaccines. Vaccines are a good way to prevent infection, but you should consult a doctor about this first. Your family members can be given a vaccine in several injections, or in combination vaccines.
Vaccines for hepatitis A and hepatitis B are believed to be very effective in preventing transmission of hepatitis. But unfortunately, there are no vaccines for hepatitis C, D, and E.
2. Remind them to always wash their hands
You and your family must make hand washing habits a life priority. You can remind them to wash their hands thoroughly from the bathroom, when changing diapers, and before preparing food. Warm water and soap are good combinations for the hands to kill bacteria and viruses. Tell the family to rub their hands for at least 10-15 seconds before rinsing.
3. Be careful with objects at home
The hepatitis virus can be transmitted through blood, which may be left behind on medical needles, pins, pins, and home shavers that have been used by hepatitis patients without their knowledge. If healthy family members use or are pierced by a needle infected with blood, they are susceptible to contracting hepatitis.That is why you and your family must be careful with these sharp objects.
Also try not to lend to each other toothbrushes with people at home. When a hepatitis patient brushes his teeth and there may be blood left in the brush from the bleeding gums, the next person who might use the toothbrush can subconsciously contract the virus from him. Therefore, give each family member each one a special toothbrush and do not unite the storage so that they are not mistaken when taking it.
4. Wise in making tattoos or body piercings
Also, if there is a member of your family who decides to make a tattoo or body piercing, suggest them to find information about a professional tattoo place / body piercing that can be trusted and licensed. Also make sure that the cleanliness and sterility of the facilities are well maintained.
5. Pay attention to the food and drinks consumed by your family
Just washing your hands before eating and after getting out of the bathroom is not enough. If food is prepared by hepatitis patients who are not careful in cleaning food, you and your family are still at risk of getting hepatitis.
In general, fresh fruit, sandwiches, salads, and other raw foods are more likely to be a source of the spread of hepatitis when compared to cooked foods. Seafood such as shellfish, mussels, oysters, and shrimp can be taken from contaminated water, so it would be better for you and your family to think twice before eating raw food.
Water can get your family infected if it doesn't come from a clean and fresh source. Remind your family to consume ice cubes only if you can be sure that the ice is frozen from bottled water.
6. Keep the house clean
If your home is not cleaned regularly, you and your family can be at high risk for hepatitis. To prevent transmission of hepatitis, your family must plan to clean the house every day, especially the surface at home that can be touched by infected blood or feces. You can use ¼ cup of bleach mixed in 3.8 liters of water to make sure everything is clean.
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