Can hepatitis B virus carriers have children?

What is a hepatitis B virus carrier? I believe everyone should have an intuitive understanding. That is, being infected with the hepatitis B virus. Although being a hepatitis B virus carrier, it is also contagious. Can women infected with the hepatitis B virus become pregnant and have children? Will it be transmitted to the next generation? Let's take a look.

1. Experts point out that whether a hepatitis B virus carrier can become pregnant and have a child depends on the patient's own situation, and the right time should be chosen to have a child, otherwise it is easy to cause infection in the baby and aggravate the condition of the pregnant hepatitis B virus carrier.

Experts point out that whether a hepatitis B virus carrier can get pregnant and have a child depends on the patient's own situation

2. If a woman is found to be a carrier of hepatitis B virus after pregnancy, such as abnormal liver function and/or HBV-DNA positive, she should consider terminating the pregnancy and having a child after recovery to avoid greater risks to both the pregnant woman and the child.

If the liver function is normal, you can consider continuing the pregnancy, but if the HBV-DNA is positive, there will be a higher risk of transmission to the child.

3. If one or both spouses are carriers of hepatitis B virus, HBV-DNA is positive or liver function is abnormal, it means that the virus is replicating actively, the disease is in the active stage, and it is highly contagious. In this case, pregnancy is not suitable.

Especially when liver function is abnormal, it may pose a life-threatening risk to pregnant women in the middle and late stages of pregnancy or during childbirth. Therefore, those with abnormal liver function must be treated to normalize their liver function and consider pregnancy only after HBV-DNA turns negative.

4. When the man is a virus carrier, if his liver function is normal and HBV-DNA is negative, the woman should consider pregnancy only after he has been vaccinated with hepatitis B vaccine and has developed effective resistance.

For the health of both parties, if the woman is a carrier, the man should also be vaccinated with hepatitis B vaccine to avoid infection.