Is ascites contagious?

Ascites is a very common disease in life. It is divided into many types, including hepatic ascites and gastric ascites. Many people think that hepatic ascites is contagious. In fact, this is a wrong view. Hepatic ascites itself is not contagious. Hepatic ascites is mainly caused by water accumulation due to weak liver function. If you want to avoid being infected, you can separate tableware from other people, which will avoid the breeding and spread of bacteria and viruses. Let me give you a detailed introduction below.

Ascites itself is not contagious. The key lies in the cause of the ascites.

Ascites is mainly a functional disease caused by decreased liver function. Due to the obstruction of the portal vein in patients with liver disease, the pressure in the hepatic lymph, hepatic vein, and peritoneal vein is too high, the plasma protein decreases, and the vascular osmotic pressure decreases, causing part of the plasma to seep into the abdominal cavity and become ascites.

Ascites itself is not contagious. However, if ascites develops from viral liver diseases such as hepatitis B or hepatitis C, then both hepatitis B and hepatitis C are contagious.

If you are not clear about the condition of the patient with ascites, share meals with the patient to prevent infection. Patients should consider ascites treatment with Chinese medicine as the main method and Western medicine as the auxiliary method as early as possible to relieve ascites and restore health

1. Vertical transmission from mother to child. It refers to the transmission of hepatitis B virus from a mother to her baby or fetus during pregnancy and delivery. If more than one sibling has hepatitis B, it is most likely transmitted in this way.

2. Transmission through blood. It is mainly transmitted through blood transfusion, injection with unclean syringes, or through medical, hairdressing and beauty equipment that has not been strictly disinfected.

3. Transmission through contact in daily life. Because people often have small skin or mucous membrane breaks in daily life, if they come into close contact with instruments, objects, banknotes, etc. that carry or are contaminated with the hepatitis B virus, the hepatitis B virus may enter the human body and cause infection.

4. Transmitted through sexual contact. Because they carry the hepatitis B virus, it is easy to transmit it to others through sexual intercourse, especially between couples, this type of transmission is very common. In addition, this infection also has a high incidence rate in other bad sexual behaviors. Therefore, hepatitis B is also a sexually transmitted disease.