Tuesday, August 24, 2010

How to avoid catching hepatitis from your spouse?

We just found out my husband has Hep C %26amp; A. How do I avoid catching both of these types of Hepatitis? How to avoid catching hepatitis from your spouse?
I doubt your husband has hep A, likely had it many years ago and now immune. HCV is chronic. You cannot get it sexually, there is no good evidence to such. He got it from IV drugs, or tattoos or snorting drugs, i.e. a parenteral route. You can get it from doing same or sharing razors or toothbrushes, i.e. anything that can let blood. You can be vaccinated against HAV and HBV, but no vaccine to HCV as yet.How to avoid catching hepatitis from your spouse?
Make sure you don't kiss him or have him cook for you with Hep A. It will resolve and he will not carry it chronically if he has a decent immune system. Once it resolves you can carry on your everyday lives normally. As far as Hep C is concerned, there is much debate on how it is caught. It is almost never caught sexually, but in regular partners it is seen being caught but that could be from sharing toothbrushes, razors, etc. You should start by taking a blood test and making sure you dont have it, once you find out you dont have it you can live pretty nromal lives, use condoms when having sex though again Hep C isn't carried in sexual fluids like semen, but if there is any blood contact from friction you can wind up catching it, so just use some precaustion, don't share razors, don't share toothbrushes, and don't touch his open sores or cuts. He probably carries C chronically as most Hep C patients do, only 5% of the Hep C cases resolve by themselves. Pam Anderson lives a normal life with it, she just has to manage it, like any other chronic condition, with liver scans, blood tests and medication. Good luck to both of you.

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