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I'm on dialysis for six years now,and positive for hepatitis b,I found out almost six years ago,and my father |
I found out I had this hepatitis b six years ago, and my father died with schrosis of the liver this year ,due to alcoholic history but he stop drinking for almost two decade, my question is did he catch the desease from me or may be I get the hepetitis since I was a child i'm forty years all now,and lastly,is pain reliver not good for older person to take,cause before he got very sick and attack by ascites he got pheumonia is the drugs he took may aggravate his illness,thank you for answers to my questions. You may have gotten infected at birth from your mother. Do you know if you mother ever had hepatitis B? You could have given it to your dad if you got infected first. Or your Dad could have gotten it from your mother as well. Or your Dad could have infected your mother first and then you got if from your mother. Any of you or all of you could have gotten it from another person who could have been the same person for each of you or a different person for each of you. To find out the answers a lot of questions and even blood tests would need to be researched. Hepatitis B can cause cirrhosis of the liver, but so can alcohol, so your Dad's liver failure that caused his death could have been from either the virus or his drinking. Hepatitis B is much more common among Asians, so I wonder if you are Asian. I think Filipino's are Asian. If you email me I could answer more of your questions. Source(s): Expert on hepatitis B Drugs can tend to do more harm i would recommend this website and become a member there may be a natural cure for what you have. May good health be in your near future: - http://www.naturalcures.com/ Hepatitis just means "inflammation of the liver." It can be caused by many things. Long-term abuse of alcohol can cause your liver to get inflamed." Hep. B is a virus. You go through the infection and it gets resolved if you live. You probably got very sick a while back. Hep C causes eventual liver cancer and a need for a transplant, but not in everyone who gets it, just some of the people. There is a treatment for Hep C, kind of like chemotherapy. Hep A you get from un-cooked or undercooked food handled by someone who had Hep A. That is a shorter infection and most people recover from it. Scirrosis of the liver means the liver kept getting damaged and so much of it turned to scar tissue that the person 's liver does not do the job anymore (which is mostly to act as a filter for chemicals in the blood, such as alcohol and drugs. I think Hep B is only transmitted through contact with blood products or body fluids. Unless you and your dad shared a needle of drugs, you probably did not give your father Hep B. Sometimes, even when a person quits drinking, they have done so much damage to the liver that it cannot recover. Sometimes the liver regenerates. Sorry about your dad. But you did not kill him. You do sound like you have some guilt and grief over his death, which is perfectly understandable. Have you tried grief counseling? Scirrosis is not contagious. The genetic predisposition for addiction (and alcoholism) can be passed down from one generation to the next. You probably ought to avoid drinking or using drugs, but you probably already know this. Being on dyalisis, you were probably told not to drink or use drugs already. But, even if you were not on dyalisis, you would have a 60% chance of developing addiction if you used alcohol or drugs. Pain relievers are all different. Some detoxify through the liver, some through the kidneys. They all have side effects. You should ask a pharmacist (or a doctor or nurse where you get the dyalisis stuff) if the particular one you are concerned about could make liver damage worse. By your own admission your father died of complications of hepatic cirrhosis as a result of alcohol abuse. This was a long time coming and although he stopped drinking, the damage was already done. I have no way of knowing how you yourself contracted the disease. Hepatitis B is transmitted by exposure to contaminated blood or blood products, sexual contact with an infected person and by use of contaminated needles. A severe Hep B infection can cause cirrhosis, so perhaps your father had Hep B. Pain relievers can be safely taken by older people in the appropriate dosages and according to the health of the liver. Nearly every medication available is metabolized by the liver. Your father's problems were due to the cirrhosis and whatever else he may have had, not pain meds. I doubt very much that pain medication aggrevated his condition but rather they helped alleviate some of his pain. I'm a nurse. |
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