Hepatitis%20b Patient Education
Patient Education
Hepatitis D
Partner Notification
- Partner notification for at-risk contacts
Patient Education
- Provide the patient with a detailed explanation of his condition
- Emphasize the disease’s long-term implications (eg long-term medical therapy, continuous monitoring) for their and their partners’ health
- Provide clear, accurate, written information
- Advise patients to avoid unprotected sexual intercourse
Acute Hepatitis B
Partner Notification
- Partner notification for at-risk contacts
- Contact tracing should include any sexual contact (penetrative vaginal or anal or oral/anal) or needle-sharing partners within 2 weeks before onset of jaundice until the patient becomes negative for HBsAg
- All non-immune sexual and household contacts must be vaccinated
Patient Education
- Provide the patients with a detailed explanation of their condition
- Emphasize the disease’s long-term implications for their and their partners’ health
- Provide clear, accurate, written information
- Advise patients to avoid unprotected sexual intercourse, emphasize condom use
- Screen for other sexually-transmitted diseases in cases of sexually acquired hepatitis or if otherwise appropriate
Chronic Hepatitis B
Partner Notification
- Trace contacts as far back as any episode of jaundice or to the time when infection is thought to have been acquired
- All non-immune sexual and household contacts must be vaccinated
Patient Education
- Provide the patient with a detailed explanation of his condition
- Emphasize the disease’s long-term implications (eg long-term medical therapy, continuous monitoring) for their and their partners’ health
- Provide clear, accurate, written information
- Abstinence or limited use of alcohol to prevent further liver injury
- Counseling regarding prevention of transmission of HBV
- Sexual transmission: Protected sexual intercourse ie condom use
- Perinatal transmission: Hepatitis B immune globulin (HBIg) and hepatitis B vaccine at delivery for babies of HBV-infected mothers
- Inadvertent transmission via environmental contamination from a blood spill