Scared

[Lisa_1980]

Hi my sisters partner of 10 years has just been diagnosed hep b positive. My sisters children have now started an accelerated hbv vaccine course and will get antibodies checked once completed.   We are terrified he may have already unknowingly passed it on to children through household contact.  So just after a bit of advice , not looking for scaremongering or anything like that , we are scared enough!,  just wanting to know if anyone else has experienced anything similar and what the outcome was etc ... we have read soo many horror stories online...their Dr doesnt seem to know a lot about the disease either and keeps mixing it up with Hcv.  Dr said very low risk to children but that seems to be contradicted online. Oh my sister is already vaccinated as she works in healthcare.
We live in UK
Sisters partner us mixed race , father Bangladesh mother British.  Hes lived in UK all his life.  Us hbeag neg with high DNA due to mutations . .help

[Tom2013]

Did your sister get vaccinated after knowing that her husband was hep b positive or she got vaccinated before getting married(without knowing that her husband was hep b carrier) ?

[Lisa_1980]

Hi all thanks for your response
My sister was vaccinated through work a long time before she met her partner .  UK have only recently started adding hep b to vaccine programme for babies.... my sister had to literally go to Drs and demand her children get vaccinated once partner was diagnosed as it was not offered!!

[imran4535]

I don't think its that easy to pass through household contact. For children they usually get it from their mother. Have them all get the the full hepatitis B panel, and also check HBVDNA. Sometimes HBV can be occult, meaning hidden, but extremely low chances in your sisters case. Your sister is lucky she has someone like you helping her.

[Kazfiz]

Hi I'm from the UK too and your right they know little about hepatitis b and are only interested in hep C .  I know household contacts are listed as  being high risk . I'm not sure though.
I suppose it depends on lots of factors . Route of transmission etc , .I guess if they are children then they wont have shared razors,  and hopefully not toothbrushes .  I'm not sure what the risk factor is for bed linen or bath towels,  one thing my husband hep dr told him is its definitely not transmitted via saliva , he said no matter what the viral load is unless its mixed with blood .
Don't know what the people on here think about that though ... The UK are known for scaremongering also on NHS websites etc , so if your sister is trawling the internet then she will probably be doing more harm than good.
Good luck with all the tests .