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What medication can be taken for positive hepatitis A to turn negative?

Dec 03, 2025 Source: Cainiu Health
Dr. Huang Yuhong
Introduction
Treatment for patients with positive hepatitis A focuses on symptomatic support and promoting liver recovery. Medications such as diammonium glycyrrhizinate enteric-coated capsules, silybin capsules, reduced glutathione tablets, polyene phosphatidylcholine capsules, and Yinzhihuang oral liquid may be used to assist recovery. Hepatitis A treatment must be conducted under a doctor's guidance; patients should not adjust dosages or discontinue medication on their own.

For patients with positive hepatitis A, treatment mainly focuses on symptomatic support and promoting liver repair. Medications such as diammonium glycyrrhizinate enteric-coated capsules, silybin capsules, reduced glutathione tablets, polyene phosphatidylcholine capsules, and Yinzhihuang oral liquid may be used to assist recovery. Specific details are as follows:

1. Diammonium Glycyrrhizinate Enteric-Coated Capsules: These have anti-inflammatory effects and protect the liver cell membrane, helping reduce liver cell damage caused by the hepatitis A virus, lower transaminase levels, improve hepatic inflammatory status, and create favorable conditions for the body to eliminate the virus.

2. Silybin Capsules: The main ingredient is derived from milk thistle, which enhances the liver cells' ability to repair themselves, stabilizes the liver cell membrane, reduces hepatocyte necrosis, promotes recovery of liver function, assists the body in fighting the virus, and helps achieve negative conversion of test indicators.

3. Reduced Glutathione Tablets: As an important antioxidant in the body, it removes free radicals within liver cells, alleviates oxidative stress injury, promotes hepatocyte metabolism, aids in repairing damaged liver tissue, and supports the body in clearing the hepatitis A virus.

4. Polyene Phosphatidylcholine Capsules: These replenish phospholipids required by liver cells, promote regeneration and repair of hepatocytes, improve lipid metabolism in the liver, enhance liver resistance, help alleviate abnormal liver function caused by hepatitis A, and facilitate normalization of liver-related indicators.

5. Yinzhihuang Oral Liquid: This has effects of clearing heat, detoxifying, eliminating dampness, and reducing jaundice. It can relieve jaundice symptoms that may occur in hepatitis A patients, promote bile excretion, improve microcirculation in the liver, help restore normal liver function, and assist the body in achieving negative test results.

Medication for hepatitis A must be taken under a doctor's guidance; self-adjusting dosage or stopping medication is not recommended. During treatment, maintain a light diet, avoid alcohol consumption and overexertion. Regular follow-up tests of liver function and hepatitis A-related markers are necessary to monitor recovery progress and ensure therapeutic effectiveness.

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