“The other 15% of hepatitis C virus infected individuals simply have an acute infection; that is, one that resolves spontaneously in a few weeks or months”.
Is there still a possibility of someone who fits the above description, to infect their spouse with hepatitis C?
Wesley
Hepatitis is known as the inflammation of the liver produced by viruses, medications, toxic agents. Hepatitis of viral cause is considered to be acute or chronic. There are different types of viruses that produce different types of hepatitis: hepatitis A, B, C, D, E each has its own characteristics.
Hepatitis C is shared by contaminated needles, drug-injection equipment, non-sterilized equipment for acupuncture, tattooing and body piercing, by unprotected sex, during delivery from mother to baby, when prizing cocaine, through a blood transfusion.
Some people may have no evident symptoms but they transmit the virus to others.
Most common symptoms include: nausea and vomiting, loss of appetite, diarrhea, weight loss, itchy skin, jaundice. A high percent of people pass the virus to others and remain infected for many years, acute hepatitis becomes chronic hepatitis. The complications that occur in chronic hepatitis are: liver cirrhosis, liver cancer.
You are advised to search help in local clinics of sexual health, or special clinics which include: genito-urinary department, sexually transmitted diseases, venereal diseases departments. You can find the nearest clinic by searching on the internet or phone at your local hospital. Treatment and advices are free and confidential. NHS sexual health clinics usually offer the kind of treatment needed in the cases of acute hepatitis. You may also address: your own GP, a hospital Accident and Emergency department, www.playingsafely.co.uk offers detailes of STD clinics, to http://herpes-coldsores.com/support/std_clinic_us.htm for STD clinics in Australia, New Zealand, Puerto Rico and India.
There are some tests to be performed to see exactly, if you are infected and with what type of hepatitis, blood tests, a test for antibodies to the hepatitis C virus which shows if you have antibodies against hepatitis C virus and that you have been exposed to hepatitis C virus and the source of infection is important to be discovered, if your tests are positive it means you are infected with hepatitis and you can pass it to others.
Some people remain chronically infected with hepatitis C virus and transmit the infection to others, liver function tests, liver biopsy are required to see if you need to follow any treatment. A reinfection may occur any time. If the result is negative it means that you have never been in contact with hepatitis C virus. Those test(blood tests, physical check-ups) are recommended to be repeated in specialized services. At present there is no vaccine anti- hepatitis C available. Other measures you should take if you have active hepatitis are adopting a healthy diet with no fats and low salt, use condom when you have sex in order not to pass the virus to your partner, do not share your toothbrush or your shaving equipment.
Remember to use condoms so as not to pass or get sexually transmitted infections.
If you want to find out more resources about causes of hepatitis c or even about hepatitis c treatment you should visit this website http://www.hepatitis-guide.com
Chris
I’m interested in getting a tattoo and people are saying that you can get hepatitis c from dirty hands? But, doesn’t the tattoo artist wear gloves? I am confused.
Mike
I can’t remember if I’ve had the Hepatitis B vaccine before, but I need it for a job. Should I go ahead and get it again?
Renee
In the prevention of hepatitis A you are recommended to wash your hands, eat only fresh cooked foods, drink only boiled water or bottled water, and do not eat vegetables or fruits that are not cleaned enough , if you travel in Mexico, eastern Europe and developing countries you may opt for a hepatitis A vaccination.
Symptoms of hepatitis vary depending on the cause of the illness and how much the liver has been damaged. Hepatitis may also result in pain or tenderness under the lower right rib edge due to the organ swelling. Symptoms of acute viral hepatitis may begin suddenly or develop gradually with flu like symptoms. Nearly all patients experience some fatigue and often have mild fever, loss of appetite, weight loss, and dehydration. Symptoms of progressive chronic viral hepatitis may be very subtle and no more than a mild persistence of acute symptoms for six or more months, fatigue is among the most common symptom affecting the quality of life of patients with chronic hepatitis C.
In the prevention of hepatitis B you should practice safe sex, inform your partner of your health state, do not share razors, brushes, needles, manicure tools that may have been contaminated. In the prevention of hepatitis C you are advised to practice safe sex, don’t share razors or manicure tools or needles, limit alcohol intake, never share IV drug needles or other drug equipment. In preventing hepatitis D you should prevent the infection with hepatitis B so adopt the measures mentioned in the prevention of hepatitis B.
If you want to prevent hepatitis E you should wash your hands, when eating fruits and vegetables wash them well and eat only freshly cooked food, drink only bottled water or boiled water especially in places where the sanitation of water supply is questionable.
In the prevention of alcoholic hepatitis one should: stop or reduce the consumption of alcohol. In the prevention of toxic or drug induced hepatitis one should: wear protective equipment, watch out of the lethal contents of the chemicals, do not expose directly to chemicals. The most appropriated treatment and therapy will be suggested by your doctor regarding the type and form of hepatitis that you developed, so do not try to treat it by yourself with home care remedies, because it is not enough.
You should ask your doctor the following questions:
If your hepatitis is severe?
Which type of hepatitis you have?
What test are performed to put the diagnosis?
How affected is the liver?
The damage of the liver is irreversible or reversible?
What treatment is recommended in your type of hepatitis?
What risks suppose the treatment?
If the family should take any precautions?
If you want to find out more resources about hepatitis c transmission or even about hepatitis c symptoms you should visit this website http://www.hepatitis-guide.com
Ramon
Hepatitis is an inflammation of the liver due to different causes. The symptoms of hepatitis are many and they are also different, depending on what type of hepatitis you have. However, there are many symptoms alike in all the hepatitis cases. These are the most common hepatitis symptoms.
This might sound a little bit funny, but the primary, the first hepatitis symptom is actually hepatitis. What is that, you might say. Well hepatitis means inflammation- itits of the liver- hepa. So the first sign of hepatitis is the inflammation of the liver. After this start in hepatitis, you will go through different hepatitis stages, each one of them having its particular symptoms. The next stage after hepatitis is the acute hepatitis phase. The symptoms of this hepatitis phase last about four weeks. When you find yourself in this hepatitis stage, you will experience symptoms similar to the flu, your skin and eyes will be yellowish and the urine will be dark. Nausea, fatigue and abdominal pain are also some of the hepatitis symptoms that you will have to deal with in this period. With proper hepatitis treatment, all the symptoms will go away. However, there are cases when patients go on to develop chronic hepatitis. They can realize that by the hepatitis symptoms that they have. If you find yourself in the chronic hepatitis stage, you will have to deal with weight loss, malaise and jaundice. These symptoms of hepatitis are only for those that have an active chronic hepatitis. If the hepatitis that you have is passive, you will probably have no hepatitis symptoms at all.
Hepatitis A is caused by poor conditions of living and sanitation. This type is cause of hepatitis is caused by a virus that sperads from the fecal material to water and food. The period of incubation in hepatitis A is from 15 to about 45 days. The onset of this type of hepatitis is abrupt and includes a fever. Hepatitis B is also caused by a virus, which appears in the blood, fecal mater, urine, saliva and even semen. The incubation period of hepatitis B is from 50 to 180 days. During this incubation period of hepatitis, the infection can spread, even if there are no hepatitis symptoms present. The virus that causes hepatitis C is transmitted by blood. This type of hepatitis is the worst hepatitis type and it is usually found in adults.
For more resources about hepatitis c information please review http://www.hepatitis-guide.com/ or even http://www.hepatitis-guide.com/causes-of-hepatitis-c.htm
Pauline
My school keeps passing out fliers that tell us to get screen for hepatitis b. I got all of my shots and someone told me that I am still at rick even so. What do you think?
Thanks.
Cindy
Hepatitis C is a very serious condition that can actually damage your liver very badly. This type of hepatitis, hepatitis C is the most frightening of all hepatitis types and it can very easily lead to liver cancer of even liver failure. There are treatments available for hepatitis C, but many of them are not right for you. What a hepatitis C patient must do is go to a doctor and discuss together with him/ her the right hepatitis treatment for him/ her.
When you use a treatment for hepatitis C, try to keep in mind that there are three very important things that a hepatitis treatment tryes to do. The first thing is to completely remove the hepatitis C virus from your organism, then to slow down, stop if possible the damaging of your liver and last but not least to remove all the hepatitis C symptoms that you have and thus make you feel a lot better. There are two types of hepatitis C treatment that have been aproved since now by the doctors. The first hepatitis C treatment is with interferon or with pegylated interferon alone, with no other combination and the second hepatitis C treatment is interferon combined with ribavirin. Doctors give hepatitis C patients interferon, because this drug is a kind of protein that can help fight the infection that you have. All people have interferon in their organism, so by taking this hepatitis C treatment you will have more interferon that you would normally do. This drug used to cure hepatitis C can be found in the form of a shot.
The second hepatitis C treatment is with interferon and ribavirin. Ribavirin is a drug that can fight some types of viruses, including the hepatitis C virus. This medicine come in the form of a pill, that the hepatitis C patient can swallow. Alone, ribavirin has no effect against hepatitis C virus, but together with interferon it can work miracles. To make sure that the hepatitis treatment that you are taking has any affect on you, your doctors will take blood samples before you start the hepatitis treatment, during this hepatitis C treatment and of course after you have finished the hepatitis treatment. Then your doctor will run some tests on the blood samples and tell you how your body is responding to the hepatitis C treatment. There are cases where this hepatitis C treatment will not work.
If you want to find out more resources about hepatitis or even about hepatitis c information you should visit this website http://www.hepatitis-guide.com
Lloyd
Hepatitis C is an inflammation of the liver caused by the hepatitis C virus. Hepatitis C virus is also known as the HCV virus. Cirrhosis and cancer
can result from damage done to the liver by the hepatitis C virus.
There is no cure or vaccine for hepatitis C. Just prevention. To keep from getting hepatitis C, take the following four precautions:
1. Do not share personal care items that might could have blood on them. Such as a shaver, nail clippers, or even a toothbrush. This also includes those needles they use for tattoos and anything to do with piercing the body.
2. Stay away from non-prescription intravenous drugs. If you must, get vaccinated against hepatitis A and B.
3. If you work in health care, or are a fireman or are a policeman, get vaccinated against hepatitis B.
4. Hepatitis C can be spread by sexual contact. If you are having sex with more than one steady sex partner, it’s recommended to use a condom each time. You should also get vaccinated against hepatitis B.
What to Do if You Have Hepatitis C
Talk to your doctor to see if treatment with interferon alpha or a combination of interferon alpha and ribavirin can help you. Don’t take any nutritional supplements without seeing your doctor first. Avoid alcohol. Even small amounts of alcohol can be dangerous because they speed up the progression of the hepatitis C (alcohol also reduces the effectiveness of hepatitis C treatment).
Katie
Hepatitis is a very common disease that can cause a lot of damage to your liver. In cases of viral hepatitis, there are some ways of prevention, but this generally speaking.
The most important thing to if you do not want to get infected with hepatitis is to keep a very good hygiene of your body and try to avoid living in crowded homes and most of all in unhealthy conditions. Because the viral hepatitis is mostly spread in the water, be very careful when travelling to places of the world where the quality of the water is uncertain. To avoid getting yourself infected with hepatitis, take care what you drink, where you bathe. If you are a seafood fan, be careful not to eat shellfish from waters that might be contaminated from the swage system. You can risk getting infected with hepatitis virus. Wash your hand every time after using the toilet and be careful not to eat with your hand dirty if you do not want to develop hepatitis. If, unfortunately somebody that you live with has developed hepatitis, clean all things that person with hepatitis has used.
Another common way to get infected with hepatitis is through needles that have been infected with hepatitis. This is mostly common in people who use drugs and in some medical procedure in less developed countries. Therefor, it is very good to let people know what risks they expose themselves, including hepatitis, when using intravenous drugs. Sexual contact can also be a cause for hepatitis infection, so teens should be educated accordingly.
In cases of hepatitis A, there are vaccines available. This vaccine is mostly recommended to people who travel a lot or have other liver problems, besides hepatitis. Furthermore, if those people have jobs that include contact with children or with many people, like in hospitals, the hepatitis vaccine is very indicated. There is available a vaccine for hepatitis B as well, which is a very good news in what hepatitis risk is concerned. Unfortunately, such a vaccine does not exist when hepatitis C is concerned. Studies on animals have shown that hepatitis C does not provoke the response that is needed for the vaccine to have any effect. If you contact the hepatitis virus, depending on what type of hepatitis you have, there are incubation periods. In hepatitis A, it lasts about one month, in hepatitis B from 4 to about 20 weeks and the longest is in hepatitis C, between two and twenty six weeks.
For more resources about hepatitis c transmission please review http://www.hepatitis-guide.com/hepatitis-c-symptoms.htm or even http://www.hepatitis-guide.com/hepatitis-c-transmission.htm
Ruby
