Day contact with infectious hepatitis C will?
Patient consultation:
Two days before his wife was diagnosed with hepatitis C, and she worries that it would spread to me and my son, may I ask daily contact with infectious hepatitis C do?
Expert Q & A:
Can infection, depending on how the so-called life of contacts of contacts.
Hepatitis C through blood-borne, or blood transfusion and blood products (including lost albumin, gamma globulin, blood dialysis, organ transplants, etc.), as well as through the broken skin and mucous membranes communication (use of non-disposable syringes and needles, without the strict disinfection of dental instruments, endoscopy, invasive operation and acupuncture, such as intravenous drug use, tattoos, etc.).
Currently, sexual contact, mother to child transmission, and contacts within the family is still controversial whether the spread of hepatitis C, the more common view is: sexual contact, mother to child transmission (mother, suffering from hepatitis C of their fetus) can be transmitted C the liver, but the life within the family contact (kissing, hugging, sneezing, coughing, eating, drinking, sharing utensils and cups, etc.) generally do not spread HCV.
Your wife is hepatitis C patients, through sexual contact, you may be infected with hepatitis C (prevalence of about 3% ~ 27%); if your wife would like to give birth, then, through mother to child transmission in the future also have a child born may be infected with hepatitis C (prevalence of 4% ~ 7%); If your son has already spent breast-feeding period, he and his mother is just life in general contact, then infected with hepatitis C is highly unlikely.