Hepatitis C harms is no small

Hepatitis C is caused by the hepatitis C virus is through blood transfusion or blood products, blood dialysis, blood transfusion was also apheresis plasma ball, renal transplantation, intravenous drug use, sexual transmission, mother to child transmission of infectious caused.

Reporter learned from the city hospital for infectious diseases, hepatitis C infection accounted for the hospital outpatient amount of 1 / 3.

It is reported that hepatitis C is not harmful to human inferior to hepatitis B, a longer disease course, and has considerable hidden, it is highly likely more than a decade to develop into cirrhosis or liver cancer later.

Liver Research Institute, City, Qu is said Fang, as a means of testing hepatitis C must be a blood and reagent restricted, HCV detection rate was only 80%. Once infected with hepatitis C, its symptoms less, progress was slow, and liver function are mostly normal or abnormal, patients or doctors can not easily be found, so in the community formed a large, hidden, and not diagnosis of chronic hepatitis C groups, but also a dangerous source of infection.

Music director suggested that HCV infection should be in the regular hospital treatment, but also away from the chemical reagents and toxic substances, do not drink, so as to avoid further damage to the liver.

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