Transaminase in close contact with the hepatitis C
Although there are some patients with hepatitis C can be self-healing, but for all patients with acute hepatitis C should be given active treatment, because the acute effect of a good. The treatment of patients with specific conditions in accordance with proper rest, JiangMei, liver protection, anti-virus and other symptomatic treatment, in which the most important treatment course ought to antiretroviral therapy.
“Once a mildly elevated transaminases continued, the exclusion of the hepatitis A, hepatitis B and fatty liver, may not forget to check the hepatitis C!” City Hospital for Infectious Diseases Liver Wang Yi, director of a recent interview with reporters, said that people now Hepatitis C is also more familiar with, but from 2002 to 2006 four-year period, China’s hepatitis C morbidity and mortality rates increased by 3.3-fold and 2.7-fold increase was evident.
She said, hepatitis C than hepatitis A, hepatitis B into a high risk of chronic. With acute hepatitis A more common, generally do not translate into chronic; hepatitis B infection during childhood into a higher risk of chronic adult infection in the majority of post-acute disease or health to carry. The hepatitis C is different from more than 80% of those infected will be transformed into chronic, of which 20% will progress to cirrhosis of the liver, some eventually develop into liver cancer.
Even more frightening is the very onset occult hepatitis C, it is easy to be ignored. Hepatitis A, hepatitis B patients were more obvious almost asthenia, anorexia, nausea and discomfort, and mild hepatitis, jaundice, rare, patients tend to appear only mildly elevated transaminase. Clinical studies have shown that the majority of patients with chronic hepatitis C disease 10 or even 20 years, without any apparent discomfort or occasional gastrointestinal symptoms, and only a small number of patients with abnormal immune response due to the body, there will be itching of skin, rheumatoid arthritis, dry conjunctival keratitis, glomerulonephritis and other seemingly unrelated to the liver and liver outside the performance. Thus, many hepatitis C patients seeking treatment in the medical examination or other diseases was discovered by accident, but when and how the hepatitis C virus infection, often without the knowledge of.
Wang Yi said that, with hepatitis A, hepatitis B is different from not produce the vaccine to prevent hepatitis C, which lifestyles utmost importance. Similar with hepatitis B, hepatitis C virus via blood, sexual life and mother to child vertical transmission. People should avoid sharing syringes intravenous drug use, can not be accepted strict sterilization of dental instruments, endoscopy, acupuncture and other screening, treatment, do not share razors, toothbrushes, less than sanitary conditions unqualified beauty salons tattoos, Wen-mei, pierced ears, avoid dirty sex life.