Hepatitis C

Are you experiencing jaundice, fatigue, dark urine,evidence of liver disease.
abdominal pain, loss of appetite, and nausea? If youThe blood tests that will be conducted are anti-HCV,
experience all these, you can be suffering fromqualitative tests to detect presence or absence of
hepatitis C, a disease of the liver, which is caused byvirus, and quantitative tests to detect amount of
the hepatitis C virus or HCV. This disease isvirus. These tests can determine if you have been
transmitted when the blood from an infected personinfected with HCV. Your doctor can recommend you
enters the body of an uninfected person. It can beto undergo one or a combination of these tests.
spread through sharing needles. It can also beSince there is no vaccine to hepatitis C, prevention is
transmitted from an infected mother to her babyone of the best things that a person can do to avoid
during birth. The long-term effects of this diseasethe risk factors. You should never shoot drugs, or if
include chronic infection, chronic liver disease, andyou can't stop, at least never share needles. Also do
death.not share personal care items that might have blood
Unlike other diseases, hepatitis C has no vaccine, buton them, like razors. If you are thinking about getting
there are blood tests that are available to check fora tattoo or ear piercing, you might as well think twice
this disease, especially if you were notified that youbecause there is risk of getting infected if the tools
received blood from an infected donor or if you havehave someone else's blood on them. Keep all these
ever injected illegal drugs. You should also contactpreventive measures in mind because prevention is
your medical provider for a blood test if you havealways better than the non-existent cure.
ever been on long-term kidney dialysis or if you have