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Question: I have fun with Answers, but this is serious. Should a father inform his son that his(the fathers) long time live in girlfriend has Hepatitis c befoe they offer to babysit that sons 4 yr. old daughter for a few days?
Answers: I have fun with Answers, but this is serious. Should a father inform his son that his(the fathers) long time live in girlfriend has Hepatitis c befoe they offer to babysit that sons 4 yr. old daughter for a few days?
This is from the CDC:
"Occurs when blood from an infected person enters the body of a person who is not infected.
HCV is spread through sharing needles or "works" when "shooting" drugs, through needlesticks or sharps exposures on the job, or from an infected mother to her baby during birth."
This is also from the CDC:
"There is no vaccine to prevent hepatitis C.
Do not shoot drugs; if you shoot drugs, stop and get into a treatment program; if you can't stop, never share needles, syringes, water, or "works", and get vaccinated against hepatitis A & B.
Do not share personal care items that might have blood on them (razors, toothbrushes).
If you are a health care or public safety worker, always follow routine barrier precautions and safely handle needles and other sharps; get vaccinated against hepatitis B.
Consider the risks if you are thinking about getting a tattoo or body piercing. You might get infected if the tools have someone else's blood on them or if the artist or piercer does not follow good health practices.
HCV can be spread by sex, but this is rare. If you are having sex with more than one steady sex partner, use latex condoms* correctly and every time to prevent the spread of sexually transmitted diseases. You should also get vaccinated against hepatitis B.
If you are HCV positive, do not donate blood, organs, or tissue."
I hope this answers your question and sets your mind at rest. There is practically NO risk to the daughter.
As a healthcare professional myself, I could have answered this question without the help of the CDC. However, your question suggested you wanted official information and that is what I gave you.
EMT
Oh yeah. HepC is contagious through open sores kinda stuff, and yes, the parents of the boy need to know this.
This is not necessary. Good handwashing is the best defense. It is not contagious in the sense that the family needs to be notified about this. The granddaughter is not going to have a sexual contact with the girlfriend, or come into contact with her blood or body fluids, right? Dont give out health info to your son unnecessarily. Stop worrying. Please educate yourself on Hep C, you'll realize that babysitting is ok to do , and its not necessary to inform the world of your girlfriends condition.Hepatitis C is usually spread through direct contact with the blood of a person who has the disease. Many times, the cause of hepatitis C is never found. Sharing razors or toothbrushes can transmit the hepatitis C virus. It can be transmitted by needles used for tattooing or body piercing. It can even be passed from a mother to her unborn baby. This virus can be transmitted through sex, but this is rare. All of these ways of catching hepatitis C are uncommon, but they do occur.
Hepatitis C can't be spread unless a person has direct contact with infected blood. This means a person who has hepatitis C can't pass the virus to others through casual contact such as sneezing, coughing, shaking hands, hugging, kissing, sharing eating utensils or drinking glasses, swimming in a pool, using public toilets or touching doorknobs.
ABSOLUTELY! I would be LIVID if someone knowingly had that and kept my child without informing me. Tell him and let him decide if he wants to take that risk.
Absolutely! Though his son is most likely vaccinated against Hepatitis, the father most certainly deserves to know that his son may be exposed to the disease.
Of course!!!. You are supposed to tell people when their life is in danger so they can do what's necessary to save their life.
If someone like that was in my house depositing deadly germs all over the place, I would damn well want to know.
absolutely.
First of all, Hep C is spread ONLY from blood to blood contact. It is NOT passed in any other way or from any bodily fluids. The only possible way to contract Hep C is to come in direct contact with an infected person's blood. If you don't want to tell anyone, don't. It's not contagious through any means of casual contact and I'm sure that the infected person takes the necessary precautions to not put anyone at risk. There is no need to give a person a complete medical history before watching a child if the child is in no danger of contracting the disease. Good luck.
I don't believe it's neccesary. My husband has Hep C and we just be sure that we don't come into contact with his blood.
I have 3 children (one with him) and when we found out (about 5 yrs ago- he contracted it through IV drug use back in the 70's) we were all tested and all came up negative.
We were told that it would be highly unlikely that the kids would get it through casual contact, and that there is only a slight chance that I could get it through sex.
I believe the child has more of a chance of getting a cold then getting Hep C from the girlfriend. She should be the one to deside if she wants to share that with the boyfriends son or not.
In a situation like the girlfriend letting the boyfriend know before they were intimate would be a different story altogether, blood could be transferred through kissing if the infected person has bleeding gums etc.
I work in healthcare at a long term care facility with patients who may have Hepatitis or AIDS/HIV. You would think that we would have the right to know these things, but we don't. Because of patient confidentiality, they have the right not to disclose this info to their caregivers, so as a standard, we always assume that they have it and use precautions so that we do not come into contact with their blood.. It goes the same way for us, we don't have to disclose it to them either.
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No, I don't think it is good, or needed, it will just scare her
I would also like to add that many who have hcv dont even know they have it. For goodness sake, the son could have it and not even know it.
as for hcv? blood to blood only! I am sure the fathers girlfriend knows how to make sure the kids are safe.
as for the others out there? if you dont know what your talking about DONT ANSWER.
as always, everyone has one risk factor for hcv so get tested!!