Hepatitis c symptons?!
Question: how do you get it?
Answers: how do you get it?
Signs and symptoms
--Early-stage signs and symptoms
Commonly, hepatitis C infection produces no signs or symptoms during its earliest stages. When it does, they're generally mild and flu-like and may include:
?Slight fatigue
?Nausea or poor appetite
?Muscle and joint pains
?Tenderness in the area of your liver
--Later stage signs and symptoms
Even if you develop chronic hepatitis from the hepatitis C virus, you may have few, if any, symptoms. In many cases, signs and symptoms may not appear for decades. Sometimes, though, you may experience one or more of the following:
?Fatigue
?Lack of appetite
?Nausea and vomiting
?Persistent or recurring yellowing of your skin and eyes (jaundice)
?Low-grade fever
Hepatitis C can cause damage to your liver, even if you don't have symptoms. You're also able to pass the virus to others without having any symptoms yourself. That's why it's important to be tested if you think you've been exposed to hepatitis C or if you engage in behavior that puts you at risk.
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How could a person have gotten hepatitis C?
HCV is spread primarily by direct contact with human blood. For example, you may have gotten infected with HCV if:
?You ever injected street drugs, as the needles and/or other drug "works" used to prepare or inject the drug(s) may have had someone else's blood that contained HCV on them.
?You received blood, blood products, or solid organs from a donor whose blood contained HCV.
?You were ever on long-term kidney dialysis as you may have unknowingly shared supplies/equipment that had someone else's blood on them.
?You were ever a healthcare worker and had frequent contact with blood on the job, especially accidental needlesticks.
?Your mother had hepatitis C at the time she gave birth to you. During the birth her blood may have gotten into your body.
?You ever had sex with a person infected with HCV.
?You lived with someone who was infected with HCV and shared items such as razors or toothbrushes that might have had his/her blood on them.
Hope this helps ?
Above is correct. Only flu like symptoms a few weeks after being infected. Many people never get any symptoms at all. Even very late in the disease the only thing most Hep C patients complain about is fatigue. It is a virus that is spred by blood to blood contact from infected people. It can be spred by sharing needles, tattoos and piercings (not using new needles and color pots,) rough sex (rough enough for blood to be present). You can get it from using an infected persons toothbrush, comb or nail clippers. Any blood to blood contact. You can NOT get it from shaking hands, kissing, or bodily fluids. Hep B is spred that way. (the body fluids and sex) My husband has had Hep C since he was in VietNam. (field blood transfusion) We have gone to many, many, Hep C education classes and he is now taking the treatment
my dad has had it for possibly 30 years, but he can't recall any symptoms. he worked in a lab for one year, so most likely he was infected there.
his health is fine bc he has a very low level of hep c. and doesn't need treatment.