\n\u2022 Sharing needles and drugs
\n\u2022 Infected needles
\n\u2022 Unprotected sex
\n\u2022 From mother to foetus
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What kind of symptoms does Hepatitis C manifest?<\/strong>\n\u2022 Jaundice
\n\u2022 Abdominal pain
\n\u2022 Loss of appetite
\n\u2022 Weight loss
\n\u2022 Nausea
\n\u2022 Weariness<\/p>\n
People who are at risk for hepatitis C include:-<\/strong> Treatment for Hepatitis C<\/strong> Long term effects of hepatitis C if not treated can lead to conditions like:-<\/strong> Is Hepatitis C preventable?<\/strong> <\/p>\n Kauvery Hospital is globally known for its multidisciplinary services at all its Centers of Excellence, and for its comprehensive, Avant-Grade technology, especially in diagnostics and remedial care in heart diseases, transplantation, vascular and neurosciences medicine. Located in the heart of Trichy (Tennur, Royal Road and Alexandria Road (Cantonment), Chennai, Hosur, Salem, Tirunelveli and Bengaluru, the hospital also renders adult and pediatric trauma care.<\/p>\n Chennai \u2013 044 4000 6000 \u2022 Trichy \u2013 Cantonment \u2013 0431 4077777 \u2022 Trichy \u2013 Heartcity \u2013 0431 4077777 \u2022 Trichy \u2013 Tennur \u2013 0431 4022555 \u2022 Maa Kauvery Trichy \u2013 0431 4077777 \u2022 Kauvery Cancer Institute, Trichy \u2013 0431 4077777 \u2022 Hosur \u2013 04344 272727 \u2022 Salem \u2013 0427 2677777 \u2022 Tirunelveli – 0462 4006000 \u2022 Bengaluru – 080 6801 6801<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It is caused by the hepatitis C virus and it infects the liver. Many people may have the infection and may not even know. The virus spreads through the blood<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4697,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gastroenterology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4535"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8865,"href":"https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4535\/revisions\/8865"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u2022 Patients who\u2019ve had infected blood transfusions
\n\u2022 Drug abused patients
\n\u2022 Those who have been on long term kidney dialysis
\n\u2022 HIV infected
\n\u2022 Babies born to a mother who has the infection
\n\u2022 Persons suffering from liver disease
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\n\u2022 If diagnosed early, you may not need medication immediately. Instead you will be checked in a few months again to see if your body fights off the virus.
\n\u2022 If you have chronic hepatitis, you will need treatment that will include:-
\n– Taking medication
\n– Making lifestyle changes to help prevent further damage to your liver<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 Liver cancer
\n\u2022 Liver cirrhosis
\n\u2022 Scarring of the liver
\n\u2022 May ultimately need liver transplant
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\nThere is no vaccine for it. But you can follow simple rules to stay safe.
\nThese rules should be followed if you have hepatitis C, so that you don\u2019t infect other people.
\n\u2022 Stop taking drugs
\n\u2022 Don\u2019t share needles
\n\u2022 Make sure a new needle is used at the laboratory when taking blood
\n\u2022 Use a condom during intercourse
\n\u2022 Don’t share personal items like razors
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