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People who are within the following groups should be tested for hepatitis C:

- People who use injecting drugs
- People who injected drugs in the past, even just one time years ago. Remember that the symptoms do not show up for 30 years!
- People infected with HIV
- People with liver blood tests (liver) or have abnormal liver disease
- People who have received a donation of blood or an organ before 1992
- People who have been exposed to contamination by blood at work, either with a puncture or have been cut with a sharp object
- People who are on dialysis
- People with fatty liver, diabetes and / or with high cholesterol also increases your risk, and in this group are Hispanics. Read the rest of this entry »

The progression of hepatitis C

To give you a better idea of ??the extent and severity of hepatitis C, it is estimated that: for every 100 people infected with the virus, between 75 and 85 develop chronic infection. Of the latter, 60 to 70 develop chronic liver disease. 5 to 20 will develop cirrhosis and 1 to 5 will die from cirrhosis or liver cancer. As you do not want to see in this situation, it is important to know how to prevent hepatitis C.

How is it spread?

Hepatitis C can have multiple routes of transmission, but usually spread when blood from an infected person enters the body of another person. Most often occurs by sharing needles to inject drugs, or when doing tattoos or piercings at establishments that do not maintain strict hygiene and sterilization of instruments, or through blood transfusions with contaminated blood (the latter especially before 1992). Read the rest of this entry »

Your liver is a vital organ that is responsible for processing nutrients, filtering the blood and fight infections. If it becomes inflamed or damaged, can not properly perform their functions. One of the viral diseases that can affect the liver is hepatitis C, a contagious, chronic and common experience about 3.2 million people in the United States. Most even have to know the consequences can be very serious damage to health. And most worrying is that some 17, 000 people are infected each year. Therefore it is very important to learn to prevent it.

You know what is hepatitis? The term generally refers to inflammation of the liver. This inflammation or a virus, or toxins (either from excessive alcohol, certain drugs, industrial solvents, certain plants) or as a result of certain medical conditions (an autoimmune disease, among others). There are a variety of hepatitis caused by different viruses and there are many, but the most common are hepatitis A, hepatitis B and hepatitis C. On this occasion we shall discuss in more detail for hepatitis C. Read the rest of this entry »