What does hepatitis C check

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In my daily life, I pay more attention to maintenance problems. However, recently, I came out with symptoms of liver pain. After going to the hospital for examination, I found that it was caused by hepatitis C. for some problems that hepatitis C needs to check, I will tell you these problems, so that you can better treat hepatitis C.

What does hepatitis C check

Check one: antibody is produced by the reaction of human immune cells to virus infection or vaccine. Hepatitis C antibody test is to determine the existence of virus by testing the existence of hepatitis C antibody, not the virus itself.

Check 2: HCV-RNA (PCR): this test is to detect the actual presence of HCV in the blood. This is a very sensitive test that can detect the virus within two weeks of infection.

Check three: hepatitis C check must first be clear infection of hepatitis C virus, not necessarily suffering from hepatitis C, because hepatitis C also exists asymptomatic virus carriers, they generally do not have obvious liver damage. The diagnosis of hepatitis C mainly includes two aspects: one is whether the markers of hepatitis C virus are positive, the other is whether there is liver damage and the severity of damage.

matters needing attention

For patients with hepatitis C, timely remission treatment should be carried out. In daily life, bad living habits should be corrected in time, and good habits of daily life should be formed. Mother to child transmission is an important way of transmission, including trans placenta, delivery, lactation and other ways of transmission. Close contact between family members in daily life is also an important route of transmission.