Symptoms of HCV infection?

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Many people don't know much about hepatitis C, and they don't know much about some symptoms of hepatitis C. Hepatitis C is caused by hepatitis C virus. Generally speaking, the symptoms of hepatitis C are more hidden, and hepatitis C is difficult to be found, so we must take relative preventive measures in peacetime, and pay attention to our body in time. Symptoms of HCV infection? Let's talk about it.

Symptoms of HCV infection?

The condition of adult acute hepatitis C is relatively mild, most of them are acute non icteric hepatitis, ALT is mainly elevated, a few of them are acute icteric hepatitis, jaundice is mild or moderately elevated. Nausea, loss of appetite, general weakness, yellow urine and yellow eyes may appear. Hepatitis C virus infection alone rarely causes liver failure.

The symptoms are mild, common symptoms of hepatitis, such as fatigue, poor appetite, abdominal distension, etc. It can also be without any conscious symptoms. ALT fluctuated repeatedly and HCV RNA remained positive. One third of the patients with chronic HCV infection had normal liver function and sustained positive anti HCV and HCV RNA.

After 20-30 years of HCV infection, 10% - 20% of the patients will develop cirrhosis, and 1% - 5% of the patients will develop hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) leading to death. Once the decompensation of liver cirrhosis occurs, such as jaundice, ascites, variceal bleeding, hepatic encephalopathy, the survival rate will decline sharply.

matters needing attention

Chronic hepatitis C virus infection is highly correlated with liver cirrhosis and liver cancer. The rate of liver cirrhosis and liver cancer caused by hepatitis C virus is faster than that of hepatitis B virus. At present, there are about 170 million people infected with hepatitis C virus in the world. In China, there are nearly 40 million people infected with hepatitis C virus, with a chronic rate of 70%. There are about 35000 new cases of hepatitis C infection every year. Hepatitis C virus is difficult to detect. When the patient is 60 or 70 years old, he may have already caused liver cirrhosis and liver cancer. The number of patients with chronic infection is large, the treatment period is long, the treatment cost is high, the efficacy is poor, and the quality of life is low. Serious harm to people's health.