Latent symptoms of hepatitis C?

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According to the research data, the prevalence of hepatitis C in China is increasing year by year, and many patients with hepatitis C did not find early symptoms, which led to the deterioration of hepatitis C, leading to serious liver lesions, missed the best opportunity for treatment“ As the immune response caused by hepatitis C virus in the human body is relatively mild, many patients may have no obvious symptoms for a long time after infection, which is more conducive to its hiding in the human body to damage the liver. " A considerable number of hepatitis C infected patients only show fatigue, loss of appetite, low fever and other symptoms, some of them have mild liver dysfunction, but half of them have neither symptoms nor liver dysfunction. Latent symptoms of hepatitis C? I'd like to share my views with you.

Latent symptoms of hepatitis C?

In the early stage, the symptoms of hepatitis C were generally mild, and the enlargement of liver and spleen, tenderness and abdominal distension were obvious. Gastrointestinal symptoms and jaundice can also be seen in severe patients. When liver fibrosis and cirrhosis were obvious, there were bleeding in nose and teeth, telangiectasia in face, neck and chest, liver palmar and spider disease.

In severe cases, ascites, pleural effusion, esophageal varices or gastric varices rupture and hemorrhage may occur. Acute fulminant hepatitis sometimes occurs fulminant liver failure, prothrombin activity decreased to less than 40%, and hepatic coma. The clinical manifestations of most patients with chronic hepatitis C are not obvious, and the symptoms are generally non-specific, mild and intermittent. Common fatigue, but also from time to time anorexia, nausea, right upper abdominal pain and dark urine color. Chronic hepatitis C (CHC) infection is a kind of potential slow progressive liver disease, which usually appears after decades of obvious clinical manifestations. It is found that it has developed into cirrhosis during examination.

The incubation period of hepatitis C was 2-26 weeks (mean 7.4 weeks). The incubation period of sporadic hepatitis C is undetermined. General clinical course is light, subclinical type is more common, severe hepatitis is less. Compared with hepatitis B, the average value of ALT and bilirubin is lower, the duration of jaundice is shorter, the condition is lighter and fever is rare. The common symptoms are fatigue, loss of appetite, no jaundice in most cases, single ALT elevation, persistent or repeated abnormal characteristics, but the proportion of chronic hepatitis is higher than that of hepatitis B (40% - 50%), and the non jaundice type is more prone to chronic than jaundice type. The others were cured within 6 months, showing a self limiting process. Most of chronic hepatitis C showed abnormal ATL, elevated AST and abnormal protein metabolism, but the signs such as spider nevus, liver palmar, splenomegaly were not as obvious as hepatitis B.

matters needing attention

Once the above five symptoms are found in daily life, we should be alert to hepatitis C. We should go to the hospital as soon as possible for further examination and diagnosis, and active treatment. Hepatitis C can not only cause liver damage, but also lead to serious complications.