What are the symptoms of hepatitis C?

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Hepatitis C is a kind of viral hepatitis caused by hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. It is mainly transmitted through blood transfusion or blood products, hemodialysis, single plasma transfusion, kidney transplantation, intravenous drug injection, sexual transmission, mother to child transmission, etc. What are the symptoms of hepatitis C? Next, I'd like to share my views with you.

What are the symptoms of hepatitis C?

The early symptoms of hepatitis C include: anorexia, bad appetite, nausea, vomiting and other gastrointestinal abnormalities; There are symptoms of fatigue, weakness, and want nothing. There are yellow face, yellow skin, yellow eyes, yellow sclera, yellow urine and other jaundice early symptoms of hepatitis C.

The onset of acute icteric hepatitis C is relatively slow, but a small number of hepatitis C patients will have fever, headache, limb pain and other symptoms. The main symptoms of this type of hepatitis C include general fatigue, anorexia, nausea, vomiting, anorexia, abdominal distension, liver pain, deepening urine color, etc. the main changes of liver function are ALT elevation. With the development of the disease, the symptoms of patients with hepatitis C improved, fever subsided, but then jaundice.

Some patients with hepatitis C may have obstructive jaundice such as transient pale stool color, pruritus and bradycardia. The signs were accompanied by hepatomegaly, tenderness and percussion pain. Some cases had mild splenomegaly. ALT and bilirubin increased in liver function test, and urine bilirubin was positive. The symptoms of hepatitis C gradually disappeared, jaundice subsided, liver and spleen retracted, and liver function gradually returned to normal. In addition to jaundice, the incidence rate of other patients with acute jaundice is similar to that of icteric hepatitis C, and is higher than that of icteric hepatitis C.

matters needing attention

Hepatitis C patients should eat a light diet, eat more digestible food, eat more vegetables, fruits, beans, fish and so on. Avoid alcohol and tobacco, avoid greasy and irritating food, control the normal weight.