Does hepatitis C have antibody

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My aunt has been suffering from hepatitis C for two years. In her daily life, she has been treated by drugs. For patients with hepatitis C, we should find and treat them early. For patients with hepatitis C, do you want to know if there are antibodies to hepatitis C?

Does hepatitis C have antibody

First of all: once hepatitis C antibody is positive, it can only indicate that it has been infected, but whether there is still virus in the body now, HCV-RNA test is needed. HCV-RNA is used to detect the actual presence of HCV in blood. This is a very sensitive test that can detect the virus within two weeks of infection.

Second: hepatitis C is transmitted through mother to child vertical transmission. Mothers infected with hepatitis C virus mainly transmit hepatitis C virus to their children at birth or lactation. At present, with the progress of medicine, the mother to child blocking measures of hepatitis C are becoming more and more perfect, and the chance of vertical transmission of hepatitis C is getting smaller and smaller.

Finally: hepatitis C is transmitted through blood transmission, that is, transfusion of blood infected by hepatitis C virus or use of blood products is the main way to transmit hepatitis C. Organ transplantation, hemodialysis patients and patients undergoing massive blood transfusion are the high risk groups of hepatitis C infection.

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Patients with hepatitis C should go to the regular hospital for examination and treatment as soon as possible. At the initial stage of infection with hepatitis C virus, patients do not feel uncomfortable. After the incubation period of about 2 months, only about a quarter of the patients will have poor appetite, fatigue, jaundice and other symptoms, while most of the patients do not feel anything.