Hello! I'm 24 weeks pregnant, doctors said that I have hepatitis C virus in the blood. According to the analysis - At-HCV detected. Biochemical analysis - the liver is normal! All that said, plainly do not explain anything. Please tell us how it affects the child, if amenable to treatment, can I infect someone else, and how?

Respond Stanislav Y. Karpov, hepatology, gastroenterology, hepatology and gastroenterology clinic Medal presence of antibodies to C has not said about the presence of the virus. This requires a blood HCV-RNA, ie, the virus itself. If a virus is detected, then the probability of transmitting the virus to your child is not more than 5% of the similar question: ... at the clinical examination detected hepatitis C, for ... this time, the analysis did not significantly ...