During pregnancy, the passage of analysis by the ELISA, I have found chronic viral hepatitis C. I retake analysis and PCR confirmed the presence of hepatitis. I do not use drugs, I did not do a transfusion. Quantitative analysis has not yet passed, now I have a period of 36 weeks. When should we pass a quantitative analysis? How likely is child transmission during childbirth, as well as feeding? How big is the probability of infection from my husband?

Respond Tatyana Stepanova, a gastroenterologist, hepatologist probability of infection during pregnancy depends on viral load. If the amount of virus greater than 2 million copies / ml of blood, then the probability of fetal transmission of 30%. Risk of infection exists in childbirth, so desirable that delivery occurred by cesarean section. Breast-feeding a child, we do not recommend, because even if the virus is not present in milk, but there is a possibility of contamination from micro-cracks on the nipple and microdamages in the mouth of the child when it becomes possible for the virus to pass from the blood of the mother to the baby. Probability of infection for her husband almost non-existent (0 - 7). Similar question: ... uzi? 2) What is the probability of infection of the child in such assays, and when my ...