How long can you live with hepatitis C

How long can a person with hepatitis C live? This is a question that patients with hepatitis C and their families are concerned about. How long can a person with hepatitis C live? It mainly depends on one's physical condition. Moreover, if you have hepatitis C, you may experience some depression in daily life. However, you must maintain physical and mental happiness in order to better cure it. How long can a person with hepatitis C live is a question that everyone is concerned about.

Many patients will be in a state of depression for a long time after contracting hepatitis C, which will produce worse side effects of the disease. Therefore, those who have hepatitis C must pay attention to timely treatment and develop good eating habits, treat the disease correctly and maintain a good attitude.

How long a person with hepatitis C can live depends on many factors, including the severity of the patient's condition, whether he receives scientific treatment, whether he pays attention to recuperation in life, and whether he treats the disease correctly and maintains a good attitude, all of which have a certain impact on the life expectancy of hepatitis C patients. How long can you live with hepatitis C? If you ignore hepatitis C and let it develop, as the disease progresses, the hepatitis C virus will continue to damage the liver. More than 80% of hepatitis C infections will develop chronic hepatitis C, and further 10% to 20% of patients will develop cirrhosis, of which 1% to 5% will develop liver cancer in 20 to 30 years, endangering the patient's life safety and affecting the patient's life expectancy.

It does not mean that all hepatitis C patients will develop liver cancer and affect their life expectancy. As long as patients pay attention to the factors that affect the life expectancy of hepatitis C patients mentioned above and do the following, hepatitis C can be cured and they can still live the same life expectancy as normal people.

1 The treatment of hepatitis C is similar to that of hepatitis B. Both require the virus to be negative, liver function to be normal, and stable before considering stopping the medication, otherwise rebound may occur

2 If the virus is currently positive, it is recommended to continue interferon treatment. As for life expectancy, it can be determined based on the combined medical history and liver function and hepatobiliary B-ultrasound test results.

3 It is recommended to strictly abstain from alcohol and limit smoking, avoid excessive fatigue, avoid staying up late for a long time, eat a light, nutritionally comprehensive, regular meals, and avoid a long-term high-fat and high-sugar diet.

The above is an introduction to how long a person with hepatitis C can live. You will definitely feel depressed in your daily life, but you must maintain your physical and mental happiness. You must pay attention to timely treatment and develop good eating habits in order to achieve better cure. I believe that hepatitis C is not an incurable disease and can be recovered.