What is the chance of sexual transmission of hepatitis C?

In daily life, you may have only heard of hepatitis A and hepatitis B. In fact, there is also a liver disease called hepatitis C. Compared with hepatitis A and hepatitis B, hepatitis C is more serious and more harmful to the human body. And according to the order of hepatitis C, it is highly contagious, so it should be treated promptly after it occurs in the human body. But for hepatitis C patients, how high is the probability of its transmission?

Hepatitis C is highly contagious, and there is no vaccine that can prevent hepatitis C infection, so the key to the current prevention and control of hepatitis C is early detection, early diagnosis, and early treatment. Therefore, it is very necessary to go to the hospital for hepatitis C testing regularly. At the same time, necessary preventive measures should be taken in daily life to avoid the transmission of hepatitis C as much as possible. Sexual transmission is a major route of transmission of hepatitis C

When a hepatitis C patient has sexual intercourse, the chance of his or her spouse being infected is between 15% and 38.1%, and the chance of a female spouse being infected is higher than that of a male spouse. This is mainly because in addition to close contact between couples or boyfriends and girlfriends in daily life, semen transmission during sexual intercourse may also be an important reason, and semen stays in the female vagina and uterus longer, so the chance of infection will be greater. After being infected with the hepatitis C virus, the rate of chronicity is relatively high (is hepatitis C contagious in the early stages?). About 50% to 85% of patients with acute hepatitis C will develop into chronic hepatitis C. About 20% to 30% of patients with hepatitis C infected by blood transfusion will eventually develop cirrhosis. The probability of patients with hepatitis C caused by other reasons developing cirrhosis is about 10% to 15%.

Once cirrhosis occurs, the incidence of eventually developing into liver cancer is about 5%. Hepatitis C is very harmful. Many chronic hepatitis C patients often have no symptoms and no obvious physical discomfort, but inflammatory changes are quietly occurring inside the patient's liver, causing the degree of fibrosis of the liver tissue to become increasingly serious, evolving into cirrhosis or even liver cancer. However, hepatitis C is not as difficult to treat as hepatitis B. As long as it is treated in time, hepatitis C can be completely cured. As the best liver disease hospital in Hebei, Shijiazhuang PLA 256 Liver Disease Hospital takes science and technology as the guide, talent as the foundation, efficacy as the basis, service as the survival, innovation as the brand as the business philosophy