Viral hepatitis C is referred to as hepatitis C. Because it has only been truly recognized for more than 20 years, its infection pathway, morbidity, and harmfulness are limited and often overlooked, but from our clinical practice, hepatitis C patients are quite a lot, and the harm is also great! Therefore, as a senior infectious disease experts to draw attention to the existence of hepatitis C and the great harm! First, how high is the incidence of hepatitis C? According to the Ministry of Health and the national CDC’s epidemiological survey results, China’s hepatitis C population infection rate of about 3. 2%, about 1/3 of the hepatitis B virus surface antigen carriers, that is to say, there are about 30 million – 40 million hepatitis C infected people in our country, it is estimated that there are 50,000 people infected with hepatitis C in Pingxiang! The number is quite a lot! Second, what is the harm of hepatitis C? First of all, hepatitis C is contagious, can be transmitted from person to person, so that more people are infected; secondly, it is easy to become chronic hepatitis resulting in discomfort, liver function damage, affecting the life and work; the most terrible is that every year, about 3% – 4% of the patients with hepatitis C will be progressed to severe cirrhosis of the liver, about 1. 4% – 6. 9% of the liver will develop liver cancer! Especially our Pingxiang area itself is a high prevalence of hepatitis B, if infected with hepatitis C at the same time, more patients will progress to cirrhosis of the liver, liver cancer, our infectious disease hospitals are often admitted to hepatitis C or hepatitis B and C caused by advanced cirrhosis of the liver, liver cancer patients, and the loss of the best time for treatment! How is hepatitis C infected? Hepatitis C is mainly infected through blood, broken skin and mucous membrane, sexual contact, mother and child, etc. Specifically, unsafe blood collection, blood transfusion, injection, especially intravenous drug use, unprotected sexual contact, hepatitis C mother’s pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, unsafe tooth extraction, double eyelids, tattooing, illegal organ transplantation, etc. are more likely to be infected with hepatitis C! What are the discomforts of hepatitis C infection? If a large amount of unclean blood or blood products are imported in a short period of time, then low fever, poor appetite, yellow urine, general fatigue and other discomforts may occur, but in fact, most of the people don’t know when they are infected with hepatitis C. Therefore, most of the people don’t have any discomforts in the early stage, which is easy to be neglected, and most of the people can only be tracked down to hepatitis C after physical examination reveals the abnormality of liver function, ultrasound, CT, etc., and some of the people even have progressed to Cirrhosis, gastrointestinal bleeding and even liver cancer before knowing that hepatitis C is the culprit! How can hepatitis C be prevented? First of all, we should be clean, do not take drugs, pay attention to sexual safety; secondly, we should be safe injections, especially the use of safe blood and its products as well as implanted devices, eliminating the sale of blood; avoid tattoos and non-medical cosmetic; if the mother is a patient with hepatitis C, it must be in the infectious diseases under the guidance of a physician specializing in pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding. How to treat hepatitis C? Once infected with hepatitis C or hepatitis C infection of high-risk behaviors, must go to the infectious disease hospital for diagnosis and treatment, specialist physicians to make a comprehensive assessment of the condition of the patient to make a personalized standardized treatment, can make friends with hepatitis C to make the least amount of money to get the best therapeutic effect!