Hepatitis C Virus And Ways To Diagnose The Disease

Hepatitis C virus and ways to diagnose the disease

When we talk about hepatitis C we refer to an infectious viral disease that mainly causes the liver to inflate, which can often cause serious liver damage. The propagation of this virus occurs through a blood that is already contaminated.

It has not been much time, since this infection was treated by the intake of medicines and injections that had to be applied weekly, but because of other problems in the organism or certain side effects that were not correct, people could not followWith this type of control.

Today, things have already changed. Currently, the VHC virus is acute or even chronic, I could have the possibility of healing through the ingestion of oral medications in a period of two up to six months, during every day.

However, according to studies and statistical data carried out, it has been possible to estimate that, approximately half of all patients with the HCV virus have no idea that they suffer from the infection, due in the first instance to have no symptoms, sinceThese can even take decades to present themselves. Therefore, all centers dedicated to control and prevent diseases are always recommending that a blood test be practiced once to anyone who shows a high probability of acquiring said infection. It is also said that the first risk population is that formed by every individual who was born between 1945 to 1965, since it is a group possibly with five times more likely to make the infection, by far of the people who were bornIn different years.

It should be noted that the hepatitis C virus can change from a type of disease that would only be mild and last a few weeks, to a serious pathology that could be forever;Hence its classification as acute or chronic.

Ways to diagnose hepatitis C

When there is a person who presents reasons, reasons or is in a state that makes him doubt about a possible infection of hepatitis C, he would have to immediately address where his doctor or health professional, so that he requested aBlood examination or analysis, which would be the most accurate technique of knowing if any individual has infected with said virus. In short, the execution of this process will allow to locate through the blood a certain type of antibodies that would face the hepatitis C virus.

For the diagnosis of this infection, two stages must be followed:

• Performing a serological exam to detect anti-VHC.

Our body has the ability to produce and generate antibodies that have the ability to find and destroy all kinds of molecules that they consider "strange". In the case of the hepatitis C virus, the antibodies produced will be very specific for this disease. Given to this, if anti-VHC in the blood was detected, we could say that this individual has been in relation to said virus.

It must be emphasized that the body can take, up to two months to give production to these antibodies. Therefore it is very likely that if this process is carried out during this period of time, these agents cannot be complicated or not being able to find this technique again before six months have passed.

If by chance this test comes positive, then it is necessary to go quickly to the second stage.

• (PCR) or the polymerase chain reaction test.

Although in the first instance there is the presence of antibodies in the body of a person, this is not sufficient reason to confirm that in short, such disease is already suffered, since it may be that it has contracted the virus, but in the same wayThis could have overcome the infection.

In this case, the final test that will allow us to reach a conclusion, is the measurement of the HBR RNA that is in the blood, that is, to measure the virus gene. And if the result of this procedure is positive, now the infection by this hepatitis could be confirmed in the person.

Through this test, you can also identify:

1. What is the virus genotype in infection.
2. The viral load

In addition to this diagnosis, the doctor could also suggest an exam to blood transaminases. In itself, transaminases would be a type of enzyme manufactured by the body at the time of inflammation of the liver, so they can help identify the presence of a possible infection.

Finally, a liver biopsy can be a practice recommended by the doctor, as long as the presence of infection and its genotype is known. Through this method you can know the level or degree of injury that the liver has, based on both inflammation and scars that arise.

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