The worst is that the symptoms and signs of hepatitis C in women, however, men quite often proceeds unnoticed. In such cases, to determine the presence of the virus in the human body only by blood biochemical analysis.
However, quite often, the disease still makes itself felt, and this allows you to proceed immediately to treatment. What is the first signs of hepatitis?
Hepatitis C is one of the most common types of serious and dangerous disease that has a lot of different types and forms, which differ in the symptoms and signs of the disease.
What is hepatitis C?
Unfortunately, most often this disease are young people. Often the hepatitis virus manifests itself in infancy, while completely asymptomatic. And no matter how it was sad, the disease progresses and affects an increasing number of people.
Infection can be transmitted several ways: through the blood, along with breast milk, sexually transmitted. Most often, the infection occurs by blood transfusion or non-sterile syringes. So before you contact any medical center or beauty salon, you should make sure their responsible approach to the issue of sterility and precautions.
The disease is very dangerous – almost 80% are infected With hepatitis C may not fully recover, resulting in the disease becomes chronic. If time does not begin treatment, may develop cancer or cirrhosis of the liver with a fatal outcome.
Unfortunately, today there is no vaccine that can help in the fight against hepatitis C. However, modern medical scientists have developed a number of methods through which you can improve the health and alleviate the course of disease.
Hepatitis C in men occurs as often as in women. But women face more severe consequences of infection.
Signs of hepatitis in women
The symptoms of hepatitis C in women may not occur for many years. The disease shows no obvious signs and only in the case of any other disease when in the course of treatment it seems to the biochemical analysis of blood, may be suspected for the presence of virus in the body. Otherwise, the liver can break down asymptomatic for 20 years.
What are the first symptoms you should pay attention to?
Among frequency of symptoms are the following:
- fatigue, sleep disturbance;
- periodic, not too intense pain in the joints and other parts of the body;
- the increase in temperature, tingling;
- jaundice, General malaise.
Stages of liver damage
All of these symptoms can be the cause of other diseases, and to accompany the menopause.
What are the symptoms in men?
The symptoms of hepatitis C in men are very similar to female. Among them are the following:
- skin rash;
- chills;
- anorexia;
- scabies;
- nervousness;
- the decreased performance.
Hepatitis has several different forms and depending on the stage of the disease, signs of hepatitis C in men, as well as the symptoms in women can be different.
The chronic form
To determine hepatitis C without a thorough medical examination is very difficult. It is more hidden than other types of this disease. Therefore, almost all patients infected with this virus, they find out about it after the onset of chronic, able to progress from 10 to 20 years. However, some symptoms you can pay attention.
Chronic hepatitis symptoms has the following:
- urine brown or dark yellow;
- periodic pain in the muscles;
- slightly yellowed skin;
- disease of the joints;
- scabies.
In the case where treatment is not available, chronic disease is exacerbated and the symptoms of hepatitis appear thus:
- in the chest, face and shoulders observed vascular mesh;
- blush palms;
- muscles contract involuntarily;
- discomfort and bulge in the abdominal area;
- impaired memory and concentration;
- visible manifestation of jaundice on the skin;
- yellowed whites of the eyes.
Other forms of hepatitis
The acute form. After the incubation period of acute infectious diseases may be around twenty six weeks, and then become chronic. Usually, the acute form asymptomatic.
Sometimes you can see these first signs of hepatitis, such as headache, nausea, dizziness, severe itching of the whole body or some its parts. It happens a little less often fever, lack of appetite, distress and discomfort in the digestive tract.
Drug-induced hepatitis occurs as a result of lesions of the liver with toxins and drugs. As a rule, this disease is accompanied by fever, disorders of the gastrointestinal tract, dizziness and rashes on the skin.
Form of autoimmune hepatitis may develop on the background of a sharp decline in immunity. As a rule, most often it occurs in women during menopause. With symptoms such as malaise, colitis, skin rash, itching, a deep sense of gravity under the right rib.
The most dangerous factor of HCV is that the virus can develop in the human body for many years, not appearing, and then to Express themselves serious complications. So you should try more often to pay attention to their health and find time to attend a full medical examination. Because of this may depend on the duration and quality of life.
