Skip to main content
Like
Create new Glog
previous
next
Email share
276 views | 0 likes | 0 reposts
WANTED
Hepatitis C
-sharing needles. -getting pricked with a needle that has infected blood on it (hospital workers can get hepatitis C this way) -having sex with an infected person, especially if you or your partner has other sexually transmitted diseases -being born to a mom with hepatitis C
This is the classic symptom of hepatitis C. The yellow stuff you see is a bunch of chemicals in the bodys tissues. The liver usually thinks this chemical is a waste product, but when the liver is damaged from hepatitis it can not do its normal job and the chemical builds up in the blood and starts to leak out into body tissue(such as the eyes).
Jaundice
What is Hepatitis?
Hepatitis causes the liver to become inflamed, which interferes with its ability to function. Hepatitis C is considered to be among the most serious out of all the hepatitis viruses.
Rate on the danger scale?
9, because Hepatitis C can be very fatal.
It is estimated that there are approximately 19,000 people that are infected with Hepatitis C each year in the U.S.
How it attacks?
It often spends decades quietly damaging the liver, until a victim’s only hope for survival is an organ transplant.
Hepatitis infects your liver.
Hepatitis Hideout?
There is no vaccine for hepatitis C.
Leads to liver Cancer
Although hepatitis C hurts the liver, 80% of people with the it do not have symptoms. But, with the people that do have symptoms may not appear for 10-20 years. Even then, the symptoms usually come and go and are pretty mild. Unfortunately, by the time symptoms appear, the damage may be very really really serious.
Symptoms
