Hepatitis C: What Parents Need To Know
If you think that hepatitis C can affect only adults than you are wrong as hepatitis C can cause liver disease in children as well. This is why parents needs to be careful and take measures to prevent unsafe sexual intercourse so that they don’t transmit hepatitis C. If you are hepatitis C positive in your pregnancy time and then you have the risk to pass this virus to your newborn during childbirth irrespective of whether you are going for C section or vaginal birth. Following are the symptoms which will help you to become aware whether your child is infected by hepatitis C stomach pain diarrhea fever swelling in their legs tiredness bruising vomiting brown dark pee etc. If your child is hepatitis C positive then he or she run the risk of getting an enlarged spleen or liver. On the basis of your Child’s medical condition your doctor will give treatment options to your child. Blood tests is required for routine diagnosis of hepatitis C for your child. Some of the tes