TODAY if you have health problems such as fever, pain in the right side of the body, weakness, lethargy or so, you should immediately consult a doctor.
This is because of the problems you may be infected with an unknown disease is there and there were times when it has reached a chronic stage.
As the disease hepatitis C, it is difficult to detect infection by the patient's own because it always strikes without bringing specific symptoms or prolonged.
The disease is also categorized as a silent killer because many patients do not know they are infected themselves until many years but there is a reach tens of years.
Based on statistics from the World Health Organization (WHO), 60 percent to 70 percent of hepatitis C patients will suffer from chronic liver disease, while five percent to 20 percent will suffer from cirrhosis, while one per cent to five per cent will die from cirrhosis or liver cancer.
"Because the disease is categorized as silent killer, you out there are encouraged to perform a blood test to detect the disease.
"This is due to hepatitis C through a blood test and can be detected early confirmation of the disease.
"And it should be noted these diseases affect people of any gender and age," he said when met recently.
He added that, even if a blood test can detect the presence of hepatitis C virus easily, but most people today refuse to do so.
It is not only due to infection can be transmitted even if the patients taking one drug, blood transfusion, alcohol consumption, unhealthy sexual habits as well as by injection such as body piercing, tattooing (tattoo) and drug injection.
Apart from that, they are at high risk for this disease are those who have excess weight, people with diabetes and hypertension patients.
Usually there are seven types of hepatitis viruses detected worldwide, the virus hepatitis A, B, C, D, E, F and G.
However, viruses that are commonly found are hepatitis A and E.
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