Hepatitis C
Medically Reviewed by: Dr. Bautista
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Updated on: November 16, 2019
Hepatitis C is an infection caused by a virus that attacks the liver and leads to inflammation. Most people infected with the hepatitis C virus (HCV) have no symptoms. In fact, most people don’t know they have the hepatitis C infection until liver damage presents, decades later, during routine medical tests.
Hepatitis C is one of several hepatitis viruses, and is generally considered to be among the most serious. Hepatitis C is passed through contact with contaminated blood.
Hepatitis C symptoms include:
- Fatigue
- Nausea or poor appetite
- Stomach pain
- Dark-colored urine
- Yellow discoloration in the skin and eyes (jaundice)
- Fever
- Muscle and joint pains
- Bleeding easily
- Bruising easily
- Itchy skin
- Fluid accumulation in your abdomen (ascites)
- Swelling in your legs
- Weight loss
- Confusion, drowsiness and slurred speech (hepatic encephalopathy)
- Spider-like blood vessels on your skin (spider angiomas)
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