World Hepatitis Day 2023

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) Is a virus that causes hepatitis (Hepatitis). If the patient is infected, they may not show any symptoms or have only mild symptoms. Until chronic damage occurs that leads to cirrhosis and liver cancer. (Hepatocellular carcinoma, HCC) can cause liver failure.

In the past year 2019 The World Health Organization (World Health Organization, WHO) estimated the number of people infected with this virus to be as many as 58 million people worldwide. of which only 13 percent received treatment. For surveys in Thailand in 2014 and 2015, the number of infected people was found to be 0.39 and 0.7 percent of the population, respectively.

Who is at risk of touching it? Hepatitis C ?

• Drug users who inject drugs
• People who receive blood transfusions or organ transplant first 1992
• Children born to mothers infected with hepatitis C virus
• People who have used equipment that has the potential to come into contact with blood and/or secretions with patients infected with hepatitis C
• People infected with HIV. or infected with the hepatitis B virus.
• Patients with cirrhosis or chronic hepatitis of unknown cause

Be aware. Can be prevented

• Screening for hepatitis C if you are in a high-risk group.
• Use condoms every time you have sex.
• Do not use syringes, tattoo needles, or pierce your body with shared needles.
• Avoid sharing personal equipment such as razors and nail clippers.
• In people infected with hepatitis virus. You should refrain from drinking alcohol. for effective treatment

Although hepatitis C has developed treatment methods until it can be completely cured. including the development of new antiviral drugs or drugs in the interferon group But preventing infection is the best.

On the occasion ofWorld Hepatitis Day or 28 July this year We would like to invite everyone to join in the preliminary hepatitis screening. Because until the abnormality is found Our liver may already be damaged a lot.

Best wishes from BDMS Wellness Clinic

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Reference list

• World Health Organization. Updated recommendations on treatment of adolescents and children with chronic HCV infection, and HCV simplified service delivery and diagnostics [Internet]. 2022 Oct 17 [2023 May 22]. Available from: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240052734
• Songyot Pilasan, Pattara Leelawarong, Disorn Kulphokhin. Project to synthesize policy proposals on the budget for the use of formula medicine. sofosbuvir/velpatasvir In the treatment of all strains of chronic hepatitis C in Thailand. Nonthaburi: Health Systems Research Institute (NHRI); 2020.
• Liver Disease Association of Thailand. Guidelines for the care of patients with chronic hepatitis C in Thailand, 2018. 1st printing. Nonthaburi: Phapphim Co., Ltd.; 2018.

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