Spontaneous cure rate of hepatitis C in newborns

Some children will develop hepatitis C after birth. This is a relatively serious liver disease. The main cause of neonatal liver disease is mother-to-child transmission. Vertical transmission from mother to child leads to infection, which is a great hazard to the child's health. Generally speaking, the child will not be able to recover on his own. Of course, hepatitis C is different from hepatitis B. The cure rate of hepatitis C is relatively high.

Spontaneous cure rate of hepatitis C in newborns

Hepatitis C is a disease caused by hepatitis C virus infection. This disease can be transmitted through sexual intercourse, blood transmission, and vertical transmission from mother to child. The possibility of self-healing after infection is relatively small, usually not more than 10%. If a baby is found to have hepatitis C, pay attention to regular examinations of liver function and liver and gallbladder B-ultrasound. When the baby is older, you can consider using interferon to fight the virus.

How Hepatitis C is Transmitted

Nowadays, many people have a better understanding of the transmission routes of hepatitis B. In fact, the transmission route of hepatitis C is somewhat similar to that of hepatitis B. The main transmission methods include sexual transmission, mother-to-child transmission, blood transmission, and transmission through broken skin and mucous membranes. From a clinical perspective, there are two possibilities for a child to be infected with hepatitis C at birth: one is that the child is infected with hepatitis C due to pollution of the delivery environment, unclean instruments, etc. The second is mother-to-child transmission, in which case the child's mother may have hepatitis C. With the improvement of modern medical environment, mother-to-child transmission leading to neonatal infection is more likely. Because normal kissing, hugging, sneezing, coughing, food, sharing tableware and drinking cups, etc. will not spread hepatitis C.

Judging from the medical treatment situation, many hepatitis C patients, especially infants and young children infected with hepatitis C at birth, are mostly discovered through physical examinations, because most hepatitis C patients do not have any symptoms.

If hepatitis C is infected in adults, it is likely to become a chronic disease, leading to adverse consequences such as liver malignancy. However, hepatitis C in newborns is often self-limiting, which means that the child may recover on his own as he grows up. If the disease does not heal on its own and you still have hepatitis C, you can be treated with interferon. Currently, the cure rate after one year of treatment with interferon is very high. Therefore, this drug is mostly used in clinical treatment of hepatitis C. When a hepatologist treats hepatitis C in a newborn, he will advise parents to observe the baby first and refuse to give the newborn any medication for hepatitis C.

In addition, unlike hepatitis B, hepatitis C is a disease with a high cure rate. Once the diagnosis is confirmed, treatment should be aggressively pursued. Especially when you become ill as an adult, you should take the initiative to go to the hospital for treatment. Children with hepatitis C can be vaccinated with hepatitis B vaccine, and the vaccination should be timely. During the vaccination process, some children may experience symptoms such as redness and swelling at the vaccination site. These are normal immune reactions and parents do not need to be nervous.