This is especially important if you have multiple partners. Do not donate blood, organs, tissues, or semen. Inform all medical workers that you have a disease. Hepatitis C can be transmitted to your health-care provider through an accidental needle puncture. As with any kind of self-care, your treatment of hepatitis C will have a greater chance of success if you are also working with a physician who is open to alternatives.
Many infected adults develop flulike symptoms and jaundice, while children often show no symptoms.
However, the same self-care measures used for hepatitis C can support the liver as it heals. I also recommend the vaccine to people with hepatitis C, IV drug users, people with blood-clotting factors such as hemophilia, and sexually active gay men. Hepatitis B, which is transmitted primarily by blood products and sexual intercourse, infects some 300,000 people in the United States each year. In recent years, there has been a rising incidence among teens and young adults. Some infected persons show symptoms such as those for hepatitis A, but many are silent carriers.