Dialysis as a possibility of infection | Hepatitis C Causes and Treatmen

Dialysis as a possibility of infection

The risk of hepatitis infection due to virus transmission via dialysis is comparatively high. Modern sterilization procedures for the equipment and blood tests of the patients significantly reduced the risk of hepatitis C transmission. However, 10 percent of dialysis patients still suffer from hepatitis C. Together with drug addicts who take their drugs through the vein and are infected to 90%, they belong to the patient group with the highest risk of infection.

Infection via breast milk?

Whether breast milk can be responsible for virus transmission remains a controversial topic in circles of researchers. Some studies showed that breast milk can contain viruses, while others were unable to make this observation. Whether from it now an infection danger for the child develops remains unfortunately still uncertain.

The researchers are itself however united with the topic that an infection can take place during the birth and that a high virus load in the blood of the nut/mother strengthens this risk. A Caesarean section helps to keep this risk as small as possible.