My girlfriend is sick with hepatitis C virus and becomes pregnant. I am wondering how to avoid unwanted effects during pregnancy, both for the child and for the mother? What should I do? She was 27 years and first pregnancy and infection through kapilnitsu, fatal accident ....

Respond Tatyana Stepanova, a gastroenterologist, hepatologist During pregnancy, the activity of hepatitis is usually reduced. For mothers presence of hepatitis C virus during pregnancy is rarely a devastating effect on health. The probability of transmission depends on the amount of the child in his blood, if the viral load of more than 10 * 6 copies per 1 ml blood, 30% of cases the virus is transmitted infant. This process can not affect, because antiviral drugs are contraindicated during pregnancy. Similar question: My girlfriend is pregnant but unee obnaruzheli hepatitis C, what to do and mozhnoli her baby?