During the pregnancy I was diagnosed with hepatitis C carrier I gave birth to a little over a week ago. Breast feeding. Yesterday got a call from the children's clinic, they came to testing my daughter from the hospital - she had hepatitis C antibodies is strictly forbidden to breastfeed. I always read that breastfeeding can be that through the milk virus is not transmitted. What should I do? How to be in this situation? Where can I go? Can you then - some advise?

Respond Tatyana Stepanova, a gastroenterologist, hepatologist You're right, there is no virus in the milk, but the mouth of the child and on the skin of the nipple may be formed microdamages and cracks, causing the blood the virus can pass from you to the child. For this reason, breast-feeding, we do not recommend. If the RNA in a child is not found, then the antibodies disappear on their own, usually to a year of baby's life. Similar question: ... in such assays can breastfeed your baby or not ... ...