Hepatitis C Health Center

If you have hepatitis C, there are certain precautions you should take to keep yourself and others as healthy as possible:

• Inform your sexual partners about your condition.
• Inform ALL your healthcare providers of your condition.
• Do not donate blood or blood products.
• Get Hepatitis A and B vaccinations.
• Do not drink alcohol.

Check with your doctor before taking any new medications, including over-the-counter ones such as acetaminophen (Tylenol). You may need a different dosage than indicated or not take them at all, depending on whether they could damage your liver.

Follow directions from your doctors about medications and tell them about any side effects you may experience.

Women with hepatitis C should discuss pregnancy with a doctor BEFORE getting pregnant. There is an extremely small chance of getting infected with hepatitis C from a sexual partner in a strictly monogamous relationship.

This risk is so small that condoms are not routinely advised to prevent hepatitis C infection.