Has anyone gotten Hep c from sex?

[yoyoma123]

I've heard is can be transmitted by sex. But here in medhelp everybody that is married an has 30 years married their partner doesn't get it. Can that data be wrong cause I haven't spoken to one person here that has gotten it through sex.

Has anyone gotten it through sex, please reply.

[James10500]

No I really never thought to get one or look for one.  I just trusted what Dr. Everson author of " Living with Hepatitis C " has told me. I think the correct term is in-active.  I'll look for a study.

It's not my business to tell anyone how they got Hep C.  I just have never heard of a confirmed case of a nail clipper.  Maybe that's naive.

[James10500]

http://www.nydailynews.com/lifestyle/health/2010/05/19/2010-05-19_hepatitis_c_can_lie_low_for_years_until_it_wreaks_havoc_with_your_liver.html

Another article

[Diane12855]

I seriously don't think the CDC would list it as a way of contracting HCV unless they had a good reason to believe that it was so. They tend to think it is kind of important to get their facts straight because every doctor in the country looks to them. Maybe you should read what they have to say about it.

Diane

[James10500]

I'm sure they have good reason.  I said I didn't know anyone who is a confirmed case of transmission via a nail clipper. I also said maybe I'm being naive.  I never said it wasn't possible.  I simply said "I wonder".

[James10500]

Here's what the CDC says

Transmission and Symptoms
How is HCV transmitted?
HCV is transmitted primarily through large or repeated percutaneous (i.e., passage through the skin) exposures to infectious blood, such as
Injection drug use (currently the most common means of HCV transmission in the United States)
Receipt of donated blood, blood products, and organs (once a common means of transmission but now rare in the United States since blood screening became available in 1992)
Needlestick injuries in health care settings
Birth to an HCV-infected mother
HCV can also be spread infrequently through
Sex with an HCV-infected person (an inefficient means of transmission)
Sharing personal items contaminated with infectious blood, such as razors or toothbrushes (also inefficient vectors of transmission)
Other health care procedures that involve invasive procedures, such as injections (usually recognized in the context of outbreaks)


It doesn't mention nail clippers.  Maybe you should have read what they actually do say.

[Trish77]

I think "dormant" is an inaccurate word to use.  Laying low is one thing, dormant is another.  It may seem like semantics but the implications of the words are entirely different.  "Dormant" means inactive.  Laying low indicates more of an undetected unnoticeable state.  I don't care for either term really but "laying low" is closer to the reality.  Hep C is never inactive.  It's just doing it's damage slowly and unnoticed - usually.  However it's not "dormant".

As for nail clippers, I think they're covered in the "such as" portion of:

"Sharing personal items contaminated with infectious blood, such as razors or toothbrushes (also inefficient vectors of transmission) "

Very inefficient to be sure but still enough of a concern that it's become standard practice to sterilize instruments used by manicurists and not to re-use them.  

I don't know if I've ever read of anyone who was able to confirm they got HCV from using someone else's toothbrush either but we still know it's possible.