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There is no immunization for hepititis c. for hep B and A there is. kids get a shot for that in the 7th grade here in ontario.

it is only transmitted from blood to blood. You can't catch it by kissing or hugging or even drinking or eating after the person. The only precaustions that we take (and it's all the norm now) is that he has his own toothpaste and puts it in his drawer with his toothbrush, we use protection when we're intimate (even though it's only a 2% chance of transmitting it sexually), and I don't clean his cuts and scrapes anymore like I used to. We were together the whole time that he's had hep c and didn't find out until about 10 years into our relationship. I remember when he got that tatoo! We were together for a couple years already then. The kids and I never got it and we didn't use any kind of protection then, we didn't know and we still were safe. Goes to show that it isn't transmitted easy. It's very common for people who are needle users and people who get tatoos. anything that's blood to blood.

Hubby had to change his whole way of eating and completely cut alcohol out of his life. He still smokes and drinks coffee which he shouldn't but it hasn't seemed to affect the hep c too much because he's as healthy as he was in the first place. He hasn't lost any muscle mass either. I'm not sure if losing that is part of the disease?