Hepatitis C result?

My friend's Hep C antibody showed 0.06 mIU/mL. Is she positive of hepatitis? Help!

Reference unit showed <1.0 mIU/mL NR

The doctors office wouldn't just give a number if there was a positive number, they would have to say you are positive for hep c. An antibody does not always mean there is an infection anyway, it can just mean there has been contact. Our bodies carry many antibodies, but it doesn't mean we have the disease. For example, I had a positive t.b. test, but not tuberculosous. I had just had the antobody show up. 25 years later, still no tb...Never worry unless the doctor says a test is positive...

Yes and no, they are probably going to want to repeat the test to verify it, maybe check or clinical symptoms, if she has any. She definitly has had Hep C at some point in her life as you only have an antibody to something if you were exposed to it once upon a time. So at some point she had an active infection.

Hep C however can be acute (short term) or chronic (long term) and it doesnt always go away. It actually can stay dormant in your liver for quite awhile. Like other have already said her doctor should be having a follow conversation with her.

Good luck!

You are probably referring to the HCV ratio, which shows up in values pretty close to what you are describing. If thats the case, anything less than 1.0 is normal. Since she showed 0.06 it looks like she is negative. However it looks like you are now talking about MLs and that test is not expressed in such terms. Not sure which antibody test you are referring to but if its the ratio it is def negative. Hope it helps.

Her doctor would have called her and told her that she had it if she did. Doctors wouldn't just send the results and not say positive. If she doesn't understand, she should call her doctor to have someone explain the results.

I am a HCV~SVR=sustained viral responder

my test shows <10 IU/mL that is as low as a clear HCV test can go..