Comments on: The Danger of Hepatitis C http://www.healthoma.com/the-danger-of-hepatitis-c/ Healthoma.com is where we discuss about different health related topics like diseases, hygiene, fitness, drugs and also medicine and human body anatomy and the problems and diseases that human body different organs can have. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:50:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Kirk Hanna http://www.healthoma.com/the-danger-of-hepatitis-c/#comment-22730 Kirk Hanna Sat, 01 Dec 2007 02:14:15 +0000 http://www.healthoma.com/the-danger-of-hepatitis-c/#comment-22730 I have to agree with the other comment, Hep C is not so easily handled to say that it is able to be cleared up in under a year. It often is a much more serious and longer process and there is only a 50% success rate for the most common treatment and for the most common genotype in the US. Other genotypes have a higher success rate but they are in the minority here. It is a lifestyle disease and it is in changing the lifestyle that symptoms and effects can be minimized while treatment is considered. The side effects must be weighed heavily against the slow progression of the disease in a person the does all the right things too. Kirk Hanna http://hepatitiscsymptoms.blogspot.com/ I have to agree with the other comment, Hep C is not so easily handled to say that it is able to be cleared up in under a year. It often is a much more serious and longer process and there is only a 50% success rate for the most common treatment and for the most common genotype in the US. Other genotypes have a higher success rate but they are in the minority here.

It is a lifestyle disease and it is in changing the lifestyle that symptoms and effects can be minimized while treatment is considered. The side effects must be weighed heavily against the slow progression of the disease in a person the does all the right things too.

Kirk Hanna
http://hepatitiscsymptoms.blogspot.com/

]]> By: mitch http://www.healthoma.com/the-danger-of-hepatitis-c/#comment-3490 mitch Wed, 11 Apr 2007 07:35:55 +0000 http://www.healthoma.com/the-danger-of-hepatitis-c/#comment-3490 This is good information in regard to prevention. As for treating and coming out clean in a year; I don't think this a realistic assesmnet and many prescribed treatment sfor hepatitis c create unrecoverable side effects that many deam to be worse than the disease. This is good information in regard to prevention. As for treating and coming out clean in a year; I don’t think this a realistic assesmnet and many prescribed treatment sfor hepatitis c create unrecoverable side effects that many deam to be worse than the disease.

]]> By: Lynne Eldridge M.D. http://www.healthoma.com/the-danger-of-hepatitis-c/#comment-694 Lynne Eldridge M.D. Mon, 05 Mar 2007 23:07:09 +0000 http://www.healthoma.com/the-danger-of-hepatitis-c/#comment-694 Thank you for addressing this under-diagnosed, but significant problem! C. Everett Koop, Former U.S. Surgeon General stated "We stand at the precipice of a grave threat to our public health...It affects people from all walks of life, in every state, in every country. And unless we do something about it soon, it will kill more people than AIDS. Hepatitis C is currently the number one cause of liver cancer as well as liver transplants in the United States. It is felt that 1.8 percent of the population is infected with hepatitis C, and the majority of people do not have symptoms until significant liver disease is present. If you or a sexual partner had a blood transfusion prior to 1989, have ever used IV drugs, or have a history of abnormal liver function tests request a test for hepatitis C. Treatment is available that may lower risk. For further information, check out <a href="http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/hepatitisc.html" rel="nofollow">www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/hepatitisc.html</a> Lynne Eldridge M.D. Author, "Avoiding Cancer One Day At A Time" <a href="http://www.avoidcancernow.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.avoidcancernow.com</a> Thank you for addressing this under-diagnosed, but significant problem!

C. Everett Koop, Former U.S. Surgeon General stated “We stand at the precipice of a grave threat to our public health…It affects people from all walks of life, in every state, in every country. And unless we do something about it soon, it will kill more people than AIDS.

Hepatitis C is currently the number one cause of liver cancer as well as liver transplants in the United States.

It is felt that 1.8 percent of the population is infected with hepatitis C, and the majority of people do not have symptoms until significant liver disease is present.

If you or a sexual partner had a blood transfusion prior to 1989, have ever used IV drugs, or have a history of abnormal liver function tests request a test for hepatitis C. Treatment is available that may lower risk.

For further information, check out http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/hepatitisc.html

Lynne Eldridge M.D.
Author, “Avoiding Cancer One Day At A Time”
http://www.avoidcancernow.com

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