How to Detect and Treat Hepatitis C
There are millions of people in the world, walking around with Hepatitis C and don't know it! There are over 170 million people worldwide infected. You contract Hepatitis C the same way you get any blood borne disease. Here is some basic information about how to treat Hepatitis C and it's detection.
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Hepatitis C: Hepatitis C is a viral infection which attack the liver. Some symptoms may be the same as flu symptom, but leave you with prolonged fatigue, stomach pain, low grade fever, thin formed yellow, or light colored stool. Symptoms of Hepatitis C are many times silent, there for go for years undetected.
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Hepatitis C Testing: The best way to determine if you have contracted Hepatitis C is through blood testing. You can get tested at your doctor's office or any health clinic.
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Test Results: Your test results will determine if you have hepatitis C and how much of the virus is in your blood. A 200,000 to 1,000,000 low and above 25,000,000 very high. This test may be an indication of whether or not you have suffered any liver damage.
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Chronic Hepatitis C: It is important to have yearly physical that can early detect disease. Those with chronic Hepatitis C can be non-symptomatic or very have very little symptoms. Hepatitis C is a very slow progressing disease, but it you treat hepatitis C early, it can eliminate the disease with little instance of relapse.
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Treatment: Hepatitis C has been treated with, Interferon, which has to be taken from 8 to 12 months. Interferon has many sever side effects, which make many patients to stop taking it. Rebetron, combined with ribavirin capsules, lessens the length of time one has to receive interferon injection alone.
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Other Drug Treatments for Hepatitis C: There are other drugs and combination of drugs used in the treatment of Hepatitis C that have been very successful. Depending on type or geno-type of the virus you have, you may have a geno-type that is more resistant to certain drugs.
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