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There is a saying that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. This saying is most relevant for people infected with the Hepatitis C virus since liver is not working properly and needs nutritional help.
One must not forget that breakfast sets the liver’s metabolic pace throughout the day ahead. A balanced combination of good carbohydrates, fiber, proteins, and vitamins and minerals is vital to ensure proper nutrition. This rule is no exception for the breakfast in the Hep C person.
A few reasons to conclude that a healthy, balanced, and nutritious breakfast is of vital importance for anyone infected with Hep C are the following:
Amino acids in the blood are a result of the protein metabolism in the liver and are essential building blocks that help your body create new and healthy liver cells.
When you are diagnosed with a Hepatitis C viral infection, time is of the essence to begin medical therapy. Delaying the beginning of therapy can increase the risk of further complications, reduce the odds of a cure, and can even lead to death.
Some years ago, when Interferon was the main prescription medication used to treat a Hepatitis C viral infection, physicians usually recommended to postpone the beginning of treatment until an advanced stage of the disease. Factors influencing a delay in the start of Interferon treatment included the long duration of self-injection Interferon treatment required to see a significant response along with its uncomfortable side effects, and its low rate of cure.
The answer to this question is unfortunately, NO. There is a consensus within the medical community that herbal supplements and other types of alternative medicine have still not been proven to cure the Hep C Virus.
Although supplements and alternative medicine does not offer a cure, it is good to say that some of these traditional remedies can help to alleviate some symptoms and discomfort before and during the treatment, and even can help the patients improve their immune system which is very important during the treatment period and for recovery.
First of all, the good news is that the odds of a Hep C virus cure have increased to levels nearly 90% for Genotype 1 when the patient is prescribed one or more of the latest anti Hep C viral medicines now available.
Some years ago the odds of cure were around 50%, and the treatment span ranged from 6 months to 1 year.
If you are infected with the Hepatitis C virus, it is absolutely normal that once in a while you would like to have a glass of wine with a friend or maybe drink a couple of beers while watching a sports game on TV.
In your case, since you have the hepatitis C virus in your system, alcohol consumption is an extremely bad choice for your liver and your health in general.
The rate of infection and genotypes prevalent in Asia are diverse across the various countries, nonetheless, genotype 6 is the most common type of the hepatitis virus found in the Asian region.
The prevalence of the virus also varies within countries showing figures as low as 0.5% in Honk Kong and Singapore to 6% in Vietnam and Thailand and almost a 10% in Myanmar China shows a prevalence rate of 2-3%, which translates to almost 30 million people infected with the Hepatitis C virus.
Infection with the Hepatitis C virus is the second cause of liver disease in the Middle East after Hepatitis B. Researches estimates that in the region there are around 170 million of people infected with the Hep C virus.
The viral infection numbers vary from one country to the other, and even between regions within the same country. In the poorest countries of the region, the main source of transmission is the reuse of needles and the blood transfusions done without the proper safety protocols.
There are a lot of new medication treatments now available that give a light of hope to people infected with the Hepatitis C virus. If you have been diagnosed with the virus, your doctor probably will count on one of these new prescription medications now available that may cure the disease and will greatly improve your life expectancy and quality of life.
Science is on your side, however, it is very important that any Hep C patient becomes as well informed as possible about these new advances in medication treatment especially in countries where there these medications are not readily available.
There is no a final answer and the answer depends on many factors, including, but not limited to, the stage of the damage to the liver and whether the person is co-infected with the HIV virus. Two main specialty physicians, with the best knowledge needed to treat patients infected with Hep C, are hepatologists (liver doctors) and gastroenterologists (abdominal doctors). The first one is consider a sub-specialty of the second one.
The liver has many different types of cells, however, the primary type found are hepatocytes that compose around 80% of the total cells of the organ. These hepatocytes are the cells which usually become cancerous under certain conditions.
Scarring or cirrhosis of the liver, usually caused by viral Hepatitis B and C., are two of the primary causes of liver cancer.