Living Healthy with Hepatitis C - Natural and Conventional Approaches to Recover Your Quality of Life

Informationen zum Autor Harriet A. Washington  is the author of  Medical Apartheid , which won a National Book Critics Circle Award, the 2007 PEN Oakland Award, and the 2007 American Library Association Black Caucus Nonfiction Award. She has been a fellow in medical ethics at the Harvard Medical School, a senior research scholar at the National Center for Bioethics at Tuskegee University, a fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health, and the recipient of a John S. Knight Fellowship at Stanford University. She is the author of Infectious Madness, Deadly Monopolies, and Medical Apartheid.  Klappentext As many as four million Americans suffer from the hepatitis C virus (HCV), but most don't even know they're infected. Here at last is the unprecedented book that smashes the myths about the disease as it offers authoritative, lifesaving information you won't find anywhere else. Living Healthy with Hepatitis C is your ultimate weapon against the biggest killer of all: fear. Discover new hope and help in its pages as you learn a comprehensive approach that puts you back in control of your life! Protect yourself from acquiring HCV Protect your loved ones from contracting it if you are infected Benefit from the latest medical treatments, including interferon, ribavirin, and other drugs Learn the pros and cons of alternative treatments, including herbs, supplements, and acupuncture Use diet, lifestyle, and exercise as potent weapons against HCV Avoid its worst consequences, including cancer and liver failure Understand HCV, the medical treatments, lab tests, clinical trials, and much more Take advantage of the latest breakthroughs, including a possible "magic bullet" leading to a cure PLUS extensive resources, including books, organizations, websites, periodicals, and more Although the world is filled with suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. --Helen Keller, Optimism If you are holding this book because you or someone you love has hepatitis C, you may be deeply frightened. Don't be. For a disease that didn't even have a name until ten years ago, hepatitis C has created a lot of anxiety. But the true picture of the disease is not nearly so bleak as it has been painted. There are many steps you can take to help yourself to a long, full life with hepatitis C, or even to a cure. This book is intended as your map on that journey. The headlines may have already told you that Americans, still reeling from AIDS, are just beginning to realize that we are si-ting on an even greater viral time bomb--hepatitis C. The hepatitis C virus, or HCV, can cause serious disease of the liver. The virus enters the body through the blood and attacks the liver, causing it to deteriorate over long periods, as long as ten to forty years. You have read that hepatitis C can cause cirrhosis and liver cancer; in fact, hepatitis C is already responsible for most liver transplants performed in this country. Ten thousand Americans have already died of HCV, and by 2000, more people will die of hepatitis C than will die of AIDS. Unfortunately, the good news has gotten lost in all the terrifying articles about the "epidemic" of HCV. As opposed to the headline hyperbole, the real challenge of hepatitis C is not dying, but living--well--with the infection. Relatively few people-- 20 percent--develop life-threatening cirrhosis or liver cancer, the most-feared effects of hepatitis C. And even these can be treated. On the other hand, your chances of permanently ridding yourself of the virus with conventional medications that contain interferon are even lower--15 percent. This means that if you are infected with the hepatitis C virus, you are not likely to die. During a conference on hepatitis C held by the Centers for Disease Control in 1998, Dr. Leonard B. Seef, a senior scientist with the National Institutes of Health, told ...

Product details

• Authors: Harriet A Washington
• Publisher: Dell Publishing Inc.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 07.11.2000
• EAN: 9780440236085
• ISBN: 978-0-440-23608-5
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 114 mm x 178 mm x 13 mm