| Hepatitis C is a type of hepatitis that causes liver | | | | lack of desire to eat, fatigue, severe itching, jaundice, |
| infection and is often referred to as 'asymptomatic' | | | | pain in abdomen and overall disposition as if the |
| by medical doctors as it seldom shows any | | | | patient has influenza. |
| symptoms at all. This disease is caused due to | | | | Chronic Hepatitis C - When the hepatitis virus |
| transmission of Hepatitis C virus. Although if initially | | | | infection persists for more than six months in a |
| treated Hepatitis C patients can get cured, but this | | | | particular patient he is said to have chronic Hepatitis |
| virus if left untreated can turn the disease chronic | | | | C. That usually happens if the treatment for hepatitis |
| which can cause fibrosis and cirrhosis, two harmful | | | | c is not applied. As chronic Hepatitis C has generally |
| conditions which can result in scarring of livers of the | | | | been found to be asymptomatic, in a number of |
| patient over a few years, if a treatment for hepatitis | | | | cases, the presence of HCV in a patient's body is |
| C is not applied. Fortunately, today we have a new | | | | detected completely by accident. |
| option to deal with this type of hepatitis, and it will | | | | So far data collected has suggested that while many |
| soon be a thing of the past. | | | | patients remain immune to displaying any signs of the |
| Hepatitis C was first discovered back in 1970s and | | | | infection until the phase comes when harmful scars |
| was officially confirmed by medical experts in 1981. It | | | | start appearing on the liver, others however show |
| is estimated that nearly 300 million people around the | | | | many medical conditions that are enough to raise the |
| globe have HCV infection. Medical surveys have | | | | suspicion that he or she is infected with HCV. Chronic |
| revealed that on average more than 36,000 | | | | Hepatitis C patients can exhibit conditions such as |
| American citizens annually get infected with Hepatitis | | | | influenza, exhaustion, loss of sleep and appetite, |
| C virus. The fact that Hepatitis C can only infect | | | | itching and vomiting and mental depression. |
| humans has made it hard for experts to conduct | | | | Is there a new treatment for hepatitis c?Yes, in |
| researches on Hepatitis C. There are two major | | | | 2009 a new herbal treatment was developed, which |
| classes of hepatitis C: | | | | was proven to quickly eliminate the Hepatitis C |
| Acute Hepatitis C - Experts have formulated the | | | | infection in a person's body. It simply supplies your |
| term 'acute' to refer to the initial six months after a | | | | body with the proper tools that it needs in order to |
| person gets infected with Hepatitis C virus. As | | | | fight off the disease. Since it is herbal, anyone can |
| mentioned before hepatitis patients often fail to | | | | apply it at home. The new treatment is yet to be |
| show any symptoms of the infection, and the same | | | | developed further by the medical companies, and |
| trend has been found with almost 70 percent of | | | | they will probably start manufacturing it in a pill form |
| patients suffering from acute hepatitis C. Those who | | | | in 2013. |
| show some suggestive signs generally experience | | | | |