| tis C is a very serious condition that can actually | | | | give hepatitis C patients interferon, because this drug is |
| damage your liver very badly. This type of hepatitis, | | | | a kind of protein that can help fight the infection that |
| hepatitis C is the most frightening of all hepatitis types | | | | you have. All people have interferon in their organism, |
| and it can very easily lead to liver cancer of even liver | | | | so by taking this hepatitis C treatment you will have |
| failure. There are treatments available for hepatitis C, | | | | more interferon that you would normally do. This drug |
| but many of them are not right for you. What a | | | | used to cure hepatitis C can be found in the form of a |
| hepatitis C patient must do is go to a doctor and | | | | shot. |
| discuss together with him/ her the right hepatitis | | | | The second hepatitis C treatment is with interferon |
| treatment for him/ her. | | | | and ribavirin. Ribavirin is a drug that can fight some |
| When you use a treatment for hepatitis C, try to keep | | | | types of viruses, including the hepatitis C virus. This |
| in mind that there are three very important things that | | | | medicine come in the form of a pill, that the hepatitis C |
| a hepatitis treatment tryes to do. The first thing is to | | | | patient can swallow. Alone, ribavirin has no effect |
| completely remove the hepatitis C virus from your | | | | against hepatitis C virus, but together with interferon it |
| organism, then to slow down, stop if possible the | | | | can work miracles. To make sure that the hepatitis |
| damaging of your liver and last but not least to remove | | | | treatment that you are taking has any affect on you, |
| all the hepatitis C symptoms that you have and thus | | | | your doctors will take blood samples before you start |
| make you feel a lot better. There are two types of | | | | the hepatitis treatment, during this hepatitis C treatment |
| hepatitis C treatment that have been aproved since | | | | and of course after you have finished the hepatitis |
| now by the doctors. The first hepatitis C treatment is | | | | treatment. Then your doctor will run some tests on the |
| with interferon or with pegylated interferon alone, with | | | | blood samples and tell you how your body is |
| no other combination and the second hepatitis C | | | | responding to the hepatitis C treatment. There are |
| treatment is interferon combined with ribavirin. Doctors | | | | cases where this hepatitis C treatment will not work. |