Gov. Kathleen Sebelius declared hepatitis day with the release of book “winning the hepatitis C’ by Dr. Shekhar Challa. Many of the books were donated to the Kansas Department of Health, Environment and other Kansas libraries and health agencies. Still many of the people are distant with the knowledge on Hepatitis C.
Hepatitis C is an infectious disease which attacks your liver due to HCV (hepatitis C virus). This disease is quite silent in nature, since the symptoms vary under different situations. The biggest problem one may come across is the awareness about this disease.
Once symptoms begin to generate in a patient’s blood, the chronic infection leads to damage of the liver which is quite visible in few years. People who take alcohol are more prone to the risk of hepatitis C. Not all of the cases are easily cured, since there is not any particular vaccine which could set the patient free of disease. Yet you can consider the following points to smell the rat:
1. Blood: Those who have had or blood product transfusion are likely to have fallen a prey to this disease.
2. History: Those who have served in military or have the background of drug abuse or intranasal cocaine use may grow Hepatitis C. Apart from this Health care force, firefighters or those rescuing in the times of emergency also may develop the symptoms.
3. Skin contact: People who have a tattoo or any body piercing through an unidentified source may develop it.
These are the symptoms found in patients detected with Hepatitis C after blood test. The patients of long term dialysis are also detected with HVC. There is no permanent cure as such but the patients who suffer from this disease are vaccinated for hepatitis A and B to save them from worsening consequences.
There are basically two forms in which hepatitis may occur; first one is the acute hepatitis which appears for 6months after HCV has developed an infection. The rate of developing symptoms is usually very low in 60% to 70% of people until it is found that direct access to blood stream has is the cause behind the infection. Other one is Chronic hepatitis C which refers to an infection with HCV which persisting for more than six months. It is detected with usual checkups only, since it is asymptomatic.
There is much more than the above mentioned information on Hepatitis C. You may find ample of it in medical books and internet but to understand its root and cut off the branches, you may read the book by Mr. Challa on hepatitis C. It reader friendly so as a common man can understand it.
Hepatitis C is an infectious disease which attacks your liver due to HCV (hepatitis C virus). This disease is quite silent in nature, since the symptoms vary under different situations. The biggest problem one may come across is the awareness about this disease.
Once symptoms begin to generate in a patient’s blood, the chronic infection leads to damage of the liver which is quite visible in few years. People who take alcohol are more prone to the risk of hepatitis C. Not all of the cases are easily cured, since there is not any particular vaccine which could set the patient free of disease. Yet you can consider the following points to smell the rat:
1. Blood: Those who have had or blood product transfusion are likely to have fallen a prey to this disease.
2. History: Those who have served in military or have the background of drug abuse or intranasal cocaine use may grow Hepatitis C. Apart from this Health care force, firefighters or those rescuing in the times of emergency also may develop the symptoms.
3. Skin contact: People who have a tattoo or any body piercing through an unidentified source may develop it.
These are the symptoms found in patients detected with Hepatitis C after blood test. The patients of long term dialysis are also detected with HVC. There is no permanent cure as such but the patients who suffer from this disease are vaccinated for hepatitis A and B to save them from worsening consequences.
There are basically two forms in which hepatitis may occur; first one is the acute hepatitis which appears for 6months after HCV has developed an infection. The rate of developing symptoms is usually very low in 60% to 70% of people until it is found that direct access to blood stream has is the cause behind the infection. Other one is Chronic hepatitis C which refers to an infection with HCV which persisting for more than six months. It is detected with usual checkups only, since it is asymptomatic.
There is much more than the above mentioned information on Hepatitis C. You may find ample of it in medical books and internet but to understand its root and cut off the branches, you may read the book by Mr. Challa on hepatitis C. It reader friendly so as a common man can understand it.
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