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Posted on November 13, 2007 by Graham Lavery | Posted under Health
Hepatitis - How To Recognize Hepatitis C
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When this is the case, the disease can manifest in strange ways. It simply does not seem that the person with chronic hepatitis C is suffering from something. There are case when people with chronic hepatitis C did not feel a thing for about ten years. Also, their liver did not know any reactions or modifications because of the disease. In such cases, only when a blood test is being run for different reasons, the disease is discovered. The symptoms do not hesitate to appear in other people. Those that feel extremely tired all the time, without apparent reasons, with low appetite and suffering from diarrhea may be ill with chronic hepatitis C. Also, a low fever is felt by these patients. Among other symptoms, the sufferer experiences nausea, abdominal pain, a feeling of tenderness in the upper body. A yellowish tint in the eyes and the skin can also be noticed in these ill people. The worst effect from chronic hepatitis C is liver damage, also known as cirrhosis. The liver is damaged forever and the disease lives scars on it, while its functions suffer greatly. The patients with chronic hepatitis C develop this kind of complication in many years, the duration being able to go up till twenty years. Liver cancer can also occur, but only about five percent of those suffering from chronic hepatitis C can develop the disease and this happens in twenty to forty years. People with cirrhosis are more likely to get liver cancer and it takes about seventeen years for the disease to occur. A good method to get rid of hepatitis C is with the help of transplants. Actually, most of the liver transplants made every year in the United States have such a cause. Around ten thousand people die every year because of hepatitis C. Even if many studies have been made to discover and effective cure or vaccine against hepatitis C, nothing was discovered. The infection in the human body that has hepatitis C mutates and it is impossible to invent a vaccine that can follow all of its mutations. In order to prevent hepatitis C, it is important to avoid contracting the virus in the first place. About The Author: Graham Lavery is the Editor and Publisher of Article Click. For more FREE articles for your ezine and websites visit - www.articleclick.com |
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