Homeopathy Treatment For Hepatitis C
Overview
Hepatitis C is a viral infection that causes liver swelling, called inflammation. Hepatitis C can lead to serious liver damage. The hepatitis C virus (HCV) spreads through contact with blood that has the virus in it.
Newer antiviral medicines are the treatment of choice for most people with the ongoing, called chronic, hepatitis C infection. These medicines often can cure chronic hepatitis C.
But many people with hepatitis C don’t know they have it. That’s mainly because symptoms can take decades to appear. So, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommends that all adults ages 18 to 79 years be screened for hepatitis C.
Screening is for everyone, even those who don’t have symptoms or known liver disease.
Symptoms
Every long-term hepatitis C infection starts with what’s called an acute phase. Acute hepatitis C usually isn’t diagnosed because it rarely causes symptoms. When there are symptoms in this phase, they may include jaundice, fatigue, nausea, fever and muscle aches.
Long-term infection with the hepatitis C virus is called chronic hepatitis C. Chronic hepatitis C usually has no symptoms for many years. Symptoms appear only after the virus damages the liver enough to cause them.
Symptoms can include:
- Bleeding easily.
- Bruising easily.
- Fatigue.
- Not wanting to eat.
- Yellowing of the skin, called jaundice. This might show up more in white people. Also, yellowing of the whites of the eyes in white, Black and brown people.
- Dark-colored urine.
- Itchy skin.
- Fluid buildup in the stomach area, called ascites.
- Swelling in the legs.
- Weight loss.
- Confusion, drowsiness and slurred speech, called hepatic encephalopathy.
- Spiderlike blood vessels on the skin, called spider angiomas.
Acute hepatitis C infection doesn’t always become chronic. Some people clear the infection from their bodies after the acute phase. This is called spontaneous viral clearance. Antiviral therapy also helps clear acute hepatitis C.