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Hepatitis C: A Personal Guide to Good Health

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This book is good reading for the person who knows nothing about the Hepatitis C Virus. For the patient who knows even the slightest about HCV, this book will not be of much help. I personally feel that this book was thrown together in a week or two without much thought put into it. Some of the website URLS are not correct.

This book was obviously written after much research into the Hepatitis C virus and made to be very readable for the average person. After reading it, I was amazed at how much I learned about this dreadful disease which afflicts so many Americans, and will continue to afflict many more in the future. There are few books available on this topic at any bookstore, so it was a pleasure to find one so easy to understand, but that was also highly endorsed by one of the top physicians in this field.

I would highly recommend this book to anyone who has the virus, or to anyone who knows someone afflicted with Hepatitis C. Well worth the money.

This book is very helpful to anyone who has, or wants to learn more about, Hepatitis C. The author is able to explain the complex disease in simpler, understandable terms. I would highly reccommend this book!

The hepatitis strains are elusive for diagnosticians and even
more so for patients. The author defines Hep C as the non-A
and non-B strain. The Hep A strain is contracted from
contaminated water. Hep B is contracted from blood and body
fluids; whereas Hep C enters through the blood. Hep A and B
have a vaccine; whereas, Hep C does not. HCV risk is increased
in non-sanitary blood transfusions, shared needles ,hemophiliacs
and persons with multiple sex partners. The onslaught of Hep C

brings flu-like symptoms and joint pain with chronic fatigue
and gastro-intestinal problems in some cases. The treatment
goals are successful remission, delaying liver damage,
maintaining liver function, alleviating symptoms, infection
control and health maintanence. Relevant diagnostic tests
are the HCV antibody; ALT and AST liver, RIBA-HCV antibody,
increased alkaline phosphatase , increased bilirubin, decreased
albumin and the PT time test for clotting. Treatments vary
from interferon to anti-inflammatories and anti-oxidants
and vaccination of the Hep A and B or combined Hep AB vaccine.
This book is very helpful to the layperson because it explains
some very complex medical jargon in conversational English.
For this reason alone, it is well worth the price.You MUST
read this book if you plan extensive travelling overseas.

It is difficult to pan a book, especially since it was one of the first I ever read about hepatitis C. The book's foreword was written by the now-deceased Emmet Keeffe, MD, a man I admired very much. However, although the book filled a big need in the late 1990's, it is now out-of-date and stands along with many better books. Thank you Ms. Roybal for being a pioneer for hepatitis C patients.