What is Hepatitis C?

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“Hepatitis” means inflammation of the liver.

Hepatitis C is a contagious liver disease that ranges in severity from a mild illness lasting a few weeks to a serious, lifelong illness that attacks the liver.

It results from infection with the Hepatitis C virus (HCV), which is spread primarily through contact with the blood of an infected person. Hepatitis C can be either “acute” or “chronic.”

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Causes of Hepatitis C

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Hepatitis C infection is caused by the hepatitis C virus (HCV).

You can catch hepatitis C if the blood of someone who has hepatitis C enters your body. Exposure may occur:

• After a needle stick or sharp injury

• If blood from someone who has hepatitis C contacts a cut on your skin or contacts your eyes or mouth

People at risk of hepatitis C are those who:

• Inject street drugs or share a needle with someone who has hepatitis C

• Have been on long-term kidney dialysis

• Have regular contact with blood at work (such as a health care worker)

• Have unprotected sexual contact with a person who has hepatitis C

• Were born to a mother who had hepatitis C

• Received a tattoo or acupuncture with needles that were not disinfected properly after being used on another person (risk is very low with practitioners who have a tattoo license or permit or an acupuncture license)

• Received an organ transplant from a donor who has hepatitis C.

 

Symptoms of Hepatitis C

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Most people who are recently infected with hepatitis C do not have symptoms.

Some people have yellowing of the skin (jaundice) that goes away. Chronic infection often causes no symptoms. But tiredness, skin disorders and other problems can occur. Persons who have long-term (chronic) infection often have no symptoms until their liver becomes scarred (cirrhosis).

Most people with this condition are ill and have many health problems.

The following symptoms may occur with hepatitis C infection:

• Pain in the right upper abdomen

• Abdominal swelling due to fluid (ascites)

• Clay-colored or pale stools

• Dark urine

• Fatigue

• Fever

• Itching

• Jaundice

• Loss of appetite

• Nausea and vomiting

 

Homeopathic treatment for Hepatitis C

 

Treatment mainly depends upon medical and general health condition of the patient.

Homeopathy is one of the most popular holistic systems of medicine. The selection of remedy is based on individual patient and symptoms similarity by using holistic approach.

This is the only way through which a state of complete health can be regained by removing all the sign and symptoms from which the patient is suffering.

The aim of homeopathy is not only to treat Hepatitis C infection but to address its underlying cause and individual susceptibility. As far as therapeutic medication is concerned, several well-proved medicines are available for Hepatitis C treatment that can be selected on the basis of the complaints of patients and customised for each patient.