Hepatitis C: A Personal Guide to Good Health

by Beth Ann Petro Roybal

Completely updated to address the rapidly changing status of hepatitis C, this book details advances in therapeutic strategies and the search for a cure. The author presents important - and sometimes... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1569751838
• ISBN13: 9781569751831
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Ulysses Press
• Length: 151 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Hepatitis C by Roybal

The hepatitis strains are elusive for diagnosticians and evenmore so for patients. The author defines Hep C as the non-Aand non-B strain. The Hep A strain is contracted fromcontaminated water. Hep B is contracted from blood and bodyfluids; whereas Hep C enters through the blood. Hep A and Bhave a vaccine; whereas, Hep C does not. HCV risk is increasedin non-sanitary blood transfusions, shared needles ,hemophiliacsand persons with multiple sex partners. The onslaught of Hep Cbrings flu-like symptoms and joint pain with chronic fatigueand gastro-intestinal problems in some cases. The treatmentgoals are successful remission, delaying liver damage,maintaining liver function, alleviating symptoms, infectioncontrol and health maintanence. Relevant diagnostic testsare the HCV antibody; ALT and AST liver, RIBA-HCV antibody,increased alkaline phosphatase , increased bilirubin, decreasedalbumin and the PT time test for clotting. Treatments varyfrom interferon to anti-inflammatories and anti-oxidantsand vaccination of the Hep A and B or combined Hep AB vaccine.This book is very helpful to the layperson because it explainssome very complex medical jargon in conversational English.For this reason alone, it is well worth the price.You MUSTread this book if you plan extensive travelling overseas.

Explains the disease in a way even I could understand!

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!

An Extremely Readable Book Full of Important Information

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.