Winning the Hepatitis C Battle: Understanding the Disease & How to Treat It Successfully [With CDROM]

by Shekhar Challa

Winning the Hepatitis C Battle gives you the information you need to wage a well-fought, intelligent war on hepatitis C. Learn about your liver and the damage it can suffer from hepatitis C. Walk... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0974388300
• ISBN13: 9780974388304
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: Kansas Medical Pub.
• Length: 131 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.6" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

A good comprehensive resource about Hepatitis C

Winning the Hepatitis C Battle is an extremely reader-friendly book, meant for patients, supporters,doctors and health-care professionals - in short, any one who needs to know about hepatitis C and the treatment options against it. Written by Dr.Shekhar Challa, M.D., Gastroenterologist and Hepatologist, the book provides a single-stop handy reference to patients and their families/friends, when the diagnosis of Hepatitis C comes up first. It helps the other health-care professionals, physicians and yes, even the specialist by saving his/her valuable time and energy in explaining to the patients/supporters, the many questions that are bound to arise in the context of such a diagnosis. With the help of a beautifully produced and easy-to-understand book and an interactive CD-ROM, Dr.Challa and his team explain all that a person needs to normally know about this Silent Epidemic. The book starts right from the beginning, that is the Diagnosis, then explains the seat of action - the Liver, its functions, the differences between Hepatitis A, B,...E, specific signs, symptoms and complications of Hepatitis C. It then goes on to the treatment options, and looks at the alternative treatment and special situations. The book has FAQs, Glossary, links to useful websites and an Index. All in all, the book is a complete handy reference guide to the Successful Treatment of Hepatitis C. Dr.Challa brings out the various advances in treatment options including as-on-today, the most successful combination of pegylted interferon and Ribavarin. But he brings out that the most important ingredients in the treatment protocol and which only the patient can supply are courage and optimism. These in fact, give the desire to live to the patient. Without that desire, even the best physician can't help. So, what ever may be the stage of the disease, beginning, advanced, or resistant to the standard treatment, the message is simple - never give up. Coming from a main stream gastroenterologist, the treatment of the chapter 6, Herbs and Alternative Medicine is fairly unbiased and this reviewer didn't expect a more active support to or detailed coverage of an important topic. Though not medically qualified, this reviewer has a long association and interaction with health-care professionals including those from the alternative systems and is thus aware of many successful treatment options. But to be fair to the author, Dr.Challa doesn't forbid you from following the alternative treatment route. He could have avoided the statement, ""Even though it is clear that alternative medicine therapy has minimal or no role in treatment of hepatitis C, ..."" and instead, could have offered to work with such patients who need to take the alternative treatment route for any reason, including the problem of side-effects, the enormous expenditure or the ineffectiveness of the Standard Treatment. This book is primarily meant for the US Market, and hence discusses the statistics of Hepatitis C

Thorough treatment of the Hepatitus C subject

Tired of finding a piece of information on Hepatitis C here and a piece there but unable to put it all together into a complete picture? In his book "Winning the Hepatitis C Battle" author Shekhar Challa, M.D. provides a comprehensive, authoritative overview of the disease. Dr. Challa discusses the diagnosis of the disease, treatment options, potential complications, and even herbs and other alternative treatments.One of the things that make this book unique is the inclusion of the emotional aspects of being diagnosed with Hepatitis C and going through treatment. Dr. Challa includes many of the personal thoughts and comments of Denise Hudman from the point where she was diagnosed with Hepatitis C through some of her feelings as she went through treatment. This is invaluable insight if you are dealing with a friend who has been diagnosed with the disease. "Winning the Hepatitis C Battle" also includes a frequently asked questions section and a glossary. With the comprehensive coverage and easy to understand writing style this is a highly recommended read for anyone wanting to gain a broad understanding of Hepatitis C.

a great help!

With the discovery in 1989 of the virus that causes this disease, there have been great leaps in its management & Dr. Challa's WINNING THE HEPATITIS C BATTLE is one of the most positive pieces of news yet. With short patient stories, diagrams, pictures & simple explanations, RebeccasReads recommends this book with its CD-ROM for anyone who has been touched by this "silent" killer.

Winning the Hepatitis C Battle

Winning the Hepatitis C Battle contains in-depth information necessary tofight hepatitis C. Written in an easy-to-understand format that includesthe personal stories of many patients, the book and CD-ROM covers the topics neededfor a complete understanding of the disease. Subjects include your liverand how it functions; hepatitis C and its effects on your body; andhepatitis C treatment and the side effects to that process. This book and CD-ROM isrecommended for anyone who is has hepatitis C themselves or whose lovedone is afflicted with the disease.