Treatment for Hepatitis C. Yeah... So you sit here Anna dr. Nick is ear ok darling so Anna
lives on a farm in pictum don't you likes them are boxed him not far and grow
is all your own beautiful vegetables and fruits and also you're an artist.
Yeah... You have beautiful paintings yes so n is very artistic
and believes in the natural life and he is it okay for me to people to tell
your story yeah yeah yeah well you can tell it now.
Yeah that's about it okay well I've been looking out to enter
for a long time as you know I've got an interest in the liver and and I first
came to me with the cirrhosis which is scar tissue in the liver so she has a
medium or moderate amount
of cirrhosis.
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This was caused by her contracting the
Treatment for Hepatitis C as a
refugee after the Second World War she was a lower gypsies and they had to go
from Camp to camp in the trains and they didn't use clean needles so it's a
blood-borne virus infection so she
picked it up the vaccination and so she didn't really know she
had it because hepatitis c virus was not identified in- 1988.
We used to call it nor may not be habit artists we didn't know
it existed so when we discovered this genetic structure it's an RNA virus we
were brothers huh there's another one so there's many different types of
advertising hepatitis C is a very nasty one and so any help from a very young
age she had it.
How many years do you think you've had the
Treatment for Hepatitis Cinto Dawson for I became very sick and they're the doctors
find that I have hypnotized to see years and how old were you
when you contracted to do you think after the war in your five years or five
years of been it.
We get I born in Yugoslavia and but 94 before I was four years
old by counsel set a shield of the town have to pack everything together going
to the nidus town on there be a trying to fear or and the event we have to go
my grandfather and grandmother diver allowed to stay I my mom on my sister and
me we had to move out
my dad he was in the army and he was far away I so much.
Hepatitis Symptoms
So when we came to the station be sorted open trying coming and
i put us in and from there we went up and down from Yugoslavia to Russia back
for work pick nobody looked after us I I now understand more since i talked
with you and you explain this on days and this and I can work this now
everything together that this was already the reason with my sickness.
Yes I was beaten pyar lies on flea and this was my sickness
yeah i was very sick as child but this nobody nobody my defense
of this you know but it now when I've been here in Australia my husband went to
come to Australia me three little children this was what really hit me because
I was homesick I didn't want to come and I have two little english and and then
in 2004 the sickness stopping so that hepatitis started to benefit first
two thousand for 12 years ago and and, and you never had any
drug treatment for advertisers all you've been using is live a formula and
selenium we've been taking sledding for a long time now.
Mmm do you think you feel better now than we did 10 years ago
this is something funny now I always know I was sick but when I
came last week to you because I I like I going to my system next month's to
Germany and I need tablets or night talking with you
and then it hit me because I ask you is this okay.
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I feel so well is this normal or do I losing this when I was
really seek before I came to you and then by dr. hit me feel seven years and we
couldn't get rid of the sickness - on after the seven years after my blood test
and ultrasound my dr. who I
trusted said to me that he cannot help me and 52 weeks.
I was so gone I had no idea i didn't talk meet no one because it
hit me so but then I remember dr. Sandra's liver cleansing book but I head in
2004.
When I started so somebody gave me this as a diaper sell your
book on for eight weeks I might do this i lost 20 kilos Wow and in heaven when
I said no I now I think who can help me when the doctor can take me.
I got to dr. Sandra and we'll ask here if she can help me to
come over this yeah and so thanks very much pleasure and so do you think you
feel better now then you did 10 years ago oh I feel terrific you might be right
here coming dark again oh haha wow my finger night growing on my hair.
I had all my little short hair because this is not growing
huh I have to go to hair place up more often yeah so if you help
your liver your kidneys it does help you hear differently
that's a Chinese medicine but you know and is very interesting
because she's um not young anymore.
I don't exactly know how would you are good I can't believe it
but she's had hepatitis C not really for 60 years more or 60 years yeah you got
it when you were five yeah you might have had it for 65 years yeah I'm 76 ya
know she's had it for
over 70 years.
Yeah so that's interesting and it's true that it most people
with
Treatment for Hepatitis C they will die of something else if they
have a healthy diet and lifestyle and antenna she does juicing
and she grows her own vegetable that means it has a wonderful
lifestyle and I think that's kept her stable but she has
cirrhosis and that is a liver disease and she's got low.
Platelets from there in a and large plain but she feels well she
doesn't suffer so you know it's not a death sentence having
hepatitis like it used to be if you look after yourself.
We also have new drugs to cure hepatitis you heard of those enna
yeah yeah that come out last year and now they're free these new hepatitis
drugs of free in Australia and there there's different
ones.
There's a phosphor via and let us fear and death was severe
so we can actually use those drugs to eradicate the virus but
they're not proven to work yet two or three years down the track so if general
you know what when we look at a patient like Anna.
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Who you know has got the very stable cirrhosis and she's
doing really well you know what what what would you say about
the drugs would like to follow him I would like to wait his medication portable
follow him i will have better feedback how this new medication of working on
this stage or new medication
for hepatitis C we have success more than ninety five of five
percent not just our on experience but a lot in the medical journals they have
490 of how I said ninety-five percent of success and people completely edited
of the virus in
the blood that's the problem.
Would what we're facing today we don't know how this virus will
be in there long time could be his hidden somewherein the liver and the blood
it's completely clean from the virus andits can be again over will show up
probably after one or two ears view
waiting for more it is search and more knowledge it's anew
medication on the market success is ninety-five percent and my
personal opinion if not for presentation for general for the
patient if they have hepatitis C and we can be a read of this
virus.
I suggest them yes because even even we don't know yet after a
few years or a year the virus come back we have we can kill
it again and this is at a revolutionary treatment because up to
now via we're not able to completely be a bit of a virus in human bodies in
it's the first time when we can do it and I think it's terrific be given this
treatment too.
Near to everyone of course different people have different
complaints and we think about it but how is set if someone
having capita see we inviting you to come to our clinic
the success is ninety-five percent.
Yes so Dalton is manan are we get a lot of emails from people
from all over the world who suffer with
hepatitis C and who want to get these
new drugs to cure them and and that is because in their countries they cannot
get these drugs at a reasonable price.
So for example a patient in the unitedstates of america would
pay over ninety thousand dollars for a 12-week course so you only have to take
them for 12 weeks unless you got cirrhosis or Jenna type 2 with cirrhosis you
might need to take them for 24 weeks then it's more expensive so it's usually
cost prohibitive for the majority of people but what's been happening is
through
compounding pharmacies that oversees patients are able to
contact Australian doctors who write the prescription for the drugs.
The drugs are made up by the commenting chemist and posted over
C so you know we've had patients in Eastern Europe in America in South America
all sorts of places can't even keep up with a even
Canada years so it went where the second only country in
the world to have these drugs for free but the compounded
drugs are not free.
They're about two thousand two hundred dollars but that's
nothing compared to over 90,000 right so a lot of foreigners are contacting us
and other doctors who provide this telemedicine to get a prescription for the
generic version of these hepatitis drugs.
You may have heard of harvoni that's one of them ninety-five
percent success rate so that is a breakthrough because you're
right viruses are just tread early difficult
to eradicate from the body nobody's been able to do it for the
AIDS virus or the hepatitis b virus or the herpes worth reopening your patient
medicine.
Yes we have a new chapter medicine with these new drugs yeah but
as you say we have we hope the virus doesn't become resistant because it does
change its RNA to mutate to be resistant to the drugs so there's two drugs you
have to get the patient not just one because of this resistance.
Because HCV can only be transmitted through blood to infected
blood exposure, the number one way to prevent spreading hepatitis C is by not
sharing needles, and avoiding all contact with anyone else's blood.
obese woman smoking and drinking alcohol
Liver scarring can be accelerated by obesity, smoking, diabetes
and alcohol consumption.
Once identified, those infected with HCV should receive both the
hepatitis A and B vaccines, and make lifestyle changes to promote optimum liver
health.
Obesity, smoking, diabetes and alcohol consumption can
accelerate the rate of liver scarring (fibrosis).19 It is important that all
individuals who are infected with HCV maintain good health. That means:
No smoking
Maintaining ideal weight
Managing co-existing health problems
Abstaining from all alcohol
Acetaminophen can be taken under the guidance of the managing
provider. Ibuprofen should be avoided.20
The current
treatment for chronic hepatitis C is a combination
of medications. The choice of medication and duration of treatment depends on
the genotype of the virus. Genotype 1a is the most prevalent in the US, and
presently there are three recommended treatment options using a certain
combination of the medications listed below:21
Sofosbuvir
Paritaprevir
Ritonavir
Ombitasvir
Ribavirin
Simeprevir
Dasabuvir.
Direct-acting antivirals (DAAs) are the newest agents available
to treat HCV. These medications work by targeting specific steps in the HCV
life cycle and disrupting the virus from replicating.
Before the availability of DAAs, the
treatment for chronic HCV
was lengthy and grueling, with less than ideal cure rates. Now the cure rates
are over 90%. The average duration of treatment is 8-12 weeks. The medications
are well-tolerated with the most common side effect being headache and fatigue.
New medications for HCV are costly with a price tag nearing
$100,000 or more. However, the average cost of a liver transplant is $578,000 -
add additional medical expenses for the first year and the cost approaches one
million dollars.22
Treating chronic HCV early in the disease course before the
patient develops complications or progresses to life-threatening circumstances
seems unequivocally the most logical choice.
In hepatitis C virus infection, treatment is prevention. Yet,
two million persons in the US do not know they are chronically infected.
As we continue with education, risk-based screening, exposure
prevention, and the arrival of well-tolerated
Treatment for Hepatitis C, the outlook for
preventing serious liver complications and curing those who have chronic
hepatitis C infection has never been better.