About Hepatitis C Treatment

Hepatitis C treatment as early as possible is very important. Although your body has to fight against infection, but only 15% of successful, treatment is necessary to prevent chronic hepatitis C and help to reduce the possibility of a broken liver.

Occasionally, hepatitis C treatment takes a long time, and can not be helped. But because the disease can become severe over time, it is important to seek proper treatment from your doctor. Early diagnosis and treatment is urgent and important. A significant percentage of people who do it can be recovered from hepatitis C and showed improved liver.

The purpose of the Hepatitis C treatment is to eliminate the virus from your body as early as possible to prevent the development and worsening of end-stage liver disease.

Most forms of alpha interferon can last only one day but can be modified through a certain process to make it last longer. Although alpha interferon may be used as a single hepatitis C drugs, the research shows is more effective when combined with anti-viral ribavirin.

Three compounds are used in the treatment of hepatitis C are:

• Alpha Interferon . Is a protein made naturally by the human body to enhance immune system / immunity and regulate other cell functions. The recommended drug for chronic hepatitis C is the alpha interferon be in the form of natural or synthetic.


• Pegylated alpha interferon. Made by combining water-soluble molecule called polyethylene glycol (PEG) "with the alpha interferon molecule. Modification of alpha interferon is much longer in the body, and research shows more effective in making the response to the virus survive from chronic hepatitis C patients than regular alpha interferon.


• Ribavirin. Anti-viral drugs are used together with alpha interferon for chronic hepatitis C treatment. Ribavirin is used only if not effective against hepatitis C virus, but with a combination of alpha interferon, is more effective than alpha interferon own.

This treatment has been accepted on the basis of its ability to generate a response against the virus in people with chronic hepatitis C disease. Patients said to have a response against the virus if the number of hepatitis C virus so low that it was not detected in standard tests Hepatitis C virus RNA levels and if they remain undetected for more than 6 months after treatment is completed.