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Hepatitis C Treatment One Step at a Time
Inspiration and Practical Tips for Successful Treatment
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- USD 15.99
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- USD 15.99
Descripción editorial
Hepatitis C is the most common blood-borne virus in the U.S. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that 3.2 million Americans are chronically infected with the chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV). Treatment for HCV is long, sometimes lasting a year or more with success rate currently around 50%. And the medications often cause incapacitating side effects. Two new medications introduced in 2011 are showing success rates of 75 to 80%. However these new medications are taken with existing HCV drugs and include and intensify the side effects.
Hepatitis C Treatment One Step at a Time provides the practical advice and daily inspiration you need to help you successfully make it through hepatitis C (HCV) treatment.
Deciding to undergo hepatitis C treatment is one of the bravest and most important steps toward health youíll ever make. As a former Stanford nurse in the HCV field and a patient who was treated twice for HCV, Lucinda K. Porter understands how physically and emotionally challenging treatment can be.
In Hepatitis C One Step at a Time, she provides entries for each day of treatment, offering you a daily dose of relief, encouragement, and tips to help you stay on treatment. From dealing with fatigue and nausea to nosy co-workers and lab results, Porter provides everything you need to know to ease the process, including how to:
Prepare for treatment, mentally, physically, and financiallyManage side effectsSet up a support systemKeep your spirits up with daily inspiration and humorCelebrate your strength and acknowledge your milestonesFind additional community and up-to-date information with an extensive resources section
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Registered nurse, health educator, and advocate Porter (Free from Hepatitis C), a long-time hepatitis C specialist, defines the path for hepatitis C patients receiving antiviral therapy and does so with the credibility and compassion of a patient and a comrade-in-arms. The author proffers a day-by-day roadmap for the 48 weeks of Hepatitis C treatment, with daily readings to keep patients motivated, in addition to discussing the background of the disease, explaining treatment options, effects and side effects, and when and what the patient can expect to experience. Throughout the journey, Porter weaves in inspirational quotes from a range of sources, including Confucius and Dolly Parton, and offers daily tips ("When times are tough, recite a favorite prayer or phrase"). Like a Lonely Planet guidebook, this well-written and timely volume will be dog-eared and wrinkled by the end of treatment; likely, too, it will be passed on to the next traveler.