What are the treatments for viral hepatitis?
There are several prescription drugs available to treat and manage viral hepatitis. You should discuss the treatment options with your doctor. To protect against the disease, people traveling to countries where hepatitis A is common should take the hepatitis A vaccine four weeks before leaving for their trip. For most people there is no need to treat the disease. Once you get hepatitis A, the body builds a natural resistance to it. After the disease runs its course, a person is unlikely to get hepatitis A again. The approved treatment for hepatitis B consists of a drug called alfa interferon. It works for many people. New treatments are being tested. A lot of progress has been made in recent years to improve the treatment of hepatitis C. Again, interferons are the only currently available drugs that work against the disease. New drugs are being tested. Q. What are the long term effects of the hepatitis viruses? Hepatitis A causes no long-term liver damage and is rarely fatal. Having th
