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Health Tips from Vitamin PowerHelping You Stay Healthy and Optimize Well-Being . . .With Safe, Effective, Natural Nutritional Remedies For Common Health Ailments and ConditionsSubject: Understanding HepatitisHepatitis is a generic term, meaning infection or inflammation of the liver that causes loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, extreme fatigue, flu-like body aches and cold symptoms, fever, dark urine, painfully enlarged liver, and yellow coloring of the eyes and skin. The inflammation can be from any of a number of viruses that directly infect and attack the liver tissues; from chemical toxins, such as alcohol or some anesthetics; and from certain medications. Viral infection of the liver can occur from various strains of hepatitis viruses (called A, B, C or D) that directly destroy liver tissue, as well as the inflammation of the liver caused by the Epstein-Barr (mono) virus and others. The true hepatitis viruses also differ in their routes of transmission. Type A hepatitis occurs through eating or drinking food or water contaminated by fecal waste. Type B typically passes by sharing body fluids, and types C and D are passed through contaminated blood products. How Can Diet and Nutritional Intake Help? VITAMIN C improves your body’s immune defense function when it’s under attack by any virus, including those that cause hepatitis. Orthomolecular physicians have used very large doses of 40 to 100 grams of vitamin C to achieve remarkable reduction of symptoms in acute viral hepatitis. Recommendation: Take a minimum of 4000 mg. (2 grams) per day in equal doses of 1000 mg. 4 times daily. Your body may need and tolerate even more of this vitamin during severe illness. The crystalline (powdered) form of vitamin C (capsules or powder) is most often recommended. Because the liver is involved in your body’s ability to absorb VITAMIN B12, a diseased or inflamed liver may not be able to keep up with your body’s demand for the vitamin under stress. Recommendation: Take 1000 micrograms of vitamin B12. Because the B-vitamins work best when all its members are present, you should also take complete B-Complex 100 mg. in tablet or capsule form daily. Additional supplementation with FOLIC ACID along with vitamin B12 has shown promise in helping to reduce the number of days of hospitalization from viral hepatitis and to speed healing of the injured liver. Recommendation: Take 5 mg. folic acid 2 to 3 times daily for 10 days. After that time, reduce your daily intake to 5 mg. per day until you have no physical symptoms of hepatitis and your blood tests have returned to normal. People suffering from hepatitis often are found to be deficient in VITAMIN E, and this deficiency will weaken the immune system, weaken the red blood cells, and worsen the nerve and muscle damage that can occur with hepatitis. Recommendation: Supplement with a total daily dose of 800 iu - 1000 iu of vitamin E, until normal. Maintain daily dose of 400 iu to 800 iu after all symptoms have been eliminated. LECITHIN helps to heal the damaged liver in chronic active hepatitis (a condition of prolonged - 6 months or more - liver inflammation that sometimes develops following infection by the hepatitis B and hepatitis C viruses.) Recommendation: Take 3 grams lecithin granules per day. IMPORTANT RECOMMENDATIONS: Avoid drinking alcohol. It is absolutely essential to abstain when the liver is inflamed by alcohol overuse. A diet high in sugar can worsen the inflammation to the liver especially in the case of viral hepatitis. The immune defense system weakening by sugar is especially important. A weak immune system makes you more vulnerable to infection. Eliminate sugar from your diet by curtailing your intake of table sugar, corn syrup, high-fructose corn syrup, molasses, and all products made with these substances. Supplementation with large doses of VITAMIN A can actually cause inflammation of the liver; unfortunately, you may also become deficient in this vitamin when your liver has been damaged by alcohol abuse. Recommendations: Although you may need some additional vitamin A, you should supplement this vitamin only under the direct supervision of your personal physician if you have hepatitis. Herbal remedies to consider: BURDOCK and DANDELION help cleanse the liver and bloodstream. LICORICE to be effective in treating viral hepatitis because it has antiviral activity. Caution: Do not use for more than 7 consecutive days. Do not take it at all if you have high blood pressure. MILK THISTLE contains silymarin, which heals and rebuilds the liver. Other useful herbs include: GREEN TEA, RED CLOVER, YELLOW DOCK, and GOLDENSEAL. Nutritional Supplements with Specific Emphasis on Helping Rebuild the Immune System Compromised by Hepatits:
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