Nowadays, the number of people who are suffering from HEP C is getting even bigger and that’s why individuals in various countries are very aware in their health. It is a fact that most health issues today needs safe and immediate medication to avoid it from getting into a serious condition. HEP C is one of the health issues today that needs medication. The medicines to be administered in treating this disease usually come with expensive prices and that’s why individuals should have more cash to have them all. There are several medicines that should be taken the patients regularly in order to have a continuous process of recovery.
What is Hep C
Before anything else, what is HEP C? HEP C is a disease caused by hepatitis c virus. This actually affects the liver and the causative microorganism of it can easily infect anyone through a blood to blood contact. This only means that when a certain person is infected by this disease and his blood has been passed to someone through blood transfusion, the person who receives the contaminated blood will surely have suffer from this kind of health condition.
Actually, this disease is very popular to people who have tattoos in their bodies. Tattoo is one of the common reasons why some people are suffering from this disease. This disease is commonly asymptomatic and when it gets severe; it can lead to fibrosis and cirrhosis. There are some situations that cirrhosis might cause liver cancer or liver failure.
Symptoms of the Disease
The common symptoms of this disease are immediate weight loss, decrease of appetite, joints or muscle pain, nausea, and acute liver failure. These are the symptoms that usually suffer by individuals who have acute infection. Aside from acute infection, they might also suffer from chronic infection, extrahepatic complications, and occult infection. Below is the list of the famous people with hep c.
Pamela Anderson
She got famous from her role of C.J Parker in Baywatch, a television series. She actually got this disease when she borrowed a tattoo needle in Tommy Lee, her ex-husband.
Brooke Ashley
She is a celebrity actress who become more popular by playing the role of Anne Marie Ballowe. Brooke Ashley gets infected of HEP C when she was creating a pornographic film.
Stanley Fafara
He was born in 1943 and died in 2003. He was a child actor and plays the character of Whitey in the television series Leave It to Beaver. He actually suffers from HEP C when he took heroin, a type of drug.
Christopher Lawford
Born in 1995. He is the nephew of John F. Kennedy and a son of Peter Lawford. He is one of the actors in the soap opera “All My Children”.
Linda Lovelace
She is an actress in Deep Throat, a pornographic film. She was infected by HEP C when she undergone a blood transfusion after suffering from liver transplant and a car accident.
HEP C is a curable disease but, individuals should have big amount of money so that they can have a continuous treatment and recover from this disease. This disease can also get from drugs and sexual intercourse that aside from using contaminated tattoo needles. Anyone can get sick of it and famous people are not exempted.
