Hep A cures Hep C????????????????????

[Diane12855]

Did anybody see House last night? I always knew that a lot of the stuff on that show was way off in left field but last night was even more so.. The patient was diagnosed with Hep C. He was told that he could have gotten it sexually, IV drugs or from snorting cocaine... actually I was glad about the mention of the coke since it first looked like they were going to only tell about the sexual and IV transmission. When are these people going to learn that it isn't sexually transmitted? THEN...they gave the guy IV Interferon and after a few hours said it wasn't working...... OH! Also they said you could have Hep C and all tests come back negative. The guy was yellow and they were saying that if they didn't find a cure he would die in a short time. What was the cure? They infected him with Hep A saying that there was an 80% chance of it killing him, but it could kick his immune system into overdrive and it could kill off both of the viruses.

I don't really know my point of posting this... It just amazes me at what they put on TV for people to watch... You just know that many people who see that take it to be correct.

Diane

[nygirl7]

You'd think after all these years he's have moved up to oxy's at least.....vicodin, namby pamby ;)

[Trinity4]

Yeah, and House is addicted to Vicodin.  He and Nurse Jackie must be good friends and discuss treatment options often over coffee and Vicodin.

Trinity

[nygirl7]

I had to give up watching House after too many lupus diagnoses and using interferon for everything from the common cold to hepc. Always the same same same same same same misinformation given out and it started to irk me too much to handle anymore.

Just think of all the people at home thinking cool if I get hepc all i have to do is a few hours of interferon or go out and eat a bad fish bone.  ;)

[willbb]

Gee.. its hard enough for people to understand this disease as it is without T.V putting out so many  misnomers .

Just my thought

[copyman]

wow! interesting stuff. I was always told that Hep A could be deadly if you get it with HCV. This was the reason the hep doc made me get the vaccine for A & B.

The funny thing is it sounds possible that it could work. But I don't like the 80% chance of it killing the person.

By the way it can be transmitted sexually, although rare it does happen. Especially in the gay community with anal sex.