Natalie Cole fights against its hepatitis C
The American singer Natalie Cole has Hepatits C. that already became known in July. Besides it developed depressions, so that their physicians were temporarily afraid for its life. On 9 September she presented her new album and showed to the world that she still fights.
Los Angeles /USA - Natalie Cole is not only the daughter of Nat King Cole, her has also even numerous successes to show. She is a singer and Songwriterin, in her 58 years of life nearly 30 albums out brought, eight Grammies and three American Music Award won. In the year 2000 it published its autobiography, in which it reported also openly on its drug past with heroin, LSD and Crack. In this time it was probably infected with hepatitis the C-virus.
Good therapy results
In spring this yearly was diagnosed the outbreak of the illness with it and begun immediately with the therapy. The artist reported to the “People” magazine that she could not rise three weeks long and weight had lost 7.5 kilograms. It would have its life actually by-pulls to see, said the 58-jährige. The director/conductor of the hospital, in which Cole was treated, indicated at that time in a statement that it responds “unusually well” to the medicines and was already virus negative. “I had to learn a quantity of lessons”, said Cole to the “People” magazine, “, some things I have made better could, but they made me also, what I am.”
Natalie Cole is not alone with their diagnosis, also Pamela Anderson one and Naomi Judd on hepatitis C was positively tested.
Hepatitis C - the virale time bomb
This very day, approximately 20 years after its discovery, is the virus, hepatitis C releases, HCV, to a large extent unexplored and from there unknown. Hepatitis C is an inflammation of the liver. The pathogen is transferred mainly over the blood. Most infections came off due to a blood transfusion. The HCV virus is provable also in other body fluids such as sperm or mother's milk, a transmission by these is however extremely rare.
The illness can run both acutely and chronically. Since symptoms show up rarely, them are recognized often too late usually only by accident and. Classical symptoms are reducingness, pains of the joints, daily tiredness, concentration disturbances, as well as in most cases increased liver enzyme values. If the infection is not in time recognized, the virus provides for the damage of the liver. The viruses settle in liver cells and these become from the “body police”, which destroys white blood corpuscles. If the renewal of the liver cells runs more slowly than the destruction, it can come to Vernarbungen at the liver. That means that in the damaged places new liver cells, but connective tissue is not stored. Because this is however not as flexible as liver fabrics, it comes to ever more injuries. The consequence of it can be a Leberfibrose or life ore erring trousers. The organ cannot follow then its detoxicating activity any longer, the body poisons itself quasi.
If the treatment is in time arranged and accomplished by the patient consistently, the healing chances are today with 50 to 90 per cent. Still in the 90's they lay with only 25 to 40 per cent.
