Is there a better treatment for Hepatitis C than Ribavirin?

Question

I have some info about this japanese drug called Stronger Neo-Minophagen C, not sure which is better. My loved on is sick :-(
help

Answer 1

Sailormoon,
I just completed treatment with Ribavirin and Pegasys. I was on them for one year and now the virus is undetectable!!!
If there were better medications, the doctor would certainly be using them. I treat at the Mayo clinic with one of the leading Hepatitis Specialists. He has done and continues to do numerous studies and discussed the available meds with me before I started treatment. The only meds available are interferon types like Pegasys and Infergen.
There have been specials on news shows about fake drugs coming out of Asia, I would be very cautious about ANY meds from there, they and others e.g. Mexico even duplicate our current medications with benign ingredients, some of them even had harmful ingredients such as lead!
When you are dealing with health issues, be careful!
Good Luck and Smiles, Fairy

Answer 2

The woman who answered before me was right. The only known and effective tratment for hepatitis C is a combination of interferon and ribavirin. There are some herbal medicines that won't hurt you and there are some that will. My practice is to check out everything I want to take with my hep doctor. Milk Thistle is good and there is a combination of different herbs called Liv52 which my doctor said may help. I would greatly urge you to not let your loved one take anything before checking with her/his doctor.

Answer 3

Hi
Ribavirin is usually given in combinations with either a 3 time a week injection or a once a week injection of a strong antivirial medication. Its the conbination of these medications that can put the Hep C in remission. Hope this helps

Answer 4

milk thistle contains silymarin which we've shown to reduce viral reproduction = good

as far as asian drugs, we received some herbs known as SST from a japanese pharmacy, but its originally a chinese tea, but we have noresults from it yet

There is also Arbidol, from Russia, which we've shown to have positive effects on HCV as well