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Is hepatitis b curable?

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  • stephen 10 years ago

    Thank u very much,
    In 2005 my wife was admitted at the korle bu hospital for delivery,i was told to donate blood,i did n i was told that i ve hepatitis b which can not be treated but it will vanish by itself.
    In 2007,i trav ...
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  • FM 10 years ago

    You are the voice of the silent majority. I tested +ve to HB in 2006 when I went to donate blood. I since never bothered to check again. However I know I am sitting on a timing bump. I am a Lecturer in one of the Polytechnics ...
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  • Chief Superintendent 10 years ago

    Stephen, the best option for you is to see a 'Professional' doctor to advice you on how to manage your HBV. More often than not you will have to eat foods that will bust your immune system. Stop smoking, stop drinking alcholi ...
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  • Lariba 10 years ago

    I was also tested positive since 2008 my doctor told me it is just chronic something and is nothing at the Legon hospital in 2012 I fell sick and was tested positive again I don't know what to do am just there

  • SaveYourLife 7 years ago

    @Lariba being a chronic Hepatitis B carrier make sure you stay away from any oily foods,oily fishes ,alcohol and make sure you eat more fruits and green leafy vegables,Grapefruit, Avocado,apples are good for you , and make su ...
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  • SaveYourLife 7 years ago

    All you have to do is to start living a healthy lifestyle and avoid alcohol , oily foods . Please as a chronic carrier you have to go with well balance diet, eat more fruit and also green leafy vegetables. Drink more water ev ...
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  • Captain Planet 10 years ago

    Here we are on our hands with another piece of misinformation! Did you just say/write that some form of hepatitis can go by itself? That is not true. If continue with your old lifestyle of fried foods, chemical drugs, you can ...
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  • Osei 10 years ago

    The immune system can in some instances clear the virus.

  • Amed 10 years ago

    We need more research on HBV. In Ghana.I have personally witnessed patients with advanced liver stage getting well after some time under herbal treatment. Let's explore all avenues and not just uncritically dismiss them.

  • nana 10 years ago

    i was tested positive in 2009.. i wish i knew some herbal medicines to take.. i am in constant pain.. i think my liver is getting damaged. just waiting for the time to come i will leave this world.. i am tired of it. i take j ...
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  • helen 10 years ago

    Don't loos hope my brother, avoid herbs and root they are harmful to your liver, stay away from alcahol, red meat, oiling food etc, eat a lot of green vetables and balance diet consult your doctor before taken and suppliment ...
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  • Dhanasekar 8 years ago

    Dont feel you will be alright soon. God with you always be happy and loved with your family.

  • SaveYourLife 7 years ago

    @Nana have faith and make sure you start living a healthy lifestyle , taking dandelion and lemon juice are very good for Hepatitis B patients but make sure you don't take in too much vitamin c and D , also stay away from alco ...
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  • Emmanuel Owusu 10 years ago

    Dolck thank you soo much for your education, may GOD richly bless you and extended your knowledge,

    It is a rispponsebility to every ghanian profesional worker, if you 're a thicture, mp, minister,president, lawyer, jud ...
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  • ATTA KOFI --FRANCE 10 years ago

    My dear brothers and sisters whom are tested positve to HB and are silently living with it,must know that the disease is infecteouse and should protect themselves in sex.Otherwise you are affecting your love ones.It is the mo ...
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  • patience 10 years ago

    but how will we the poor get to france? the government should please help us treat ourselves.if not more people will soon be affected with the virus.

  • TIMBILA 10 years ago

    PLEASE DOCTOR,FIRST OF ALL I THANK VERY MUCH FOR GIVEN US THIS ADVICE.DOCTOR,THESE IS MY PERSONAL NUMBER 0201373884 KINDLY LET ME HAVE YOUR PERSONAL NUMBER TOO SO THAT WE CAN TALK ON PHONE.

  • Johnson 10 years ago

    Can i look for the drugs u listed

  • katherine 10 years ago

    So as the president what are you doing about the availability of the drugs in ghana please?

  • PT 10 years ago

    My brother has been diagnose of this disease. Please lets find a way out and stop frightening ourselves. The harm has already been done, someone should tell me what next to do please.

    (0266639732)

  • jay 10 years ago

    i ve heard testimonies of God healing people with hep b, cancer n even hiv,aids so try God too and lets see wat happens. you might never know wen your miracle might come.dnt give up yet.the devil would be feeding your head th ...
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  • LetsLiveHelthyLifestyle 7 years ago

    PT your brother can live with this deadly disease for long years only if he eat healthy balance diet and also stay away from oily foods and alcohol . Fruit and green leafy vegetables must be common in his diet .

  • rechael ekua amo 10 years ago

    Doc a very gud friend of was dagnose of Heb B was given treatment. Al d expensive drugs which cn treat dis disease was given 2 him. Nw wew al sees him 2 b cured. Pls I wana knw weda we wl b contracted with d disease whn we ea ...
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  • helen 10 years ago

    Goodnews, researcher are making progress now Gilead GS-9620 from bionews texa supresses Hepatitis B. Please Google this drug (GS-9620).

  • James 10 years ago

    I am also positive.what shd I do?'

  • Yaw 10 years ago

    "The virus is transmitted through blood. This can occur through direct blood to blood contact, unprotected sex, and use of unsterile needles and from an infected woman to her new born during the delivery process." Don't keep ...
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  • NAA 10 years ago

    I TESTED POSITIVE WEN I GOT A JOB AND WEN FOR MEDICALS. AM VERY DEVASTATED AND EVEN THINK OF ENDING MY LIFE CUS AM GONNA DIE ANYWAYS FROM THIS DEADLY DISEASE. GOD HOW DID I EVEN CONTRACTED THIS. MY WORLD HAS CRASHED.

  • dan 10 years ago

    does it mean a chronic hepatitis patient will forever have the virus??

  • manu Simon 10 years ago

    I was screen and tested positive. My blood sample was taken for investigation about a week now.what should I do?

  • Fiifi 10 years ago

    Thanks so much Theobald Owusu-Ansah! i went to the hospital today because i was not feel quite had some pains in my joints, i had a lab test and i took it back to the doctor and said i have hepatitis b. but was prescribed Liv ...
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  • NURUDIN IBRAHIM ZAMPALIGRE 10 years ago

    There are only a few people who think about others......no matter where person comes from or who he/she is.....lets show love to the needy.....be your brother's keeper......may GOD bless you.....God bless us and our homeland ...
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  • ernest 10 years ago

    help me its killing me, if there is way out

  • shiks 10 years ago

    i am broken, i ve lost hope, and given up on life,wat is left for me to hold on to wen am down with dis deadly disease.waking up each day knowing some unless virus is inside of me feeding and destroying my liver is enuf tortu ...
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  • .......... 10 years ago

    hmmmmm

  • Franck 10 years ago

    Please help me ,i have been tested positive with this results,the doctor was a french man so i
    couldn't get all he told me, Ref 10-40 and Results is 62,please how serious is this?

    Secondly,i have never fall sick since l ...
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  • samuel acheampong 10 years ago

    Is there no supportive drugs for newly diagnose HBV patient for treatment

  • Konamah Genevieve 10 years ago

    when is a patient supposed to take drugs when he/she develops chronic hepatitis

  • Ram 10 years ago

    Medicine for acute hepatities B

  • michael 10 years ago

    please can someone vaccinated against it experience it when she comes into contact with infected person

  • b f 10 years ago

    what should i do am feeling chest pain

  • Emmanuel 10 years ago

    may you be bless.... a word to a wise is enough...

  • Nibedita Ghosh 10 years ago

    is hepatitis B genetic?If father died in this desease and mother recently suffering from hepatitise B in first stage,their children have any threats?

  • victoria 10 years ago

    After testing positive and taking drugs from the hospital,do i have to fold my hands and sit down? What is next?

  • SaveYourLife 7 years ago

    @ Victoria no ,you don't need to fold your hands and sit down , all you have to do is to eat healthy balance diet ,fruits and vegetables must be common in our diet, also drink plenty water everyday .

  • kwabena j micky 10 years ago

    we are in a world of injustices.the western diet is what we hv to watch out.lets eat natural fruits,vegetable and other herb to cure.trust me it is cureable when we avoid western diet n certain lifestyle.God bless u 4 dis art ...
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  • Sharon Bobi 10 years ago

    government of Ghana should try as much as possible to get the curable medicine for hepatitis b because I am dieing

  • dv 10 years ago

    we all will die someday but dont lose hope u wont die my dear, call me on 0236 839692.. i know a lot about the disease sp we cam talk about it

  • Miss arthur 10 years ago

    I need help please i am a hep b client.

  • Edna 10 years ago

    can BONLIV Syrup cure hepatitis b?

  • alberta 10 years ago

    you made mentioned that hepatitis b is not curable but treatable. does is it mean it is not a that dangerous and you can live for long

  • nana quame 10 years ago

    Thanks.

  • Hertty 9 years ago

    Is some food not to be taken by hepatitis b patient

  • ERIC 9 years ago

    Can hepatitis be transferred through the food you cook as a patient?

  • GORGE 9 years ago

    HOW DID IT COME INTO THIS WORLD?

  • Ron Douglason 9 years ago

    Celebrating Hepatitis B virus day in Ghana how many lives have you save in this diseases. Fack u Ghana governments.

  • KUKUA 9 years ago

    VERY EDUCATE PIECE

  • john N 9 years ago

    What should I eat and not eat or drink if I get hepatitis B

  • Nana 9 years ago

    It's sad to read your post Mr president, but no doctor will tell a patient that chronic hepatitis b is curable, like how? Are you saying this because patients told you or you heard it from a doctor? Look, patients misinterpr ...
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  • Gurcharan Kaur 9 years ago

    I am Gurcharan Kaur from NEW YORK. I was in trouble when doctor told me that I have been diagnosed with HEPATITIS B... I though about my children and my husband, I know my children will face a serious problem when I'm gone, I ...
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  • bosy 8 years ago

    Ei ignorance

  • Benita 8 years ago

    I wnt to knw if chronic is curable or u can only treat it?

  • Raphael Gerson 8 years ago

    We have not met Dr. Oraede but have heard of his excellent work on people's life. We contacted Dr. Oraede and he started his work on her life and right now my wife is cured. she was diagnosed with Hepatitis B and after taking ...
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  • priscilla 8 years ago

    Pls i want his contact

  • Dhanasekar 8 years ago

    My father having heptatis b virus with jaundice. Previously we does't know the meaning of heptatis b virus. Now doctor and all confusing us..they are telling liver may damage etc. I am not sure what to do? Financial also prob ...
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  • Alson Moore 8 years ago

    All thanks to Dr Ikedi for the traditional herbal remedy he render to me, i have been with
    HBV disease for so many yrs and i was at the point of death, i came in contact with Dr Ikedi
    and he prepare a herbal medicine for me ...
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  • mark 8 years ago

    hello everybody ,please dont think this testimony is a scam ,is real right there in south africa ,am a very honest man ,i can never post false testimony on social media ,so let me go straight to the point .i was diagnosed wit ...
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  • Jasondlove 8 years ago

    I was diagnose of Dis deadly disease ,when I was medicals for schooling but the reason is that I haven't had a contact sex before and I don't use people's sharp object , I don't know how I come by dis disease atall and am com ...
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  • maria 8 years ago

    This is my testimony about the good work of a man who cured me..my names is maria willson,i was hepatitis b positive for 2 years,so i tried so many medicine,i was not able to get cured, till one day i saw someone post about d ...
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  • Rose 8 years ago

    I was teated postive .pls doc what should i do cus am afraid of loosing life

  • LetsLiveHelthyLifestyle 7 years ago

    @Rose having Hepatitis B positive doesn't mean you have no life you can live with it for 50yrs or more. The best is to start living a healthy lifestyle. Eat more fruit and green leafy vegetable foods to improve your health. ...
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  • juliet 8 years ago

    Hello everyone I am Juliet Brookes am from Washington, I want to testify of how i got cured from Hepatitis B with the help of a great Dr Osele. I got diagnosed of Hepatitis B in 2013 I have visited several hospitals but all ...
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  • Dianne Ashley 8 years ago

    thank you for sharing. will see my doctor tomorrow. the answers I needed were given. I was just told after testing I had hepatitis b and a spot on my liver. I went in the hospital for my sugar and blood pressure being much to ...
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  • james 7 years ago

    Why don't you leave your number so the we can gain some motivation from you ?

  • Ato. 6 years ago

    Hepatitis B
    I'm tested hepatitis b,on the first stage my doctor had given me some medicine, it really help me.But after three and half months,my sickness started again,like complete tiredness, paining in my stomach, unable t ...
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  • Kwaku Blaq 6 years ago

    Pls if you have hepatitis B, does it mean you can't travel to Europe to live and work there?
    Thank u

  • Kwaku Blaq 6 years ago

    Pls can a Hepatitis B patient travel to Europe,Live and work there? Is that possible?

  • Mariel 6 years ago

    All thanks to God, i am now negative of HBsAG, Contact: medlab36@gmail.com