has any one heard of or tried.

My mom recently read an arcticle on using milk thistle as a means of helping the liver. Does anyone know much about this?

[nygirl7]

Does your mom have hep c or is she just thinking over all liver health?

Milk thistle won't cure hep and you can't take it if you are on treatment.

[JennyPenny]

Milk thistle helps people who have liver damage due to toxins such as poison mushrooms, etc. Unfortunately, it does nothing to help protect the liver from damage caused by the hepatitis C virus.

[christyJo]

I do, she is just trying to find options for me. I am more than likely going to be starting tx soon so its good to know.

[nygirl7]

Oh I missed that part sorry!

Milk thistle won't cure the disease unfortunately, only peg/riba will do that. Remember not to take the milk thistle on treatment - (also don't take iron, vitamin A or K either - iron can help the virus to replicate and you don't need extra stores of A or K we get enough normally and your liver cant get rid of it).

Taking a good MENS multivitamin is actually ok (I guess cause you are not getting all that much A or K but don't take extra).  Of course stuff like vitamin C is fine...you just want to be very sure that what you take isn't going to have a negative effect (on your liver OR treatment).

Keep asking questions the more you know the better your chances will be off success.

[christyJo]

Thanks, I am really feeling overwhelmed and underinformed . I have pretty much taken myself off everything.

[nygirl7]

Thanks, I am really feeling overwhelmed and underinformed

Dont feel bad - we ALL started out that way, now on the other hand I can guarantee you that the old timers in here know more than 99.9% of all of the doctors treating hep that are out there. LITERALLY.

Without the knowledge on this forum I would NOT have been cured - my own doc admitted later in treatment that he knew nothing about the disease compared to me and I only knew what I did cause the great people in here shared their wealth with me.

Without them I most certainly would have to treat again some day and I was already stage 3 when I was diagnosed.  things could have ended up very differently for me and I never forget that.

[merryBe]

>>>>>>>Without the knowledge on this forum I would NOT have been cured - my own doc admitted later in treatment that he knew nothing about the disease compared to me and I only knew what I did cause the great people in here shared their wealth with me.

Without them I most certainly would have to treat again some day and I was already stage 3 when I was diagnosed.  things could have ended up very differently for me and I never forget that.

amen and amen

mb