Living Without HepC

Well the comment about coffee sparked off two comments within hours!! One for, and one against. Perhaps I will add a Forum to this blog where discussions about specific topics like coffee, vitamins, … whatever, can be tracked more easily and added to specifically.

The article Jonathan refers to is from HivandHepatitis.com and the authors wrote, “In this large, national, population-based study, among persons at high risk for liver injury, consumption of coffee and especially caffeine was associated with lower risk of elevated ALT activity.”

Like Paul, however, I too have read that coffee is not good for the liver - and because of that stopped a couple of years ago (except for my holiday treat in Spain - sitting in sunny cafes for the occasional ‘cortado’). It was a comment from Mynurse at the beginning of my treatment that made me change my mind. I am certain she said ignore the warning about coffee and the liver (as specifically qouted in “A Rough Guide to HepC” written by +VE (How’s That Publishing Ltd) - and widely distibuted in the HepC community. I suppose I was happy to hear this advice from her! It could be that she was referring to there being no interference from coffee with the meds…. I will definitely check out what she said on coffee.

Also like Paul, I took up drinking green tea some time ago - and still do occasionally. It is meant to help detoxify the liver. But I find it also makes me thirsty and I have to follow it up with water! I also drink jasmine tea occasionally (which I came across in Tai Chi - very sociably, each class takes tea together during a break in the session).

On a completely different topic - you will see that I have changed skin again - blogskin! Well actually, my son Ben changed it and helped me (well I described what I want to do but don’t know how to and he sorted it) tweak some of the irritating bits of the last version. I hope it is clearer and easier to find your way around the blog now. With Navigation and Content topics near the top of the column to the right - and Links and Techie stuff at the bottom. And, hopefully, a clearer starting place for anyone who wants to start at the beginning!

So I acknowledge my thanks to Ben for the new look. I do depend on his technical expertise and knowledge. That’s an interesting position for a father to be in. It used to be the other way around for so many years. But I have no problem acknowledging his far superior skills with computers, weblogs, websites and the net. I respect Ben as a very skilled techie. You can catch a flavour of this at Ben Metcalfe Blog.

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