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Subject: hep, the liver and hard candies- Mary's story

I had hep. had a liver bio. lost 1/2 of my liver. doc made me suck on hard candies for months but it healed the liver and was made whole.
Mary
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so, you only sucked on hard candies? No silver, or other things? -Kathryn
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I took nothing else as I did not know of silver as it was 33 yrs ago.
No drugs, the doc said the slow release of sugar repairs the liver, it did mine and my friends' liver. As I stated she lost her whole liver. We did not have hep at the same time. She went to Hawaii and ate something most of the other patrons also ended up with hep. Mine was related to the surgery, the doc said it was the needle, do not know how they can tell, at least it was not cancer.
Mary
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Mary...how did sucking on hard candies for months heal your liver and make it whole again??? Thanks in advance!!- Deb
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I do not know!!!
I was told to do this by the doc and I did. He gave me no drugs what so ever. Not many different kinds of hard candies out there 33 yrs ago I remember I sucked on a lot of horehound candies. yuck.
MARY
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You probably had "infectious" hepatitis type A and your friend had
"serum" hepatitis type B.

You will get over most hepatitis A and B with rest, and if you don't
over exert yourself.  Conventional treatment is near bed rest, restrict
fats as the bile duct is usually inflamed and closed, and to give sugars
to reduce the effort of the liver to make/store sugars.

Dan