Tuesday, July 28, 2009

What is the treatment for HIV/AIDS? And if it is untreated are there any long term effects to someones health


What is the treatment for HIV/AIDS? And if it is untreated are there any long term effects to someones health?
Thankyou No i don't have it. It is for an assignment at school, but i can't seem to find that information anywhere.
Infectious Diseases - 9 Answers
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1 :
There are a number of drugs used to treat HIV. Left untreated, HIV will turn into AIDS. AIDS will then kill you painfully
2 :
Do you have it? People can Live into a Long age with H.I.V or Aids. The highest recorded was 70+. And its usual to be about 65+ normaly. But. Without Treatment, It'll be painful. And AIDS kills you Slowly and Painfully.
3 :
some say v.c.o . out of 10 person during experiment 8 give good result.
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yes there are many drugs to fight hiv most referred to as a cocktail which i believe are similar to radiation pills for cancer .treated or untreated hiv usually turns into aids.
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Without treatment, you will likely die. I believe AZT is still the drug of choice, but my knowledge is out of date. I just know without any treatment, it will progress and you will contract something like pneumonia that your body is unable to fight off.
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Er yeah. Death. The immune system is practically non-existant meaning they will constantly suffer infections and get serious complications.
7 :
I'd ask Magic Johnson if I were you. Whatever he's doing seems to be working wonders.
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The standard treatment for HIV infection is something called HAART: Highly active antiretroviral therapy. This typically takes the form of three drugs, two nucleic acid analogues like AZT, and one HIV Protease Inhibitor, however this is only in general. There are now Integrase inhibitors, and NNRTIs, which can be added to the cocktail as well. What therapy is used depends on the state the patient is in. Untreated HIV infection progresses to AIDS. This took an average of two and a half to three years after infection in the 1980s, however this can vary enormous, up to decades. The majority progress within that period without treatment. Again in the 1980s before antiretroviral treatment was, the diagnosis of AIDS typically came when a patient would come down with Pneumocystis pneumonia, an infection that only occurs in people with completely nonfunctional immune systems. Average time to death from an AIDS diagnosis was six months prior to the availability of HAART.
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HIV treatment is getting better all the time - but it's a very difficult disease to live with, especially because of the stigma around having it. it is very hard to have a normal life after getting it. Before 1997, standard therapy available was only AZT, and 2 other drugs like it. People took only 1. This "monotherapy" (meaning 1 medication only) made people sicker though sometimes by advancing the disease, and the side effects were bad. In 1997, the first line of real effective medicines were developed. People took 2 of the old drugs but ADDED a Protease Inhibitor (PI). That has saved lives. It was referred to as the "cocktail". Many different PIs were created so that if a person "uses up" one cocktail, they can change a med or two and take a different mix. There are many different options in case a person becomes resistant to certain drugs. In more recent years, medicine has gotten even better - regarding amount of pills having to be taken (they have put 2 and 3 meds into 1 pill), regarding effectiveness and strength of meds, and regarding less side effects. Typical side effects of pills are things like high blood pressure, diabetes, and liver toxicity over extended time, but I know plenty of people that never got any of that. Of course if someone doesn't take any HIV medicine they will die - make no mistake about it. Again, everyone is different, so whether the HIV turns into AIDS quickly or slowly differs. And yes, it is a humiliating, sad, painful death.



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