If you already had HIV and then you got a blood transfusion with HIV in it, would the HIV get worse?
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yes.many people think that those with AIDS should sleep with others who have AIDS to stop the spread and still have a sex life but it can make a person sicker so its a bad idea...and to answer your question yes.
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Peanut509 is correct that mother and baby do not share the same blood supply in utero, but the maternal blood supply IS still connected to the fetal blood supply via the umbilical cord and placenta. It is possible for HIV to pass from the mother to the baby through the placenta, thereby infecting the baby. But the chances of HIV transmission are far greater during a vaginal birth and through breastfeeding.\n\nIf an HIV positve mother received treatment prior to becoming pregnant and received treatment during her pregnancy to reduce the maternal viral load and also during labor and delivery, then the risk of transmission can be reduced. Electing to have a cesearean will also reduce the risk of the baby being infected, so that the baby is not exposed to HIV infected blood or vaginal/cervical secretions. But the baby would also have to receive antiretroviral treatment for several weeks after birth. Bottle-feeding the baby instead of breastfeeding is yet another way to reduce the risk of HIV transmission.\n\nWhile there are certain measures and precautions that can be taken to reduce the chances of HIV transmission to the baby, these measures are by no means 100% effective in preventing the baby from being infected. It would be best if you both consulted a doctor before trying to conceive, so that you know what kind of options and treatments are available. Best of luck to you both!
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Aids is a type of diasease.  It is not really contageous...  But, if someone gets a cut, and somebody else "touchs" the blood and get into the body, they are now infected...  Now, that person hads HIV from the person who got a cut.  To get HIV, which is a first base of AIDS..  a HIV has to enter a person through blood, or other ways... By blood is mainly...  **sorry but, Also, having sex with someone who has HIV will also transfer the germs..\n\nHIV will soon develope into what you are wonder about, AIDS\n\nAIDS is a farther stage HIV.  AIDS is consider when a person is going to die from HIV.   \n\nTo determine if a person has HIV, you can possible tell by if that person gets sick easily, and also a lot.  But, this is one way to get started in thinking if you do.  The best to determine is to find a specialist.  \n\n\n\nHere's the main answer\n\n\nIf one person hads AIDS or HIV, it can harm others by donating blood to others that they don't even know they have it.  Then, that would be 2 people that has HIV or AIDS.  Soon, if they give birth, that would be 4 and so on.(4th because marrage to give birth)  It is very important that you know everything about yourself before choosing to do something that can harm others.  If everyone wouldn't care, Aids and hiv would be everywhere and no one would be on earth.  This could do a lot of harm.
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You can get infected with a different strain of the virus.  The HIV virus mutants.
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Only in that children are already more susceptable to illnesses due to less mature immune systems already. Children with HIV are usually born with it, therefore are probably already suffering from the symptoms
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Unprotected sex, no matter how long can transfer Aids.  The aids may not show up in the blood for a month or two.  Hope you learned something from it, like not having sex without some sort of protection.
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Your husband should be fine.  HIV is a fragile virus and can't live outside of the body.  It dies almost instantly.  So any of the virus on the bloody clothes would be dead.  If your husband had an open wound and pressed it up against your sons open would, there maybe risk.  But he was perfectly safe handling the bloody clothes.  Still, its never a safe idea to touch blood without gloves on, regarless of if it is infected with HIV.\n\nAs far as kissing goes, you can't get HIV through kissing.  The only way there would even be a SMALL risk is if it was deep kissing and there was a lesion or cut in his gum so it was blood mixed with saliva.  Even then the risk is very small.  \n\nDon't worry, unless your husband is having unprotected sex with your son, or sharing needles with him, none of you are at rist.  \n\nI've included a link to some good information about HIV and its transmition.  Taken from that link is this information.  Visit the link to find out more.\n\nCan HIV spread through kissing? \nAnswer: Kissing such as on the cheek or lightly on the lips carries no risk of transmitting HIV. In deep kissing there is a small risk because the saliva of an infected person contains few virus particles which by itself is not sufficient to cause the infection. But there could be bleeding gums or ulcers in the mouth and exchange of infected saliva mixed with blood during kissing could transmit the HIV \n\n\nHow is HIV not transmitted?  \nAnswer: HIV cannot spread by casual contact such as touching, holding hands, body contact in crowded public places, shaking hands, working or playing together, sharing food, vessels and clothes, eating food cooked by an infected person, light kissing, mosquito and other insect bites, swimming pools, and toilets.  \n\nQuestion: How long can the virus live outside the human body? \nAnswer: The Human Immunodeficiency Virus is fragile. Once the virus is outside the body in a dry form, it dies immediately. Even in a wet state, it does not live long when exposed to heat, detergents, or disinfectants. When stored in blood banks at 4°C, it can live for about 3 weeks (or longer), or till the white cell disintegrates, but in a frozen state it can survive for years.
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The HIV virus will die pretty easily on its own - it cannot survive outside body fluids. This is fortunate, because there are very few ways it can be transmitted. Bodily fluid exchange (sexual contact, needle sharing, mother to fetus, etc) is really the only way.
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For my life between 19 and 35, I donated at my various work places for a total of 46 times.\n\nBack in the  mid 80's, folks started to hear that AIDS was contracted by "donated blood". It was kind of stupid and funny that less people volunteered their blood because the 'risk' of AIDS. \n\nOf course they have a ton of questions to try and weed out the donors that are 'practicing' homo-sexuals, going back 25 years. Even then they expect some to donate blood, - just to have their blood tested for AIDS. They give those deviants one last chance to use a bar code sticker that says "don't use my BLOOD".\n\nOh, btw, I met my wife while we were giving blood.
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I would say yes. You progess from HIV to AIDs at a point when your immune system becomes severely comprimised. For an erderly person, this point will arrive sooner due to them having a weaker immune system. HIV mainly targets T cells (but will have a go at any CD4 receptors) and so the T cell count is the one to look at. As for when - there is no way to say for sure. There are guideline figures, but they are only estimates. Check out the website in the sources list, then click on the virology banner, then pathogenisis of AIDs. This is my uni microbiology homepage, and is a good reliable source of information.
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There is no such thing as worst type of blood. The only blood one would not like to have is the one which cannot coagulate and of-course blood tainted with HIV and other infections.
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No.  There must be an exchange of body fluids to pass on HIV, and the body fluids of the HIV+ person must come in contact with the bloodstream of the other person.  \n\nIn order to pass on the disease, the scratch would have to draw blood and the HIV positive person would have to spit in the scratch or bleed into it.  A simple scratch would not pass the virus along.
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Have a test done at a medical clinic.  There are a lot of clinics that will do them for free, such as Planned Parenthood or local health departments.  Many people with early HIV infection do not have symptoms.  No one who thinks they might have HIV should give blood or expose others to their bodily fluids until they know that they aren't infected.  Exposing other people to an infected person's bodily fluids could cause those others to become infected with HIV as well.
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Aids, hepatitis, and pretty much any other blood-borne pathogen. They can all be transmitted by blood contact.
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The exact answer to this question is "yes" as everyone is gonna die sooner or later ! ;)\n\nwell, if someone is infected by HIV, he can still live 5 years with no clue that he got aids.\nafter this 5 years, things begin to appear. then if he/she caught a cold for example they might die.\nbut this is not for sure. u can be infected with AIDS and live a long life !
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Yes. HIV is transmitted through direct contact of a mucous membrane or the bloodstream with a bodily fluid containing HIV, such as blood, semen, vaginal fluid, preseminal fluid, and breast milk. This transmission can come in the form of anal, vaginal or oral sex, blood transfusion, contaminated needles, exchange between mother and baby during pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding, or other exposure to one of the above bodily fluids.
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As soon as the HIV virus leaves the body, it is pretty much dead.  The concern would be more for HPV or herpes with genital secretions.