are the anti-Hiv drugs harmful to the fetus?
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Several drugs have been determined safe to use when pregnant:  \n\nfor NRTIs:  Retrovir and Epivir.\n\nFor NNRTIs:  Viramune\n\nfor Protease Inhibitors:  Viracept and Fortovase
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Difficult question to answer.  Coumadin (warfarin) is known to cause birth defects in pregnancy.  However, you can use heparin in pregnancy, but this includes shots one to two times daily.  These drugs are used to prevent clots from developing in the atrium.  If clots were to develop, they could go to your lungs, brain, heart, or any other part of your body, including uterus and placenta.  This could cause harm to the developing fetus.  Also, some of the drugs used to control the rate of A Fib can cause birth defects.  It is best to tell your primary care doctor ASAP if you find out you are pregnant.  Also, if you are trying to get pregnant, you should consult with your OB/GYN, cardiologist, and primary care doctors regarding what drug changes need to be made.  \n\nHope this was helpful.  Intended to be informative, but not offer medical opinions or care.
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Well it depends if you are taking about narcotics (controlled drugs) or pregnancy drugs or what.\n\nControlled drugs are classified as I-V. (one through five)\n\nSchedule I drugs are illegal. They can include Ecstasy, Heroin, GHB, Peyote, Marijuana and more.\n\nSchedule II drugs can be: Oxycodone, Morphine, Ritilin, Fentanyl, Hydromorphone and more.\n\nSchedule III drugs can be: Ketamine, Vicodin / Tylenol 3, and more.\n\nSchedule IV drugs can be: Ambiem,  Xanax, Librium, Valium and more.\n\nSchedule V drugs can be: Cough suppressants containing small amounts of codeine, Diphenoxylate, and more.\n\nPregnancy drugs are classified as being either category A, B, C, D, or X.\n\nA is fine for pregnant woman.\n\nB include prenatal vitamins, acetaminophen (Tylenol) and several other medications used routinely and safely during pregnancy.\n\nC drugs have been shown to be harmful to fetuses, however, there are some reasons to be more concerned about these drugs than Category B drugs.\n\nCategory D drugs have some significant risks. They should be used during pregnancy only when the alternatives are worse.\n\nAnd X should absolutely not be used.
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Transmission From Mother to Child, Can Be Greatly Cut, AZT Used to Be Used for this, Maybe the Drugs Now Are Prohibitively Expensive In India, I Think they Need Only to Be Used Shortly Before Birth (a Few Days).
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yes it will cause AIDS be careful
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No way.  I would have the baby.  The percentage of babies being born with HIV to HIV positive mothers has gotten so small.  With proper treatment you can be assured that your baby would most likely not be born HIV positive.  The interesting thing is that in Africa there were mothers that were HIV positive and not knowing this breast fed their babies and then passed the HIV virus on to their babies.  Of course most people would agree that breast milk is best, and in some third world countries this is the only choice they have.  But with the growing number of African people getting aids more international groups are trying to educate, test, and pass out condoms to many groups.  Here in the united states we have the information right at hand to educate ourselves about aids (Internet, doctors, health clinics) but  people in other countries are just starting to understand what the AIDS thing is all about.  If you are in fact pregnant, and this question is not a hypothetical one, then I think you should def. talk to someone about HIV and what the options are for your unborn child.  If you decide to have the baby, and for reasons of your own do not want to keep it, adoption is a great thing to do.  I have two children, but given the chance I would adopt in a heartbeat.  I will keep you, hypothetical question or not in my prayers.
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Don't know how urine therapy is going to help the trasnmission of HIV/AIDS. Boosting the immune system is great but aids is a highly specific virus that attacks T-cells and macrophages. Often times the fetus is taken as a forgeign entity and attacked by the mother's own body. By these very same leukocytes. I don't know how likely it is but I would assume the chance is very high for transmission to occur. We can't even cure AIds at this stage in time. How could we isolate the disease in one area of our body and keep it from others. It's not entirely feasible.
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Talk to your pharmacist and/or doctor, but this is what I found:\n\n"Phenylephrine or neosynephrine is in the FDA pregnancy category C."\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenylephrine\n\n"Pregnancy Category C:  Animal reproduction studies have shown an adverse effect on the fetus and there are no adequate and well-controlled studies in humans, but potential benefits may warrant use of the drug in pregnant women despite potential risks."\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pregnancy_category
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I'm ARh- and both my husbands were ARh+.  I've had three children.  After the first one, I was given something called Anti D Serum so that the next baby would be OK.  Same thing happened after my second child.  All 3 babies were fine.  This was free (in the UK - thank goodness for the National Health Service).  Don't know what happens elsewhere.
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Well you could have a child but i think it can catch the virus and so will ur partner so you can adopt. I know it won't really make you happy as a one from your womb but from my experience w/ my aunt (who had the disease) and my uncle(who didn't)- there baby is HIV. Just go to a sophiticated doctor who can really give you all the details.
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WARNING: Do not use Yahoo! Answers as a medical diagnosis tool.  Always consult your doctor.\n\nWithin 7-10 days of intially being infected with HIV, most individuals (80 to 90 %) develop an acute syndrome characterised by flu-like symptoms of fever, malaise, lymphadenopathy, pharyngitis, headache, myalgia, and sometimes a rash (Kahn and Walker, 1998). Within an average of three weeks after transmission of HIV-1, a broad HIV-1 specific immune response occurs that includes seroconversion. Because of the nonspecific nature of these illnesses, it is often not recognized as a sign of HIV infection. Even if patients go to their doctors or a hospital, they will often be misdiagnosed as having one of the more common infectious diseases with the same symptoms. Since not all patients develop it, and since the same symptoms can be caused by many other common diseases, it cannot be used as an indicator of HIV infection. However, recognizing the syndrome is important because the patient is much more infectious during this period.\n\nHIV is transmitted various ways:\n Sexual route. The majority of HIV infections are acquired through unprotected sexual relations. Sexual transmission occurs when there is contact between sexual secretions of one partner with the rectal, genital or mouth mucous membranes of another. The probability of transmission per act is between 1 in 53 to 1 in 10,000 for the case of receptive vaginal sex (Pilcher et al., 2004), 1 in 8000 in the case of insertive vaginal sex, 1 in 1000 in the case of insertive anal sex, and between 1 in 100 to 1 in 30 in the case of receptive anal sex.\n\nBlood or blood product route. This transmission route is particularly important for intravenous drug users, hemophiliacs and recipients of blood transfusions and blood products. Health care workers (nurses, laboratory workers, doctors, etc) are also concerned, although more rarely. Also concerned by this route are people who give and receive tattoos and piercings.\n\nMother-to-child route. The transmission of the virus from the mother to the child can occur in utero during the last weeks of pregnancy and at childbirth. Breast feeding also presents a risk of infection for the baby. In the absence of treatment, the transmission rate between the mother and child was 20%. However, where treatment is available, combined with the availability of Cesarian section, this has been reduced to 1%.\n\nHIV has been found in the saliva, tears and urine of infected individuals, but due to the low concentration of virus in these biological liquids, the risk is considered to be negligible.\n\nAIDS is the most severe manifestation of infection with HIV. Acute HIV infection progresses over time to clinical latent HIV infection and then to early symptomatic HIV infection and later, to AIDS, which is identified on the basis of certain infections.\n\nYou can get HIV at-home test kits at Walgreen's.
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A single dose of methamphetamine, taken by pregnant women can cause long-term neurodevelopmental problems in their babies.According to the researchers, the fetus may be vulnerable to DNA damage from methamphetamine because the fetus hasn't yet developed enzymes that protect it against destructive free radicals. Speed, or "crystal meth," enhances free radical formation.
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How is HIV Transmitted?      \n\nHIV can be transmitted from an infected person to another through:\n\nBlood (including menstrual blood) \nSemen \nVaginal secretions \nBreast milk \nBlood contains the highest concentration of the virus, followed by semen, followed by vaginal fluids, followed by breast milk.\n\n* Activities That Allow HIV Transmission\n\nUnprotected sexual contact \nDirect blood contact, including injection drug needles, blood transfusions, accidents in health care settings or certain blood products \nMother to baby (before or during birth, or through breast milk) \nSexual intercourse (vaginal and anal): In the genitals and the rectum, HIV may infect the mucous membranes directly or enter through cuts and sores caused during intercourse (many of which would be unnoticed). Vaginal and anal intercourse is a high-risk practice.\n\nOral sex (mouth-penis, mouth-vagina): The mouth is an inhospitable environment for HIV (in semen, vaginal fluid or blood), meaning the risk of HIV transmission through the throat, gums, and oral membranes is lower than through vaginal or anal membranes. There are however, documented cases where HIV was transmitted orally, so we can't say that getting HIV-infected semen, vaginal fluid or blood in the mouth is without risk. However, oral sex is considered a low risk practice.\n\nSharing injection needles: An injection needle can pass blood directly from one person's bloodstream to another. It is a very efficient way to transmit a blood-borne virus. Sharing needles is considered a high-risk practice.\n\nMother to Child: It is possible for an HIV-infected mother to pass the virus directly before or during birth, or through breast milk. Breast milk contains HIV, and while small amounts of breast milk do not pose significant threat of infection to adults, it is a viable means of transmission to infants.\n\nThe following "bodily fluids" are NOT infectious:\n\nSaliva \nTears \nSweat \nFeces \nUrine
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Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS or Aids) is a collection of symptoms and infections in humans resulting from the specific damage to the immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).[1] The late stage of the condition leaves individuals prone to opportunistic infections and tumors. Although treatments for AIDS and HIV exist to slow the virus's progression, there is no known cure. 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.[2][3] This transmission can come in the form of anal, vaginal or oral sex, blood transfusion, contaminated hypodermic needles, exchange between mother and baby during pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding, or other exposure to one of the above bodily fluids.\n\nMost researchers believe that HIV originated in sub-Saharan Africa during the twentieth century;[4] it is now a pandemic, with an estimated 38.6 million people now living with the disease worldwide.[5] As of January 2006, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the World Health Organization (WHO) estimate that AIDS has killed more than 25 million people since it was first recognized on June 5, 1981, making it one of the most destructive epidemics in recorded history. In 2005 alone, AIDS claimed an estimated 2.4–3.3 million lives, of which more than 570,000 were children.[5] A third of these deaths are occurring in sub-Saharan Africa, retarding economic growth and destroying human capital. Antiretroviral treatment reduces both the mortality and the morbidity of HIV infection, but routine access to antiretroviral medication is not available in all countries.[6] HIV/AIDS stigma is more severe than that associated with other life-threatening conditions and extends beyond the disease itself to providers and even volunteers involved with the care of people living with HIV.\n\nTAKE CARE AND GOOD LUCK !
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I know that for years now there has been legislature passed and then revoked for manditory AIDS testing in the US for people in high risk areas, ie. prostitutes, drug abusers, health care workers, etc.  But I dont' believe it has yet officially passed.  A few months ago I read where Bill Clinton wanted mandatory testing for high risk countries...I don't know what came of it though.  Here is the article if you want to read it.\n\nIf you have a baby now at my docs office you have to have an HIV test done.  I don't mind, I am sure there are some people out there who may not want to know, or don't want their docs to know.  \n\nThis might be a tough topic to research, but very interesting to see where you end up with it, which means it will make a good paper.  Maybe you could also research the benefits of finding out early, going through the painful treatment for it and feeling that the energy and joy has been removed from your life because the treatments are so exhausting  vs. not finding out until you are very ill, yet you had lived a happy life until then, without the painful treatement.  Either way, you end up dying eventually, right?\n\nIt's an interesting debate.  Like I said, I wonder where in the spectrum you will end up when finished.
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Those are anti-HIV medications aren't they?\n\nI'm not sure about the drug interactions - but I know that Meth makes HIV replicate at a higher rate than when you're not using meth.  Essentially, you're getting more infectious and making yourself sicker everytime you use meth.\n\nMeth also affects the same neurotransmitters in the brain that HIV does.  Many meth users with AIDS progress to dementia much sooner than non-meth using AIDS patients.\n\nIf you're not concerned about your own health, that's your own perrogitive.  I really hope you're protecting your partners though by wearing a condom, or making them wear one.
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Although their is a strong likelihood that with treatment their baby can come through the process without developing AIDS, I am certain that the decision is very personal. The mother will not be around to raise said child. Adoption is often out because many people do not want to adopt a baby that may be HIV positive. The fact is that the tests are not conclusive until the child is 2 years of age due to antibodies from the mother.