how is the body fluids affected in an HIV patient on ARVs?
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Simple ! The intake of ARVs inhibits the reproduction of the HIV virus thus reducing the Viral Load in the blood and other body fluids.\n\nARVs do not change the molecular structure of body fluids.
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HIV is a bloodborne, fluid pathogen, That means there must be an exchange of body fluid. example the person with the infection bit u and broke the skin. HIV while the majority of the virus is in the blood stream can and is spread thru other body fluids such as semen, saliva and vaginal fluids of course the other person must have abrasions, cuts, tears in order for the virus to enter their body. Remember even minute microscopic abrasion can let the virus enter your body.\n\nHope that helps and perhaps brings you some peace of mind.\nbest of luck.
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The aids virus is carried in the blood - it cannot live on the surface of things like doorknobs and walls.  It has to have the heat and other things in the blood.  So, just touching the same places that the person with aids does will not give you aids.\n\nIf, however, that person should have an accident and you or someone else needed to help them with a wound where they were bleeding (or mouth-to-mouth resuscitation) you should do so only with rubber gloves.\n\nPlease don't worry so much.  It is not that easy to contract aids except through sexual contact or blood transfusions.
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only fluid transfer causes aids, i believe saliva doesn't count but dont quote me on that
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Based on my knowledge on this issue, if blood is exposed out in the open (air), the virus inside can only survive for a few seconds. Therefore it won't be harmful.\n\nReading from your statement you mentioned it was a fresh stain. I will imply it as dry.\n\nIf you are still worried you can always go for a HIV testing. There's only one test to see whether you're HIV positive or not. Most government hospitals give free testing and the result is strictly private and confidential.\n\nDo inform the doctor of how this matter came to be. There is a 'window period' which means that you might/might not carry the HIV virus. This 'window period' means you have to go for regular testing because they can't detect the virus for a certain period of time. \n\nHope this helps.
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The key is for certain bodily fluids to be exchanged between two people -- one of whom has HIV.\n\nMajor ways include:\na) Unprotected sex (certain types are riskier than others).  This includes M/M (probably highest risk), F/F and F/M (probably the greatest current source of spread).\nb) Blood transfusions in the early 80s (not now);\nc) IV drug abuse with shared needles;\nd) Accidental exposure of health care workers (needle stick, surgery nick)\ne) HIV positive moms to newborns.\n\nOther ways that are, at least in theory, possible (if very rare or undocumented): \na) contaminated medical instruments (there is thought to be one case in Florida with dental intruments that had not been properly sterilized)\nb) Any other fluid exchange.  For example kissing is thought to be very low risk.  OTOH, if both persons had open wounds inside the mouth...\nc) Blood to blood contact (i.e., boxing).
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well AIDS is caused by HIV retrovirus . it affects the immune system by drastically reducing the number of white blood cells in the blood stream . if a person gets AIDS he/she is prone 2 evry disease in the wrld cuz of their weak immune system. a person has 2 b HIV positive 2 determine if he/she has AIDS . a person might eventually die of  AIDS . i said MIGHT therez a chance of survival ... but the person has 2 take a regular dosage of medicines 2 keep away frum diseases and there are chances of the disease spreading to the affected pplz children 2 . once again i sad CHANCES. hope i helped.\n\ncheers\nanu
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Why is everyone so uneducated...\npick up a book and read..\nHIV is not as contractible as everyone makes it out to be,\nyes it is contracted through blood, blood products, semen and vaginal fluids\nbut\nit is a virus that is highly unstable outside of it's environment\nThere are considerable low amounts of virus found in saliva but not enough to contract HIV through. Even needle stick injuries to health care providers have a 0.3% chance of contracting HIV and still it would depend on several factors such as,\nwhat stage was the person with HIV, if they were on a drug regime, how much virus was in the blood, how much blood you came in contact with, and if the blood was transmitted through an artery or vein.\n\nIt is silly to be worried about contracting HIV through a french kiss what you should be really worried about is contracting Hep C
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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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Yes - the release of ANY bodily fluid is enough to transmit the AIDS virus. Please take this very seriously if you don't want to get the disease. Look into methods of protection for oral sex - dental dams, using a condom -
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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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Health workers who handle the body fluids of AIDS victims are at risk. Also, prior to blood screening for the virus, many people contracted the disease through transfusions. Drinking infected mother’s breast milk can infect a baby. \n\nAlong with health workers, infants, and those contracting HIV through transfusions, are many women and children caught up in many kinds of sexual abuse and slavery.
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There is no proof for such possibility. The virus has a very weak environmental susceptibility and is not able to be transmitted via contaminated surfaces. Modes of transmission are sexual, vertical, blood or blood components transfusion, broken skin+infected blood and contaminated needles used by injection drug users.\nThe disease is diagnosed when an opportunistic infection e.g. P Cranii P or malignancy e.g. K. Sarcoma are detected, HIV antibodies in the blood and the increased numbers of T cells in the blood.
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Hello:\nThis is in response to your question posted about symptoms of HIV. I treat a lot of patients with HIV and AIDS. There is a difference. Being HIV positive means simply that you have been exposed to the virus and infected. More often than not, people have no symptoms at all. There is a syndrome called "acute retroviral syndrome" which can occur weeks to a few months after being infected. The symptoms are like having a flu. Fever, swollen lymph nodes, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, fatigue, malaise, sore throat, muscle and joint aches, and a diffuse rash on the body however, this resolves soon and the person thinks he/she just had a flu or bad cold. Most HIV patients have no symptoms until their T-cell CD4 counts get below a certain number and their viral load (the number of copies of virus in 1 ml of blood) rises above a certain number. When these two things happen, the patient will begin to develop symptoms, ie. more colds, more viral infections, pneumonia, bronchitis, yeast infections, thrush, skin rashes. Then there is what are called "AIDS-defining illnesses". Examples include esophageal "thrush", pneumocystis pneumonia ("PCP"), kaposi sarcoma (a type of skin cancer that are deep purple in color) just to name a few.  The only real way you know if you have HIV is to have the HIV 1&2 antibody test done by your physician. This can be done by blood draw, or more simply a swab of your mouth/saliva. If positive, then the doc will check your viral load and T-cell counts. Usually symptoms do not start appearing until the T-lymphocyte cell count falls below 200. HIV is not a death sentence like it was originally. Most people infected with HIV back in the early 80's to mid 90's went on to develop full blown AIDS due to lack of anti-retroviral drugs. Currently, the are many HIV drugs that target the virus replication, entry into the T-cells, ability of virus to form its protein coat, and some others that act in a different manner that are in the drug pipeline but not currently available. Rarely in the United States do you see AIDS defining illnesses and people are living much longer now. I have a patient I treat who was diagnosed in 1988 and he is still very much alive and kicking thanks to the many drug cocktails available to keep the virus at bay. In fact, the virus is undetectable in his bloodstream now and his T-cell counts are back to normal.\nI hope this helped answer your questions.\nRegards, \nWarren Shaffer, M.D.
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Hi, HIV wouldnt change the color or blood....\n\nthe color of blood has nothing to do with the immune cells such as white blood cells or any other component or the defense system found in blood (T cells, B cells, macrophages, Neutrophils, Lymphocytes, Eosinophils, Basophils).  The red color of blood comes from the red blood cells and the hemoglobin component that each RBC contains.  This accounts for the red color of oxygenated blood as the heme complex is red when in contact with oxygen.  The heme complex appears blue when oxygen is not bound to hemoglobin. This is why the veins in your forearms for example appear blue.
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Both males and females are equally able to transmit the HIV virus. Vaginal fluids carry the virus in the same way the seminal fluids do. If you have any other questions, please do not hesitate to contact your local department of public health. Free testing is available, as well as risk reduction, and post-infection counseling.
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Causes: Unprotected sex with someone who's HIV positive, Blood transfusion with HIV Positive blood, sharing drug needles with an HIV positive person.\n\nEffects: Potential for Serious illness, compromised immune system, death due to complications from such illnesses. Also, effects include shame, fear, isolation, depression, and hesitancy to have children for fear of passing on the disease.