Showing posts with label aids. Show all posts
Showing posts with label aids. Show all posts

4/03/2008

Hazards of the oral sex - to take care!

What risk do you suppose the oral sex?
The probability that HIV is transmitted from a seropositive person to a zero negative you depend on the contact type that have been given. A bigger transmission facility of HIV exists through a relationship of anal or vaginal sex without protection (that is to say, without condom), to not share injectable material sterilized or in mother's vertical transmission to son.

You have been demonstrated that the oral sex is the less chancy activity of all these practices, but clearly it is not exempt of risk. Also, you suit to remember that other illnesses of sexual transmission, as the syphilis, the herpes and the gonorrhea, they can be transmitted easily through the oral sex.

Some years ago some studios were published on the risk of transmission of HIV through the oral sex. An American studio showed that of 122 men gay with HIV, 8% pointed out that the oral sex was your only practice of risk. Nevertheless, some of the entrants in this studio that initially manifested that the oral sex had been your only activity of risk, they admitted book credit anal maintained sex next without protection. A recent studio didn't find any case of transmission of HIV for oral sex in a 10 year-old period in more than tuneless 100 even zero, that is to say, one seropositive and another negative zero.

When is the oral sex chancier?
A risk exists bigger than transmission of HIV through the oral sex if the carrier suffers some illness of sexual transmission that have not been treated. An increased risk exists of being infected with HIV by oral sex if you are courts, wounds or abrasions in the mouth or in the gums, or if one has some infection, included those of sexual transmission, in the throat or in the mouth that are producing inflammation.

The viral load tests indicate that they can almost always be particles of HIV in the semen. To have a high viral load in blood can also indicate a high viral load concentration in semen, but not necessarily the other way around: although the viral load in the blood is undetectable, it cannot be it in the semen. Consequently, you are not safe to assume that taking therapy antirretroviral always decreases the infectious capacity of the semen or you are protected the sexual partners.

In the case of the vaginal flow the levels of HIV vary. These levels are probably even bigger in the period of menstruation: when the cells carriers of HIV come off of the cervix, you are a balance of probabilities that they are in the vaginal flow, together with the blood. Therefore, the oral sex would be chancier during the period of the menstruation.

How can they decrease the risks?
Many ways exist of reducing the risks in the oral sex. Naturally, for each person, some will be more acceptable than other, for that that each one debit side to make your own decision on the risk level that consider acceptable. If you want to speak of this topic, you request an appointment with an agent of health or with another professional of the health of your treatment centre or genitourinary clinic. Many of the following strategies can also offer protection against other illnesses of sexual transmission:

* You can decide that the risk of the oral sex is sufficiently low for you and to continue regularly with your practices.

* You can opt to not having oral sex because you not even want to run a low risk of transmission of HIV

* You can decide to reduce the number of even with who oral practical sex.

* You can decide to have oral sex with barriers protectors like the condom for the oral sex with men or the latex (dental dams) square for oral sex with women.

* You can decide not to ejaculate in your partner's mouth / to or that they don't ejaculate in your mouth.

* You can decide not to have oral sex with a woman while your menstrual period lasts.

* You monitor your mouth. The probability of transmission of HIV for via oral it is increased if they have bleeding gums, you ulcerate, cut or mouth sores. Before practicing oral sex, you avoid to brush yourself without stopping the teeth or the use dental (you prevent the microrrupturas in the gums).

* You go to regular revisions of sexual health. You would allow you to identify if you have an illness of sexual transmission that could increase the probability of transmitting HIV to a partner negative sexual zero, and to reduce the probability of contracting HIV if you are negative zero.

3/23/2008

The 10 Today Illnesses

1. AIDS
Twenty-five years since you were identified for the first time and you still are not cure for the Acquired immune deficiency syndrome. AIDS continues being among the strongest murderers in the world, especially in the industrialised countries. A recent studio confirmed that the illness probably began with a jump from the chimpanzees to the humans.

2. Alzheimer
Not it is necessary to confuse it by heart with the ullage that you affect most in your last years, Alzheimer is an illness neurodegenerativa that are manifested in a different way in each one that suffer it. The exact lawsuit has understood each other and it cannot be treated efficiently.

3. Common cold
Even with a thousand million dear cases in the United States every year, the physicians still know very little envelope the nasal secretion, nasal engorgement and I sneeze. On the average, the children have from 3 to 8 caught a cold per annum and they continue having them during the whole childhood. The parents are usually contagious of the children. The colds are the most communio reason for which the children miss the school and the parents to your work. When somebody has a cold, the nasal secretion you are acknowledged of the viruses that cause it and the sneezes, the same as to sound or to be dried the nose, they spread them. A cold you can acquire inhaling the virus in the event of being seated near somebody that sneeze or when being played the nose, the eyes or the mouth after played book credit something infected by the virus. The time and the chicken consommé are often the only prescription that you help.

4. You seize to prepare
The humans don't have defence for the powerful flu to prepare transmitted by the birds, you are an official fear for the health that you can mutar in a variety that can be transmitted among human. The death rate for the infected humans is around 50%, but up to now most of the humans have been infected by the direct contact with the infected birds. However, a recent series of cases seems that one could book credit extended among people.

5. You itch
The pike is the intake of substances different to the foods. The mud, the dirt, the ice, the starch, the animal feces, the paint and the hair balls are only some few examples of what are known that the children and the adults eat with pike. In some cases, nutritional specific deficiencies, as the anaemia ferropénica and the deficiency of zinc, they can unchain this vehement unusual desire.
6. Dysfunctions autoinmunes
The dysfunctions of the immune system show up when the immune answer is inappropriate, excessive or you are not such an answer. The dysfunctions autoinmunes are developed when the immune system destroys the normal tissues of the body, that which are caused by a reaction of similar hypersensitivity to the allergies where the immune system reacts to a substance that, usually, you would ignore. The dysfunctions autoinmunes cause destruction of more than one or more types of tissue of the body, abnormal increment or changes in the feature of an organ. This dysfunction can only affect an organ or a tissue type or it can affect multiple organs or tissues.

7. Schizophrenia
The experts consider to the schizophrenia the most mysterious in the mental disturbances, this you cancel the capacity of the diseased one to distinguish logically between the reality and the fantasy. The symptoms vary completely among the patients including illusions, hallucinations, you speak disorganized, motivation ullage or emotion. The experts in the field are not still exactly safe of which your lawsuit is and some physicians consider that the brain can be unable to process the information in the correct way.

8. Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
A version of this extraneous brain disorder is the acquaintance as "bad of the crazy" cows and it can be contracted eating flesh of infected cow. The Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is a brain damage form that cause a quick decrease of the mental feature and of the movement. You are developed in most of patients by reasons that the physicians still have to understand and you cannot avoid.

9. Syndrome of fatigue chronicle
You are an affection of fatigue or strong and prolonged (you tire) attrition that it are not alleviated with the recess and you are not caused in direct form by other illnesses. The Centers for the Disease control describe the syndrome of fatigue chronicle as a dysfunction different with symptoms and physical specific signs, being based on the discard of other possible lawsuits.
More information in MedlinePlus.

10. Illness of Morgellons
This mysterious illness that recently has arisen again, you show symptoms almost of science-fiction. The sick persons have the feeling of being infected for petty insects or acarids like acarids, lice, fleas, spiders, worms, bacteria or other organisms that generate you an itch sensation in the skin. He/she usually accompanies of injuries in this field generated by the one scratched and frequently it is observed in the chronic consumers of cocaine. Some in the medical community toss the blame from the illness to an illusion psicótica, but others say that the symptoms are very actual.

3/06/2008

They obtain a vaccine model against the been administered for via respiratory

An international consortium has opened the way in the development of a cautionary vaccine against the virus from the AIDS when obtaining a model that could be administered by means of aerosols and for via respiratory.

The work whose conclusions are published in the magazine Proceedings of National the Academy of Sciences (PNAS), reveals that in the new test, sampled in ugly and in human in clinical initial phase, you have given positive results. This "vaccine" uses modified antigens of HIV, a substance that give place to the formation of antibodies. These antigens are used with the purpose of activating in the organism a cellular answer and humoral against the virus.

The management of the vaccine for via respiratory it would facilitate your use in programas in developing countries and you would suppose a saving of the sanitary necessary material.

For this reason, the scientists trust to continue with new clinical trials with the purpose of confirming a high inmunogenicidad again in monkeys and human in front of SIV (Virus of the immunodeficiency of the simians) and HIV.

12/06/2007

AIDS

FORMS OF INFECTION
Three are only the proven transmission paths:
Relate sexual vaginal, oral or annals (with men and women) without protection.
The oral sex is practical of risk for the one that puts the mouth. Equally it is advisable that both are protected to avoid the transmission of other infections.

The step of the virus in the sexual relationships is carried out through the injuries or microscopic wounds that take place during the penetration and other sexual practices, for where the fluids of who has the virus enter to the couple's body.

Injection or transfusion of non controlled blood. This mechanism includes with outstanding character the shared use of injection instruments in the population of injection drug users. The transmission is given through the exchange of needles and/or any acute element. The virus can also be transmitted by non controlled transfusions of blood.

Perinatal transmission, of mother to son, during the pregnancy, the childbirth and the nursing.

As you leave, they are few and very defined the proven transmission paths and, in all the cases, they involve body fluids like blood, liquid preseminal, semen, vaginal secretions and breast milk.

The above-mentioned thing also presupposes the NON existence of other mechanisms of transmission of popular frequent concern, such as the mosquito, the mat, the depilation, the swimming piletas, the carefulness odontológica, etc.

Finally, isolated cases that demonstrate exist that although remote, it is possible the transmission product of the personnel staff of health fortuitous exhibition, that that on the other hand is not but a special form of transmission for blood and body fluids.

The sexual channel is responsible for 3 of each 4 cases of transmission of HIV. Of the cases transmitted for via sexual (80% of the total), he/she is considered that 90% corresponds to heterosexual exhibition and 10% to homosexual exhibition. Diverse studios indicate a balance of probabilities of man's transmission to woman, comparative with infected woman's transmission to uninfected man, that that anyway doesn't authorize to reject this risk.

The transmission mother - son that outlines the main mechanism of acquisition of AIDS for the children, constitutes a problem of extraordinary importance, if one keeps in mind that the person infected by HIV groups for the most part in the sexually active population. Of not receiving adjusted health care, a positive mother HIV that is embarrassed has a chance on three of giving birth to an infected boy, the one that in turn enters high probabilities of developing the illness in the first years of life. This status maintained in the time, it can generate a notable increase of the infant mortality in diverse countries, especially the Africans.

Not they are infection forms:
• To shake hands to a sick person or infected.
• To use the same bathroom that previously a sick person has used.
• Stings of insects or bites of domestic or wild-type animals.
• To play with another diseased boy.
• To share the same class classroom.
• Caresses or close contacts.
• Kisses in the cheek.
• To chat very close with an infected person.
• To feed a sick person.
• To use pools publishes.
• To use the same soap.
• To take a bath to the sick persons.
• To share the use of plates.
• To cough or to sneeze.
• To hug and to give affection to a sick person.

Analysis and where podés to make it to you.
The test of HIV (Human immunodeficiency virus) consists on a blood test that detects the appearance of antibodies to the HIV. This test calls herself ELISA (I Assay inmuno enzymatic absorvente) and it is not specific of this infection, in and of itself, it should be confirmed with another named test Western Blot, in the event of giving ELISA a positive result. Instead of ELISA, the patient can also be carried out the test of MEIA (enzymatic method of inmuno analysis).

The human body usually produces antibodies to fight against the illnesses. In the case of the HIV the antibodies only show that the person is infected for the virus. To be infected means that the virus is present in the body and that, of not taking the corresponding diligences, it can infect other people, although it feels well and don't have symptom some. To be infected, it is not the same thing that to have AIDS.

The results
A positive result means that they are antibodies of the HIV in its blood. This means that it is carrier of the HIV, not that he/she has AIDS. It is important to know that it can infect another person if it maintains sexual relationships without protection (without preservative) or for direct contact of blood with blood. These people should always be protected in their sexual relationships for not running re-infection risk, therefore, they should avoid that the HIV enters in its organism again, since that would raise the possibility to contract AIDS.

If the result is negative, it means that they were not antibodies to the HIV in the blood. To be safe of the result of the analysis he/she should wait until a maximum of 6 months after the status of risk.

How is he/she carried out?
Through a blood test, with a previous fast of 8 hours, one will be able to know the result of the test. The patient should be bigger than 18 years, otherwise, you/he/she will be authorized by a general ledger. If it is not for a control routine, it is recommended to carry out the test three months after the status of risk.

The results are available after one week to 15 days of having carried out the test.

How much does it cost?
The test is carried out in an ungrounded way in all the municipal hospitals.

When is it convenient to carry out the test?
The detection is systematic and mandatory among the donators of blood, of sperm, of organs and of tissues to avoid the transmission from the virus to the receiver.

It is also advisable for all professional of the health that has suffered an accident with risk of potential contamination, especially in the event of wounds with spotted material of blood.

Exposed people to the infection (multiple even), or simply after the sexual contact without protection, (heterosexual, homosexual or bisexual) the addicts to drugs for via endovenosa and people coming from countries where the infection rate is high they should be carried out the test.

The pregnant women should also carry out the test like form of diligence.

How long should it lapse after an infecting contact so that the test is positive?

The antibodies appear after a certain time, from 3 to 12 weeks like average.

The test to detect antibodies is therefore negative at the beginning of the infection although the person is carrier of the virus. The positivización of the test corresponds to the appearance of antibodies, that is what is named seroconversión.

Confidentiality
The analysis of AIDS can only be made with the person's consent that is carried out it, it is confidential.