HIV Treatment Questions

Please Low cd4 count occurs in hiv infection Low cd4 count is responsible for low immunity Good cd4 count means good immunity.

Problem is of 7 weeks pregnacy with a miniscule rise in sgpt,(without rise in sgot). This does not seem to be a serious thing. It may be simple lab error. But it is prudent to follow every month with sgot, sgpt,PT INR, BP, URINE EXAMINATION, under supervision of your doctor supervising pregnancy. Meanwhile enjoy life as an expectant mother would do.

POSITIVE FOR WHICH DISEASE ?

If it s HIV then you can start Post Exposure Prophuylaxis medicine that can prevent infection but this medicine must be start within 72 hours of exposure and you have to take this medicine for 28 days

Cancer, cause is not know, not transferred from one to another.
HIV transmission is through sex, blood and mother to child.

It generally takes 3 to 12 months for HIV viruses to multiply and increase in number to have HIV reactive status in any exposed person! If you had the exposure within last 72 hours kindly rush to your nearest ART centre and start PEP which have a good success rate in preventing the HIV from replicating or making them negligible in your body.

Generally it takes three to 12 months for HIV tests to be reactive till then we can say that wait and use condoms! If after 13 months of unprotected sexual intercourse you are still non reactive to HIV then you made a narrow escape!

Not recommended for herpes simplex virus (HSV) testing; IgM lacks adequate predictive value for acute infection. If pursing antibody testing, refer to Herpes Simplex Type 1 and Type 2 Glycoprotein G-Specific Antibodies, IgG by CIA . If acute HSV infection is suspected, molecular testing is preferred (refer to Herpes Simplex Virus by PCR

Hiv combo test: It is now common for antibody tests to also test for antigens. These are called 4th generation tests or combined antibody/antigen (Ag/Ab) tests. In these tests the antigen being tested is a major HIV protein called p24. P24 (short for protein 24) is produced 2–3 weeks after infection and before antibodies are produced.
A reactive result from a fourth generation HIV Ab/Ag combination assay means that HIV-1 p24 antigens, HIV-1 antibodies, and/or HIV-2 antibodies were detected...more

You do not have HIV

Do not worry

Symptoms can be because of any other reason like anxiety, depression or anything else

Hey believe that the chimpanzee version of the immunodeficiency virus (called simian immunodeficiency virus or SIV) most likely was transmitted to humans and mutated into HIV when humans hunted these chimpanzees for meat and came into contact with their infected blood.