Could Hospital Mix Up My Blood

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Couples With Mixed HIV Status

Serodiscordant Couples What Are the Special Issues for Mixed Couples? Reducing the Risks Using a Condom Other Ways to Reduce Risk If You Are Exposed to HIV ... Having Children if the Man Has HIV Having Children if the Woman has HIV Serodiscordant Couples Couples with one person who is HIV-positive and one who is HIV-negative are sometimes called "serodiscordant" or "mixed serostatus". "Sero-" refers to blood serum....

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Blood Pressure Meds and HIV Meds -- Not a good mix

I'm in a medication rut. I've failed nearly every class of medications for blood pressure out there; some due to side effects (metabolic reactions with HIV meds, that were never known at the time), and the rest due to my body being...

Response from Keith Henry, M.D.

University of Minnesota, School of Medicine

Blood pressure control can be challenging even in the general population. In many cases low (better tolerated) doses of 2-3 classes of BP meds are needed (such as a B blocker, a diuretic, and an ACE inhibitor) so mixing and matching with frequent... Read more »

mixed status (WHEN TO START TREATMENT, 2011)

Dr Franscino,I am positively charged and I am treatment naive. My CD4 is 526 and my VL is 317 (down from 379 May 2010)My wife is negative and I would like to keep it that way and we practise safe sex every time.On the 1 Jan 2011 we had a condom...

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

Hello Mr. K from South Africa,I would advise that beginning antiretroviral therapy would not only drive your HIV plasma viral load to undetectable levels and significantly decrease any chance of transmission to your HIV-negative wife, but it would... Read more »

new blood cleaner in hospitals?

Hi I just read an article on a company called Aethlon medical: that would like to clean blood in hospitals, for the purpose of MRSA, HIV, Hep etc... You would be hooked up to a dialysis machine and clean blood would be returned. Do you see this in...

Response from Brian Conway, M.D.

University of British Columbia

The Hemopurifier device of Aethlon Medical would, in theory, bind envoloped viruses in a dialysis-type cartridge that is appropriately coated to do so. The blood would be run through the cartridge, and infected blood would go in, and less infected... Read more »

Blood Exposure in Hospital

Hi Dr. Bob, this question has been answered before but there is a little twist to it with a mucous membrane involved. I was in a hospital today visiting and touched a bed that had fresh blood on it (not from the person I was visiting but someone who...

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

Hello,Actually, you do have a major health risk, but it's not HIV. Your HIV-acquisition risk is exactly nothing, zero, nulla, nada, bubkes! However, chewing tobacco can and often does lead to mouth and throat cancer that is horribly disfiguring... Read more »

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other poz women in mixed status relationships?

Posted by artemis, 10 Replies

hi ~ i am new here. i am 29, female, poz, with a neg guy for the last couple years. it is such a journey. we do a pretty good job at staying open with our communication and sometimes the hiv feels like a miniscule issue, sometimes like an... Read more »

Side effects & a 2 week hospital stay

Posted by LuvDaPug, 9 Replies

Hello Folks :)
I hope someone out there reads this post, and knows someone or something that can HELP us.
I will do my best while explaining what has happened to a basic so your not sitting here reading this all day.
My husband has HIV and was on a... Read more »

A cure for HIV could be all in the 'mix'

Posted by new2this2010

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-08/bc-acf081710.php Read more »

Mixed Couple-French Kissing

Posted by Anonymous, 2 Replies

Hi,
We are planning to have protected sex, but what are the realistic risks for the neg partner with open mouth(french kissing). Someone please help.
Thanks!

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