How To Manage Vomiting And Hiv

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Strategies for Managing Opportunistic Infections

Introduction Opportunistic Infections and HIV Disease Preventing Infections in the First Place Treating Infections as They Occur Preventive Treatment for OIs Maintenance Therapy A Final Word on Strategies for Managing Opportunistic Infections List of AIDS-Defining OIs from the Centers for Disease Control Introduction HIV ( human immunodeficiency virus ) infects the cells of your body's immune system. It then impairs how...

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Managing the S/E of HIV treatment

My sister has recently been diagnosed with HIV. Her CD4 count is 189. The protocol in South Africa requires that a patient is started on ART when the CD4 falls below 200. She had recently been started on a regimen of Zidovudine, Lamivudine and...

Response from Keith Henry, M.D.

University of Minnesota, School of Medicine

Erythema multiforme would generally be more often due to the efavirenz than zidovudine. Often efforts are made to treat through the rashes/skin problems seen with efavirenz,. Nevirapine is not an attractive option as an alternative to efavirenz... Read more »

PERFUSE VOMITING

A 17 year-old female w/vomiting after after or during completion of a meal. Student is very active in extracurricular activties, minimal stress from sports. Doctors have checked labs, EGD, Hidroscan, and have ruled out a lot of dx. What other...

Response from Edwin DeJesus, M.D., F.A.C.P.

The diagnosis and management of post-pandrial (after a meal) vomiting is not too complicated. You do not mention if this patient is HIV infected; if so, medications, current immunological status (CD4 count?) and the presence of opportunistic... Read more »

Vomiting when hungry

Dr H,I am on Kaletra & Combivir with cd4 at 496 & vl undetectable. I have put on 35 pounds in year since on arv's so while I am bursting at the seams my friends all tell me how good & healthy I look.I have been experiencing a very...

Response from Keith Henry, M.D.

University of Minnesota, School of Medicine

Some patients have persistent nausea/stomach problems from the AZT in Combivir or from Kaletra so a discussion of whether a switch from Combivir to perhaps Truvada or Epzicom and/or from Kaletra to alternative 3rd drug (such as efavirenz or... Read more »

Was worried for a while, passed the 3 month test, now what? (VOMIT, 2011)

Hello! First I would like to thank you for running this great site. It is a wonderful resource and place of support.I asked questions on here about 3 and 4 months ago about two incidents while bar tending that led to me fear I had contracted HIV.1....

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

Hello, Overly-Worried, Ready-to-Move-On, Grateful Young Lady.Your negative HIV-antibody test is indeed definitive, conclusive, WOO-HOO-able and move-on-able for both incidents. I agree neither incident was a real risk for HIV acquisition! See link... Read more »

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2 weeks ago I was in a mosh pit with a guy and he vomited and a little bit got on my leg. I checked my leg and I saw no blood, but I had a little cut on my leg from 20 days ago that was not actively bleeding. Could I face risk of HIV? Read more »

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