Wouldn't curing AIDS or other blood related diseases be just a matter of draining ones blood and infusing a completly new change. (like changing oil in a car) Couldn't there also be a way of cleaning the blood outside of the body using heat to destroy the infection and reentering it into the body? Could these ideas work. why or why not?
2006-07-15 04:36:03 · 10 answers · asked by are u crazy?...cuz i am not! 3 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Other - Diseases
Wow - I like your idea. There are diseases that are treated this way - exchange transfusions and therapeutic plasma pheresis. But unfortunately the HIV virus likes to hide inside White Blood Cells. These cells are made in the bone marrow and then travel to your blood stream to all over your body. They can sequester - hang out - in your RE system which is your spleen and lymph nodes - until they are needed else where. Destroying all of your White Blood Cells through chemotherapy or whole body irradiation followed by bone marrow transplant doesn't seem to be an option either.
2006-07-15 08:04:13 · answer #1 · answered by petlover 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A blood transfusion can cause some illnesses like West Nile Virus and in the past Hepatitis C, but there are no known cases of becoming a diabetic because of the transfused blood. Since you are very newly diagnosed, your blood sugar is out of control. It will take a while to learn to control. Your doctor should send to you a diabetes educator so that you can learn to make the lifestyle changes that you need right away. These classes are extremely valuable and individualized for each person. Changing the way you eat -amounts, times, what you can/cannot have - takes a while to master. Since you are still undergoing tests and being evaluated - you should not drive. The risk of hurting yourself or someone else is too great. Do the responsible thing and recruit a driver. I hope that you are able to get a handle on this soon. Diabetics are at much greater risk for other problems like heart disease, kidney failure, neuropathy and amputations, and blindness. Keeping your blood sugar under control can help prevent these complications.
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Wouldn't curing AIDS or other blood related diseases be just a matter of draining ones blood and infusing a completly new change. (like changing oil in a car) Couldn't there also be a way of cleaning the blood outside of the body using heat to destroy the infection and reentering it into...
2015-08-12 05:26:17 · answer #5 · answered by Milda 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, it wouldn't work. Do you think only the blood of an Aids patient is affected? No. Your whole body and organs are affected by the virus. If you got new blood it would be contaminated also. Just like people with hepatitis who get liver transplants; chances are the "new" liver will also get hepatitis. If it was as easy as an "oil change", don't you think we would have this horrible disease under control? Good question, though.
2006-07-15 04:41:14 · answer #6 · answered by Sassy OLD Broad 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-01-30 07:43:35 · answer #7 · answered by Hagen 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Completely draining all the blood from a body (living one) isn't possible. The blood perfuses throughout all parts. I believe it works kind of like cancer in that there are cells that are not in the blood stream that contain viruses. Therefore even if you could "drain all the blood" there would still be viruses contained in the cells. Also, heating the blood would cause it to coagulate and not be usuable.
2006-07-15 04:45:44 · answer #8 · answered by sandysstyles 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For people on dialysis, the blood is cleansed out side of the body. This only removes toxins because of liver failure. If you were to try and heat the blood to destroy AIDs, you would also cook the blood cells. Because of the mechanics of aids, with the virus fixing itself to T cells, you would have to remove only the T cells and replace them, but there is no way to do that.
Nice thought, though, keep thinking!
2006-07-15 04:44:05 · answer #9 · answered by wildbill05733 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
aids is in the organs and tissue the blood only moves the virus from one organ to the other ..
2006-07-15 04:42:45 · answer #10 · answered by lugwrench3@verizon.net 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋