I am very curious ....If someone has a auto-immune disease would it delay in hiv being detected for a hiv test

Answer 1

Hello,

Okay I'll List some auto-immune diseases first~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Autoimmune diseases: These diseases listed are what is accepted as Auto-immune diseases.

Diseases with a complete or partial autoimmune etiology:

Crohn's disease is a form of inflammatory bowel disease characterized by chronic inflammation of the intestinal tract. Major symptoms include abdominal pain and diarrhea.

Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS), is an acquired immune-mediated inflammatory disorder of the peripheral nervous system (e.g. not the brain and spinal column). It is also called acute inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy, acute idiopathic polyradiculoneuritis, acute idiopathic polyneuritis and Landry's ascending paralysis.

Lupus erythematosus is a chronic (long-lasting) autoimmune disease where the immune system, for unknown reasons, becomes hyperactive and attacks normal tissue. This attack results in inflammation and brings about symptoms. This is a "Non-organ specific" type autoimmune disease.
Multiple sclerosis is a disorder of the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord), which is characterised by decreased nerve function due to myelin loss and secondary axonal damage.

Myasthenia gravis is a disorder of neuromuscular transmission leading to fluctuating weakness and fatigue. Weakness is caused by circulating antibodies that block acetylcholine receptors at the neuromuscular junction.
Optic neuritis is an inflammation of the optic nerve that may cause a complete or partial loss of vision.

Psoriasis is a skin disorder in which rapidly multiplying skin cells produce itchy, scaly inflamed patches on the skin.

Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disorder that causes the body's immune system to attack the bone joints.

Graves' disease is the commonest form of hyperthyroidism, and is caused by anti-thyroid antibodies that have the effect of stimulating the thyroid into overproduction of thyroid hormone.

Hashimoto's disease is a common form of hypothyroidism, characterised by initial inflammation of the thyroid and later dysfunction and goiter. There are several characteristic antibodies (e.g. anti-thyroglobulin).

Ord's thyroiditis is a thyroiditis similar to Hashimoto's disease, except the fact that the thyroid is reduced in size. In Europe, this form of thyroid inflammation is more common than Hashimoto's disease.

Diabetes mellitus (type 1) is the result of an autoimmune attack on the islet cells of the pancreas.

Aplastic anemia is often caused by an autoimmune attack on the bone marrow.

Reiter's syndrome seems to be an autoimmune attack on various body systems in response to a bacterial infection and the body's confusion over the HLA-B27 marker

Autoimmune hepatitis

Primary biliary cirrhosis appears to be an autoimmune disease that affects the biliary epithelial cells (BECs) of the small bile duct in the liver. The cause is yet to be determined but most of the patients (<90%) seem to have auto-mitochondrial antibodies (AMAs) against pyruvate dehydrogenase complex (PDC), an enzyme that is found in the mitochondria.
Antiphospholipid antibody syndrome (APS) affects the blood clotting process. It causes blood clots to form in veins and/or arteries.

Opsoclonus myoclonus syndrome (OMS) is a neurological disorder which appears to the result of an autoimmune attack on the nervous system. Symptoms include opsoclonus, myoclonus, ataxia, intention tremor, dysphasia, dysarthria, mutism, hypotonia, lethargy, irritability or malaise. About half of all OMS cases occur in ***

Autoimmune diseases: Suspected but not yet 100%

Diseases suspected to be linked to autoimmunity are:

Interstitial cystitis is a urinary bladder disease characterised by pelvic pain, urinary frequency (as often as every 30 minutes), pain with sexual intercourse, but no pain with urination.

Neuromyotonia is spontaneous muscular activity resulting from repetitive motor unit action potentials of peripheral origin. It develops as a result of both acquired or hereditary diseases. The acquired form is more frequent and is usually caused by antibodies against neuromuscular junction.

Scleroderma is a chronic disease characterized by excessive deposits of collagen. Progressive systemic scleroderma, the serious type of the disease, can be fatal. The local type of the disease is not serious.

Vitiligo is the spontaneous loss of pigment from areas of skin. The pigment-free areas have few or no melanocytes. Researchers have detected anti-melanocyte antibodies in some cases of vitiligo, so it seems likely that at least some instances of this condition are the result of autoimmune problems.

Vulvodynia is used to describe pain in the vulva, often severe, of unknown cause. "Vulvar vestibulitis" is a related term.

Chagas' disease in the chronic phase is beleaved to result from a T. cruzi antigen homologie to body tissue resulting in a delayed autoimmune reaction leading to Chagasic cardiopathy (cardiomegaly), volvulus or constipation and ultimately d
eath.

Sarcoidosis is a disease where granulomas can form anywhere in the body but particularly in the lungs.

As fas as i am aware of the three things which would delay late seroconversion on a Hiv test are as follows,

1) Undergoing chemotherapy,
2) Organ transplantation,
and
3) Chronic IV drug use.

Psysosomatic is also a very known factor which can indiciate symptoms for a disease that you or your firned dosen't have. The mind is very powerful in comparison to the body.

6 weeks hiv test is very reliable, because people would have already seroconvert already and a mojority of people would show right results after 6 weeks and some doctors say wait 45 days after exposure to test.

There are various test which can be conducted to use in order to find out if an individual is infected with hiv or not.

P24 antigen , which detects for the protein of hiv, this is present before the antibody

PCR, detects the actuall hiv in the blood, the disadvantage of this is that it gives more false positives as far as i know. Pcr shouldn't be used on it's own it should be used with a p24 test a few weeks after exposure.

This website should be useful to assit you and your friend out.

http://labtestsonline.org/understanding/analytes/hiv_antibody/sample.html

~~~~~~~~~~~~Take care~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~#

Answer 2

The HIV rate in the heterosexual community is rising from several different sources. One source is sexual promiscuity, whether you are male or female and you have sex with many partners you run the risk of becoming infected. One of your contacts may have had an encounter with someone that was infected and passed it along. It is not a matter of who you have sex with it is a combination of all the people that person had contact with and all the people they had contact with and so on. Then there is the blood supply for years it was not tested for the HIV virus, we did not have the knowledge about the disease that we do now. We now know that the virus can remain dormant for years before it becomes active. There is no magic bullet anyone could be infected with the disease if they were exposed to it.

Answer 3

I would not think so but you should probably be asking a doctor this question. I have lost a brother to HIV/AIDS and it is important to me to tell others they need to be well informed and safe. Very important to get medical care early and be tested if you suspect you might have come in contact with it. Better to be tested and find out early so treatment can begin than to wait.

Answer 4

The HIV is in ALL BODY fluids and this can and will be in the ones with in ones mouth. You cant rely on knowing or not knowing if you have a small opening within your mouth to allow it to infect you. its best to seek out help from you own doctor or go to ask a nurse web site. Just do the right thing, and if you cant do the safe thing, What you do today you may have to pay for it FOREVER.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

There is no theoretical reason why an autoimmune disease should interfere with the HIV test.

Answer 7

no, it shouldn't matter at all

but HIV is kind of random as to when it shows up in the first place

you can get reliable positive results as soon as 10 days after infection, but you can get false negative results up to 6 months after infection

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Answer 10

wow--helluva good question. You should probably contact an AIDS clinic and ask.

whoever has the question should take precautions until you find out for sure.