What is true statement about hpv??

Question

You can get rid of the virus so the virus not in your body anymore and you are considered cure from the disease and will not pass it to your couple (offcourse if you dont have any new infection) or if you got the virus so the virus will remain in your body for the rest of your life even there isn't any recurrence of the wart anymore?? i have checked many site about hpv and get mixed result about hpv, i just confused where is the true statement

Answer 1

I understand your confusion because I read the same things. HPV doesn't have a cure (a pill, needle, cream, et cetera), but your immune system, given that you are healthy and have a normal immune system, can fight the virus and get rid of it. Once your immune system gets rid of the virus, you can not contract the type of HPV you had. For example, if you have HPV type 6 which causes genital warts, your immune system will fight the virus and you can not get type 6 ever again. It usually takes 8 months but no longer than 2 years for your immune system to get rid of the disease. I hope that I have helped.

Answer 2

HPV is a virus, any virus will be in your system of life. What ends up happening is your body gets great at monitoring and fighting off the ones its already built a defense against. HPV is a sneaky virus though, as it often times doesn't show any symptoms and easily gets passed on from person to person during sexual contact. Because of this, very little is known about tranmission rates - (such as if it is easily transmitted orally, etc). The best way the medical profession has found to deal with virii are vaccines (like the HPV vaccine). I would take comfort in the fact that valtrex has been found to significantly lower transmission rates of people with herpes passing it on to their uninfected parters... only because it might help research find a similar drug to help HPV soon. You can also see what strain you have, and in the future make sure your partner gets vaccinated first if you have one of the strains that is included in the vaccine, before engaging in unprotected sex, if that is the plan. You should always practice safe sex, especially with a known infection, and you should be fine preventing its transmission.

Answer 3

For some women HPV can go away on it's own. It's not considered a "cure" because it doesn't involve treatment or drugs like most "cures" do. And, just because a person has got rid of the virus doesn't mean that they'll never get it again. A woman can always contract the virus again if she has sex or sexual contact with someone who has HPV.

Some women are never able to get rid of the virus and they'll have it their entire life. It basically just becomes dormant and doesn't cause problems like warts. It CAN still be spread to another person though if they have sex or have sexual contact with someone.

Men can also get rid of HPV on their own, but, since there is no test for men to detect HPV it's basically impossible for them to know if they have it still or have gotten rid of it.

Answer 4

Your immune system can fight off the virus naturally and you won't show any symptoms, but you will always have the virus. No drugs, treatments, etc. can get rid of viruses. You can pass it on even when you don't have any symptoms, but the cervical tissue will have dysplasia (AKA the cells are abnormal but not cancerous) forever. This may eventually develop into cancer or it may not.

You can pass it on to partners, but usually males show no symptoms of the HPV type that is correlated with cancer. They can get the HPV associated with wart formation, though.

Answer 5

A, most sexually active people don't get HPV and HPV does have symptoms so it has to be A

Answer 6

You cannot get rid of the HPV virus and have it for the rest of your life. Some strains of it can cause cervical cancer so you need to see your doc as often as he recommends for pap and pelvic exams. If you have it you most likely got it from your partner. Men don't always show symptoms. Once you have it you must inform all old sexual partners and any new sexual partners that you have it.

Answer 7

There is no cure for HPV.

In most cases the body’s immune system suppresses the virus to a stage where it does not produce signs such as warts or cervical dyaplasia.

We can acquire new HPV type with a new sex partners but an old HPV infection may raise it head when the body is under stress of an illness.

You may have visited all these sites but maybe some of this information may help you understand HPV a bit more.

My personal favorite.

reports that a viral replication protein known as E2 binds the circular viral DNA to cell structures called spindle fibers that are present in a cell when it divides, a process known as mitosis. In mitosis, a single cell divides in two, creating two genetically identical daughter cells. By latching onto the spindle fibers of the cell as it divides, HPV DNA also divides and replicates itself in each of the new daughter cells where it can continue to replicate and persist indefinitely.
“In effect, HPV is able to mimic our own chromosomes, behaving as a sort of ‘mini-chromosome’, independently replicating and keeping pace as the cellular chromosomes replicate and the cell divides,” says Tom Broker, Ph.D., professor of biochemistry and molecular genetics and co-author of the paper. “This allows the virus to remain in our bodies indefinitely, with the potential of causing serious disease years, even decades, after first exposure.”
http://main.uab.edu/show.asp?durki=65962

HPV can be contracted from one partner, remain dormant, and then later be unknowingly transmitted to another sexual partner, including a spouse.

It's true that most often genital HPV produces no symptoms or illness, and so a person who has been infected may never know about it. Experts estimate that at any given time, only about 1% of all sexually active Americans have visible genital warts. Far more women have abnormal Pap smears related to HPV infection, but in many cases health care providers do not explain the link between HPV and cervical infection, perpetuating the misunderstanding.

The virus can remain in the body for weeks, years, or even a lifetime, giving no sign of its presence. Or a genital HPV infection may produce warts, lesions, or cervical abnormalities after a latent period of months or even years.

The concern about life-long recurrences may be based on a misconception rather than a myth. It's true that at present there is no known cure for genital human papillomavirus. As a virus, it will remain in the infected person's cells for an indefinite time--most often in a latent state but occasionally producing symptoms or disease, as we have discussed elsewhere.


http://www.ashastd.org/learn/learn_hpv_facts.cfm

. Most HPV infections have no signs or symptoms; therefore, most infected persons are unaware they are infected, yet they can transmit the virus to a sex partner. Rarely, a pregnant woman can pass HPV to her baby during vaginal delivery. A baby that is exposed to HPV very rarely develops warts in the throat or voice box.

www.CDC.gov

Anyone who has ever had genital contact with another person may have HPV. Both men and women may get it -- and pass it on-- without knowing it. Since there might not be any signs, a person may have HPV even if years have passed since he or she had sex.

Is there a cure for HPV?
There is no cure for the virus (HPV) itself. There are treatments for the health problems that HPV can cause, such as genital warts, cervical changes, and cervical cancer.
http://www.fda.gov/womens/getthefacts/hpv.html

Warts can form weeks, months, or years after sexual contact with a person who has genital HPV

Is it still possible to have HPV even if my Pap test was normal?
Yes. You can have HPV but still have a normal Pap test. Changes on your cervix may not appear right away or they may never appear. For women over the age of 30 that get an HPV test and a Pap test, a negative result on both the Pap and HPV tests means that no cervical changes or HPV was found on the cervix. This is great news, because it means there is an extremely low chance of developing cervical cancer in the next few years

No. There is no treatment or cure for HPV. However, there is treatment for the changes that HPV can cause on the cervix, as well as treatment for genital warts.

http://www.womenshealth.gov/faq/stdhpv.htm

Warts may appear within several weeks after sexual contact with a person who is infected with HPV, or they may take months or years to appear, or they may never appear. HPVs may also cause flat, abnormal growths in the genital area and on the cervix (the lower part of the uterus that extends into the vagina). However, HPV infections usually do not cause any symptoms.
Although there is no cure for HPV infection, the warts and lesions these viruses cause can be treated (see Question 10).

http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Risk/HPV