Treatment for HIV or AIDS
AIDS, as you all might know, is a disease that has always frightened the people with its deadly claws that cling onto the body of humans to attack the CD4 immune cells. Not many people might know the technical side of the disease since it isn’t an area that is constantly under discussion. Medicine is not of great interest for many people as well, but the people who get infected by the disease will surely check through the various possibilities to recover from it. The dear and near ones of the patients are also equally into the fight against the virus.
Treatment methods are constantly being searched by such people so that a healthier life is lead with the virus eating up the immune cells. As these cells within a human body are being attacked, the people being affected will start having recurrent fever, chronic fatigue, night sweats, bumps and rashes on the skin, chronic swollen lymph glands, sores and spots on tongue and genitals, and dark splotches inside eyelids, mouth, and nose. There are a few treatment methods that can help the patients get better with time; a complete recovery for AIDS is not possible. Let us have a look at the various treatment options for HIV.
Treatment Options
Every infected person should make sure to get treatment as soon as they are diagnosed with the virus. No matter how loaded the virus is in a person’s body, treatment is essential to control the malicious spread. Antiretroviral therapy is the main treatment for HIV, and it is a combination of daily medications that curb the reproduction of the virus. The CD4 cells are protected this way, keeping the immune system strong to combat the disease.
This therapy will help in keeping HIV from building up to AIDS. Transmission risks are also reduced by taking the therapy. Once you are an HIV patient, you will need to keep taking the sessions of antiretroviral therapy to stop the growth of the virus. If the treatment turns out to be effective, the virus will remain undetectable in tests. But if the person stops taking therapy, the virus that still exists in the body will begin to multiply and attack the CD4 cells.
Medications
The immune system is helped by various medications to fight the incoming and existing virus in the body. Developing complications can be brought down to risk-free limits by taking the antiretroviral therapy medications which include six classes such as protease inhibitors, fusion inhibitors, non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors, nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors, integrase strand transfer inhibitors, and entry inhibitors (CCR5 antagonists). The regimen that is best to start with is of three HIV medications from two drug classes. Other medications are combined with the antiretroviral regimens to allow a person with HIV to take only one or two pills daily. Personal circumstances and overall health of a person have to be considered before deciding on a particular regimen. Therefore, when consulting a healthcare provider, all these have to mentioned in order to fix a certain regimen for your disease.