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Could we treat HIV by infecting people with LUPUS??? |
If any of you have any ideas on this let me know. People who have HIV suffer from a defficiency of antibodies to fight disease, correct? People who suffer from LUPUS suffer from too many antibodies which attack their body, correct? What if somebody contracted LUPUS and HIV? Could they be controlled to cancel each other out?? Any ideas?? Lupus is neither infectious nor contagious - the cause is not known though research has provided evidence implicating heredity, hormones and infections, including viruses. It is thought that the genetic predisposition lies dormant in the body until some trigger from outside the body sets the process in motion. Lupus is an autoimmune disease where the patient's immune system creates antibodies which attack the body instead of protecting it. It manifests in three basic forms, Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE), Discoid Lupus Erythematosus (DLE) and Drug-Induced Lupus Erythematosus (DILE). DLE can sometimes progress into SLE but that is rare (less than 10% of the cases). DILE is almost always reversible within about 6 months after removal of the offending drug. AIDS researchers have primarily concentrated on finding drugs that prevent HIV from replicating (creating more virus) inside the body. These drugs are often referred to as "antivirals". More recently, many researchers have been trying to find ways to help a person's immune system fight the virus on its own. Called "immune-based therapies", some of these treatments are now being studied in large clinical trials. So to sum up, your idea is theoretically correct in that strengthening the immune system can be one way of treatment. However, there is no need to 'create' Lupus in an HIV patient for this purpose. It is better to create an appropriate immune system 'booster' drugs (perhaps similar to those that cause DILE). Nope, I don't think so. That could be a giant disaster. your question shows you have no clear grasp on infectious disease, physiology, or immunology. #1 you can't 'infect' people with lupus, it is an autoimmune disease, not an infectious disease. #2 1 antibody is not equal to another antibody. You literally have hundreds of thousands of different antibodies floating around in you, with specificity to everything from environmental chemicals, to infections you had when you were 4 years old. The antibodies involved in lupus have been synthesized through a system gone awry, and are targeting specific cells in the host's body #3 antibody isn't the problem to HIV. In fact, the way you test someone is detecting HIV antibody in their system. Antibody does not equal cure for disease. If it were that simple, we would have wiped disease out entirely on this planet 50 years ago when the human immunoglobin structure was determined. But I digress. HIV attacks the immune system itself, destroying cytotoxic t-cells (cells responsible for destroying the cells HIV infects). So that doesn't make any sense at all. If it were something so simple, we would have wiped it out long ago, but the very premise is wrong. Edit: in regards to post about the case of aids being cured: I've never heard of that case, and i can only assume a certain level of fact to it since it's second hand. But in a purely theoretical standpoint, through chemotherapy, if you wipe out EVERY white cell in a person's system, you could theoretically get rid of it. However, very few people actually die from HIV itself, they die from the thousands of other things that infect them while HIV destroys the immune system. So take this into consideration, if you further comprimise and eliminate the immune system of someone already immunocomprimised, you almost invariably will kill them. The same could be said that if a gunshot to the head cured HIV. Assume it did for a second. Sure, the cure works, but it also kills the person. And again, this is all purely theoretical. Don't think it is that simple I am afraid. Perhaps they could study the affects of LUPUS to see how the production of antibodies could be controlled, I don't know. Unfortunately I do believe that any cures may be kept secret anyway as a way to keep the worlds population controlled. Paranoid but possible. I'm sure somebody has already looked into it! There is one documented case where AIDS was actually cured. It happened at the University of Texas in Austin. An AIDS patient who also had cancer was being treated. The cancer treatment required taking the blood out of his body, heating it up to a high temperature and then cooling it down and putting it back into his body. After they did this, they checked his blood and the AIDS virus was gone?? I never looked into the case, but I wonder if the fact that he already had cancer had somehow weakened the AIDS virus. Unfortunately, when they tried this on other people with AIDS and cancer it didn't work and they have not been able to get it to work again. YES!!! You are GENIUS!!! That should work perfectly. I am so sure of your ingenious plan, I volunteer to be your Ginnie Pig |
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