WHAT ELSE IS FOUND COMMON AMONGST HIV/AIDS VICTIMS

An extensive research work based on the treatment given to different types (having history of STDs, blood transfusion from a supposed HIV positive patient and drug addicts) of symptomatic HIV/AIDS patients and making some of them (those who continued the treatment as required) free from symptoms as well as virus (HIV antibodies). Besides presence of HIV and low body resistance (immunity), the most important thing found common amongst all the HIV/AIDS victims is the mode of the treatment received by them prior to the development of HIV/AIDS condition. The treatment comprised mainly B-Lactam group of antibiotics and the chief antibiotic is/was Penicillin. Use of corticosteroids at later stage of the disease pathogenesis in combating pyrexia etc. certainly acted fuel to the fire owing to their strong immunosuppressive nature since “acquired immunodeficiency may also be iatrogenic, for example as a result of treatment with corticosteroids or other immunosuppressive drugs”. (Vide Davidson’s Principle and Practice of Medicine, 16th edition).

How Penicillin or other similar antibiotics and corticosteroids are exactly responsible for HIV growth in the body? The answer pertains to further research work in this regard. Until such time, it can only be said (on the basis of treatment given to various HIV/AIDS patients) that entry of the penicillin and other similar drugs must be creating favourable condition in the body that gives rise to HIV and other opportunistic infective organisms particularly virus and bacteria to grow and proliferate.

“Penicillin has a variety of deleterious effects on the immune system. It is known to lower the content of leucocytes, granulocytes and neutrophils in the blood and increase the level of eosinophils, it can impair the blood clotting mechanism, causing hemorrhage; occasionally there is haemolytic anemia. Furthermore, the bone marrow may be depressed or cease to mature during penicillin therapy, indicating a direct impact there. Its most pronounced effect, though, is in the realm of allergy. The whole penicillin group causes a very high incidence of allergic and anaphylactic reactions, various studies indicating an incidence of up to 10%. These allergic reactions range from death to anaphylactic shock (in 1 out of 50,000 persons treated with penicillin) to a series of lesser reactions. Skin rashes of all types, urticaria, contact dermatitis, and exfoliative dermatitis, swelling of the face and other parts of the body, giant hives, asthma, chills and fever, arthritis, and arthralgia, swollen lymph glands, enlarged spleen, abnormalities of the heart rhythm, kidney damage, blood or albumin in urine, and mental changes.

Tetracycline is the backup medicine for Syphilis (STDs) in those who are penicillin allergic. But the members of this family – Doxycycline, Minocycline, Oxytetracycline – have perhaps an even larger array of immune system adverse reactions than penicillin. They impair the development of granulocytes, thrombocytes and lymphocytes and lead to the generation of atypical ones, they suppress the action of phagocytes, cause a plethora of leucocytes, and in general modify the production of blood components. Tetracycline is deposited in the bones and can depress bone maturation in premature infants treated with it.

Like penicillin, it causes a variety of rashes, urticaria, exfoliative dermatitis and other skin reactions, as well as swelling of the arteries, asthma, and anaphylactic shock.

The third medicine used for Syphilis (STDs) is erythromycin. This generally thought to be a mild medicine, with minimum adverse reactions and increasing the number of eosinophils in the blood as well as causing allergic reactions, urticaria, and other skin eruptions, liver dysfunction, and anaphylactic shock.

Thus all three of the major drugs used in treating STDs themselves have immunosuppressive potential.” (AIDS and Syphilis, the hidden link by Harris L. Coulter PhD.)

It would be pertinent to add here that the history of AIDS relates to the discovery of penicillin in 1945. According to PANOS (A London based voluntary and human rights organisation) publication: “The third world epidemic repercussion of the fear of AIDS”: AIDS started sometime inn 50s or 60s (must be due to rampant use of penicillin and other immunosuppressive antibiotics). But the symptoms of second epidemic AIDS or HIV infection became visible in 1980-81. Moreover, it is a known fact that antibiotics primarily help in arresting the growth of infective organisms: the bacteria, spirochetes etc., but secondarily lower body’s resistance (immunity) due to the reasons already noted above. As a result,, the person becomes vulnerable for subsequent infections.

Why researchers working on HIV/AIIDS have failed to achieve even an iota of success in knowing fully the nature of HIV vis-à-vis cure/control of AIDS despite spending millions of dollars, energy, and time? This is because, the investigators have focused their whole attention towards the outcome of some internal body disorder for getting HIV growth only, completely overlooking the basic concept of origin of life and the principle of infection.

William Boyd, M.D., the great pathologist has a mention in his Text book of Pathology: “But we must admit however unwillingly that we seldom or never really know the cause of any thing. Many beautiful ideas has been slain by ugly fact. We merely know a constant association with one thing always following another. We say Tubercle bacillus is the cause of Tuberculosis. That is, merely of saying that T. bacillus is associated with a constant type of lesion; it is no explanation of how the lesions are produced by the bacillus. Nor does it explain why some persons and animals are susceptible to the infection, while other are immune……….”

In context to HIV/AIDS, it can be said that prior to the development of virus, first of all body’s immunity is weakened by immunosuppressive treatment being indiscriminately prescribed nowadays for STDs as well as non-STDs in the modern system of medicine. This is followed by HIV growth along with the side/ill-effects of the said(Stage of initial HIV infection).

In order to overcome these ill-effects, the patient receives almost similar treatment from the concerned or different physician leading to further weakening of body immunity. Consequently, there is development of fever, night sweet, loss of body weight, oral thrush and enlargement of lymph glands. The antibodies titre against HIV may be found raised by ELISA test or any other method at this stage. The patient is suspected/declared as HIV/AIDS victim (Stage of persistent generalised lymphadenopathy i.e. P.G.L.).

The ignorant (also the unfortunate) victim may still be tempted to continue the (same) treatment, may be from government/private hospital where he/she is found as HIV positive on the basis ELISA; the most commonly conducted test in India. Western blot, the confirmatory test may or may not be found positive at this stage. It adds marked fatigue, protracted diarrhoea and enlargement of spleen to already existing symptoms. (Stage of AIDS-related complex i.e. A.R.C.)

Although, it is being advertised time and again by the authorities at the helm of affairs-that there is no treatment for AIDS. It being the human nature and nobody wants to die without taking treatment, the victim or his attendants consult the ‘bigwigs’ who too prescribe the same drug treatment but with different brands or at the most would like to prefer Zidovudine (A.Z.T.) course, but would never like to advise the victim to discontinue the said (harmful) treatment and opt for any other alternative system of medicine. Meanwhile, there occurs marked collapse of immune system and invasion of life-threatening infection; Pneumonia and Tuberculosis the main. Western blot test is commonly found positive at this stage. (Stage of full blown AIDS).

If HIV is able to cross blood brain barrier, there might appear symptoms of AIDS Dementia due to restriction certain brain cells compromising; confusion, memory loss, behavioural/personality change, incontinence of urine/stool before the victim dies, sometime within one year getting initial infection (Stage of AIDS Dementia).

It is therefore, HIV/AIDS patients must not be treated even for acute exacerbation with those medicines which were/are responsible for creating immunodeficiency in the body. “My sincere advice to those convalescents/HIV/AIDS patients who may have/may become asymptomatic as well as virus free (HIV antibodies) through Homoeopathy/any other alternative system of medicine, not to resort to such mode of treatment for any sort of ailment/disease in future, which was responsible for making condition favourable for the growth and proliferation of HIV in the body. In other words, not to take the immunosuppressive drug’s treatment at any cost, otherwise fatal outcome is bound to occur as is presently going on.”

It is important to mention here that the negative opinion (antagonistic approach) spreads more readily like wild fire than the truth (protagonistic approach). Similar thing happened in cause of HIV/AIDS theory. The proposition of HIV/AIDS put forth by Robert Gallo of USA and Montagnier of France, has reached every nook and corner of the world but the truth spoken by Peter Duesberg, Professor of Virology Department, University of California, Berkely and Roberto A. Giraldo, Clinical Immunology, Department of Microbiology, University Hospital New York City, USA, could not reach up to the researchers vis-à-vis propagators of HIV/AIDS and authorities concerned.

Another vital aspect of HIV/AIDS is the method of screening. Whether or not a person has been infected with HIV is verified first on the basis of serological tests, the common ELISA test conducted in almost all Govt’s. sero-surveillance centers as well as private labs in India. ELISA is also found positive in many other diseases/disorders viz Hepatitis B, Tuberculosis, Malaria, Herpes, STDs, Typhoid, Jaundice, and malnutrition. Unless the patient gives the history of STDs and the treatment with immunosuppressive medicine, and a positive ELISA is further confirmed by Western blot test, it (positive ELISA) does not always point to HIV infection. Even if the person concerned has HIV infection, the Western blot test does not sow positivity in the beginning of HIV infection. Further Western blot test may or may not show positivity in the stage of AIDS related complex i.e. ARC and stage of full blown AIDS owing to the following reason.

The most interesting feature of these tests is: both are indirect tests, since these only point to the rise of antibodies titre against HIV in the blood, not the actual presence of HIV. Further, none is absolutely free from error, for example, Western blot, the confirmatory test for HIV has the reliability of 94 to 96% i.e. 4 to 6% error. Aren’t these figures sufficient enough for the false seropositivity or negativity at many times?

Dr. P.S. Rawat
B.Sc., B.H.M.S.
Place: Chandigarh M.D.(Homoeo)Scholar
Date: March 7, 2010 Cum Clinical Researcher

Formerly:- Professor & Principal-cum-officer incharge Research,
H.M.C & Hospital Chandigarh and
S.A.S Nagar (Mohali) Punjab. M.D (Homoeo)

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