how do patients in pregnacy present with HIV?
HIV is the causative agent of AIDS. Women infected with HIV may first show symptoms at the time of pregnancy or possibly develop life-threatening infections because normal pregnancy involves some suppression of the maternal immune system. Zidovudine is recommended for the prevention of maternal-to-fetal HIV transmission and is administered orally beginning after 14weeks gestation, intravenously during labour, and in the form of syrup to the newborn for 6weeks after birth. Sexual exposure to genital secretions of an infected person, parenteral exposure to infected blood and tissue and perinatal exposure of an infant to infected maternal secretions through birth or breastfeeding. The stages of AIDS in pregnancy are
Stage 1-Fever, headache, lymphadenopathy, myalgia.
Stage 2-Infection is active but asymptomatic and msy remain so for years. Client may experience outbreak of herpes zoster. Client nay experience transient thrombocytopenia.
Stage 3-Client is symptomatic, immune dysfunction is evident, All body systems can show signs of immune dysfunction. Integumentary and gynaecological problems are common.
Stage 4-Advanced infection, client vulnerable young common bacterial infections, development of opportunistic infections and serious immune compromise.
How do you think the general public should change the way they treat HIV/AIDS patients, cancer patients, alcoholics, and those with mental illness? Have you seen examples of how these patients are treated?
Consider a group of 10,000 50 year-old patients with HIV. HIV can lead to AIDS and death. Each year, patients with HIV have a 90% chance of staying in that state, a 7% chance of contracting AIDS, and a 3% chance of dying. Furthermore, patients diagnosed with AIDS have a 60% chance of staying in the AIDS state and a 40% chance of dying each year. Death is thus an "absorbing state", which once entered, cannot be left. The expected...
Why do you think patients with HIV are more prone to certain types of cancer?
Drug Treatments for HIV/AIDS While HIV/AIDS is still currently incurable, the prognosis for patients with this infectious disease has improved due to advancements in drug treatments. Consider the case of Kristy Aney. Kristy was diagnosed with HIV in 1992 and was told she would survive, at most, 10 more years. Despite unfavorable odds, Kristy is still alive 20 years later. Since her diagnosis, she has witnessed tremendous improvements in HIV/AIDS treatments which have helped patients live longer with fewer side...
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Explain options to improve oral intake for cancer and HIV/AIDS patients.
1.) In this current day and age that we live in, do you believe that HIV infection is a universally fatal diagnosis? 2.) As a community health nurse what are some of the most important things you would want to teach a vulnerable population infected with HIV/AIDS ?. What about your patients who are sexually active but are not infected with the disease? How would you get these teaching points across to them? please elaborate on each question
Patients with Hepatitis B, C or HIV have to be placed on contact precautions in a hospital? True False
HIV/AIDS patients are regularly monitored for their CD4 counts in order to make sure the antiretroviral therapies are effective. Suppose the distribution of CD4 counts in a population is approximately normal with mean = 237 and standard deviation = 43. If HIV patients are defined as progressing to AIDS after their CD4 counts are less than 200, what proportion of this population is considered to be suffering from AIDS?
2. Explain options to improve oral intake for cancer and HIV/AIDS patients.