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Chemotherapy May be Used Against HIV
A work prepared by Canadian scientists in collaboration with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) from USA, could be a new combined strategy to eliminate HIV in the body, using the Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART) with molecules directed against cell proliferation, such as those used to kill certain types of cancer.
Could the antitumor drugs improve the response of HIV patients on antiviral treatment? The answer, according to a study published by the journal Nature Medicine, seems to be yes. These treatments may eliminate the “trick” used by the AIDS virus to remain “hidden” in some of the body’s immune cells.
Until now, explains Dr. Jean-Pierre Routy, McGill Institute of Montreal (Canada), antiretroviral therapy has met with an insurmountable obstacle to overcome any remaining body of HIV: the AIDS virus is able to “sneak , forming reservoirs in T cells belonging to the body’s defense system, which appears to be immune to treatment. Chemotherapy may be used against HIV.
Allergies in Children
Before age five, children come to have atopic dermatitis, which is a sign that the child may develop in the future allergic complications such as asthma.
An allergy is manifested as body’s normal response to a foreign agent, which the body as dangerous, this predisposition of the body to manifest these overreactions are inherited by almost 80%.
Product of the change in eating habits and lifestyles, children are exposed early to unnatural substances and all these additives have an effect on the immune system. Allergic diseases have increased in recent years and continue to evolve.
It is usually associated with agents that allergies come from the environment, but the genetic component of these diseases is strong. When visiting the doctor is small, it is important for parents to inform doctors that they also suffered, even when children do not appear.
From an allergic reaction to food can trigger an allergic rhinitis in adolescence becomes a asthma.
It is important to be aware of the symptoms that are experienced as rhinitis (allergy manifested by sneezing and runny nose) may be confused with a cold, and could even be a history of asthma, say experts. In the same position atopic dermatitis is one of the most common allergies in children, after food and is characterized by the appearance of hives.
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