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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / AIDS / February 2005Alcohol produces false positive results
If you drink alcohol, watch out! You could be "labeled!" PATIENTS with HIV infection and a history of alcohol or drug abuse are more likely to confuse their HIV sero-status than HIV-positive patients with no alcohol history, the national coordinator for Counselling and Testing (VCT), Dr. Zainab Akol has said. Akol said taking alcohol with other drugs that have depressant effects like heroin, methadone affected the laboratory tests leading to five possible results of an HIV test. >If you drink alcohol, watch out! You could be "labeled!" > >PATIENTS with HIV infection and a history of alcohol or drug abuse are >more likely to confuse their HIV sero-status than HIV-positive patients >with no alcohol history, The only way a patient with HIV infection can confuse their sero-status is by being falsely negative.  SignatureDavid Canzi If you drink alcohol, watch out! You could be "labeled!" PATIENTS with HIV infection and a history of alcohol or drug abuse are more likely to confuse their HIV sero-status than HIV-positive patients with no alcohol history, the national coordinator for Counselling and Testing (VCT), Dr. Zainab Akol has said. Akol said taking alcohol with other drugs that have depressant effects like heroin, methadone affected the laboratory tests leading to five possible results of an HIV test We can believe DMCanzi, 'AIDS' fanatic or Dr. Zainab Akol. I think I go with the good doc. >If you drink alcohol, watch out! You could be "labeled!" > >PATIENTS with HIV infection and a history of alcohol or drug abuse are >more likely to confuse their HIV sero-status If a patient with HIV tests positive, his/her sero-status is not confused. In order to be confused the test result would have to be a false negative, not a false positive. >We can believe DMCanzi, 'AIDS' fanatic or Dr. Zainab Akol. I think I go >with the good doc. The quote of Dr. Akol above doesn't say what you're trying to make it say. Why won't *you* believe Dr. Akol? SignatureDavid Canzi |
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