 |
 | Home | Contact Us | FAQ | Search & Site Map | Link to Us |
 | Sign In | Join | Other 45 Sites in Network |
Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Herpes / May 2007Herpes Immunity?
Hi, I recently went in for a check up and my dr said I was immune to herpes, is this true? I've searched the internet and have found nothing about people being immune to herpes. Every test came back clean and I've never noticed anything strange on my body. Should I believe my dr?? Can I have some of your blood please ? > Hi, > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > clean and I've never noticed anything strange on my body. Should I > believe my dr?? To be serious, I don't know of this, I'm sure it could be true though, some people are immune to HIV. I guess you can find immunity to many if not all conditions amongst certain people. Pity they can't take something from them. Apparently it's not done because of other possible transference and the possibility of causing more problems. I saw them transfer blood in Africa once though against Western doctors protests from an Ebola immune person to a sufferer and it worked. > Hi, > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > clean and I've never noticed anything strange on my body. Should I > believe my dr?? > To be serious, I don't know of this, I'm sure it could be true though, some > people are immune to HIV. I guess you can find immunity to many if not all [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > > - Show quoted text - Are some ppl really immune to aids?? or do you mean that they can still get infected but just never get any symptons but still be carriers. My dr said I'm also not a carrier she plain out said SEVERAL times that I just can't get it or give it. > Are some ppl really immune to aids?? Yes, apparently. There have been a few rare cases who despite exposure seem not to have picked up HIV. There exists in virology the theoretical construct of someone whose body just happens to mount the right response at the right time to beat off a given virus. These people exist as case reports asking whether they might be naturally immune - and no-one really has a clue how to identify them or why they might be immune. The general view its that its something in the innate immune system or weird stuff happening at the mucosal surfaces. The big one of these was a certain weird situation in the prostitutes in Nairobi I think it was (yup, found the initial paper). Fowke KR, Nagelkerke NJ, Kimani J, Simonsen JN, Anzala AO, Bwayo JJ, MacDonald KS, Ngugi EN, Plummer FA. Resistance to HIV-1 infection among persistently seronegative prostitutes in Nairobi, Kenya. Lancet. 1996 Nov 16;348(9038):1347-51. Now they still havent worked out why this happened - some papes indicated some immune repsonses, others found IgA responses (which no blood test would pick up) and used that to explain it....but in all they had no idea. Also a number of these people who seemed resistant would go home, still remain contactable by the study people whehn they returned and lose that immunity when they came back to the city - suggesting a persistent exposure might be necessary to produce and maintain the immunity...ie it was situational. They still havent worked out how that works, nor been able to convert it to a protective method yet (to my knowledge which is a moderately rusty with HIV). Tim  SignatureWhen playing rugby, its not the winning that counts, but the taking apart ICQ: 5178568 Yeah, I want to hear from your doctor how she can conclude this. To be honest, I think she doesn't know what she's talking about. ar >> To be serious, I don't know of this, I'm sure it could be true though, >> some [quoted text clipped - 26 lines] > carriers. My dr said I'm also not a carrier she plain out said SEVERAL > times that I just can't get it or give it. I think we might be hearing things out of context. Why would your doctor say that? Are you with a herpes infected person and you don't have it? Did your doctor say it jokingly? We need more info. I doubt you can create an immunity to herpes. You either have it or you don't. Some people have it but never have outbreaks. That might be considered an "immunity." But they can still pass it on. ar > Hi, > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > clean and I've never noticed anything strange on my body. Should I > believe my dr?? > I think we might be hearing things out of context. Why would your doctor > say that? Are you with a herpes infected person and you don't have it? Did [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > > - Show quoted text - No my partner does not have herpes but my doctor said I could swim in herpes if I wanted and I would never ever get it. She didnt say this jokingly and she was very serious about it. I asked her "So I can never get infected with herpes?" and she said "No, you can't and you can't pass it because you can't get infected" > No my partner does not have herpes but my doctor said I could swim in > herpes if I wanted and I would never ever get it. She didnt say this > jokingly and she was very serious about it. I asked her "So I can > never get infected with herpes?" and she said "No, you can't and you > can't pass it because you can't get infected" Then, you have to go ask why the Dr said this, what immune factor, what test, what genetic component or whatever is the basis of this decision. Tim SignatureWhen playing rugby, its not the winning that counts, but the taking apart ICQ: 5178568 > > No my partner does not have herpes but my doctor said I could swim in > > herpes if I wanted and I would never ever get it. She didnt say this [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > When playing rugby, its not the winning that counts, but the taking apart > ICQ: 5178568 I just called and looks like she is out on vacation til next week. You guys stay posted on this. If anyone has any information on this, please let me know, I greatly appreciate it. Thanks Why don't you call your doctor up on the telephone and ask him why he thinks that you are immune to HSV. Just because your tests came back negative doesn't mean that you can not ever contract herpes. Angela Signaturehttp://yoshi2me.com http://herpes-help.blogspot.com http://yoshi2me.com/phpbb/index.php http://checkuptoday.com > Hi, > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > clean and I've never noticed anything strange on my body. Should I > believe my dr?? > Why don't you call your doctor up on the telephone and ask him why he thinks > that you are immune to HSV. Just because your tests came back negative [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > > - Show quoted text - Well she said that I can't get type 1 or 2 and that I have an immunity to both of them. She even said that her husband is immune to it. She said it's rare but possible. Is she crazy?? This is weird... and I can't find anything on the internet that backs up what she is saying. > Well she said that I can't get type 1 or 2 and that I have an immunity > to both of them. She even said that her husband is immune to it. She > said it's rare but possible. Is she crazy?? > > This is weird... and I can't find anything on the internet that backs > up what she is saying. That's very interesting. I think that if it were possible to use this as a way of developing a vaccine it would probably have been done. Maybe someone is working on it now ? It seems such a shame that whatever these people have can't be utilised in some way. I personally would be prepared to take a transfusion from an immune person if it were possible to eliminate or weaken the infection even if it were against common medical practice. I think many other people would too. > That's very interesting. I think that if it were possible to use this as a > way of developing a vaccine it would probably have been done. Maybe someone > is working on it now ? Unlikely - this sort of passive vaccination is one of the first things you try with a vaccine. I know its been tried with a number of herpesviruses (though Im more familiar with the use of it in veterinary herpesviruses). It has been successfully used for a number of infections starting with an experimental transfer of hyperimmune serum (the old Hepatitis vaccine was based on a gamma globulin passive immunisation). The problem with circulating blood hyperimmune sera is that a) anything active circulating runs the risk of being transferred if you go direct from blood products and b) you essentially end up transferring antibody only and passive immunity of this type is fairly short lived, and reliant on antibody being neutralising for the infection in question. > It seems such a shame that whatever these people have > can't be utilised in some way. It is/was in Ebola after a needlestick injury made someone seroconvert IIRC, generally then you move on rapidly to producing antibody in a safer background. Tim SignatureWhen playing rugby, its not the winning that counts, but the taking apart ICQ: 5178568 > Well she said that I can't get type 1 or 2 and that I have an immunity > to both of them. She even said that her husband is immune to it. She > said it's rare but possible. Is she crazy?? Yes but just because it's rare but possible doesn't mean that she knows for sure that your body is immune to HSV. Ask her why she thinks your body is immune to contracting HSV. Angela Signaturehttp://yoshi2me.com http://herpes-help.blogspot.com http://yoshi2me.com/phpbb/index.php http://checkuptoday.com |
Reply to this Message |
 Sign In
 Join
 My Latest Posts My Monitored Threads My Blog My Photo Gallery My Profile My Homepage Start New Thread Enable EMail Alerts Rate this Thread
|
©2008 Advenet LLC Privacy Policy - Terms of Use
This website includes both content owned or controlled by Advenet as well as content owned or controlled by third parties.