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Is HPV curable?
There is no known cure for HPV. However, eventually the immune system does repress it by reducing it to a low level. At the point of natural suppression, it would be unlikely for a person to transmit the virus. Researchers don't know whether it is actually ever fully eliminated from the body, but at any rate it quits being contagious after a while. The time it takes to get to this point varies from person to person, according to their immune system. The longer you have gone without having symptoms, the more likely it is that your body is reducing the viral levels. HPV does not tend to be persistent in most cases, and most people who have contracted it are not thought to be permanently contagious.
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Rebekah
Date Answered:
2/22/2002
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There is no cure for HPV. HPV is very treatable, though no one treatment is right or the same for everyone. HPV does regress or go into a low term remission. At this time no one know what the virus does. At this time HPV is not found in any test. HPV is many times controlled by the bodies own immunity. HPV can reactivate and many times does after years of sleep. HPV many times reactivates when your immunity is impaired such as with age, sickness, depression and pregancy. When the virus is in low-term remission it is not as contagious, but the virus can be transmissed at this time through the bodies natural shedding process. No one know when this happens. In a committed long term relationship HPV should present no problem each person share the others virus. Each partner understanding the risks and having encourgaing regular check ups for both parties. Until we are sure that HPV is 100% elimated from the body we must assume we can be contagious informing all sex partners of the virus and allowing that person to choose. Thousands and thousands of people have a virus reactivate after many years in a dormant stage. Until testing is approved and we know 100% we are not contagious we must assume we can transmit the viurs. The virus enters the body through a cut, scratch or micro-brasion during sex. Lubrications do help in preventing these microbrasions. TSH
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4/16/2002
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Good diet, lots of excercise in most cases reduces symtpoms/occurence! There are a few drug companies researching various vaccines and treatments - don't know when more information will be available on this. Give it a few years we'll have cures for a bunch more of these annoyances!
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whosme
Date Answered:
4/10/2002
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I started using traditional chinese medicine.
I just started using it a few days ago and all ready noticed some positive results. I went to a traditional practitioner. He checked my pulse in both arms ,looked at my tongue and briefly examined my privates. He then started pulling
out what looked like stuff you would find on a forest floor out of these draws. he made 7 equal piles of these twigs and seeds and bark and baged them. It cost 50 bucks for 7 days but I believe it may be worth it. When you think about the fact
that chinese medicine has been around for thousands of years and actually works to boost your immune system, where as our modern medicine has been around maybe 200 years and is
geared mostly towards treating symptoms.
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Anonymous
Date Answered:
1/21/2003
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No there are many ways genital warts (HPV) can be treated. One wayis putting chemicals such as Podophyllin, Condylox, or trichloroacetic acid on the wart to kill and dissolve it. Another is to freeze them off. The warts can also be cut off useing electric loops, lasers, or surgery. The medicine Aldara can activate your immune system to kill the wart cells. You should never use over the counter cures for warts near sex organs because they cancause severe irritation. These treatments will get rid of the warts but you may not ever get rid of HPV itself. The virus may still be inside and may casue more warts in the future. This is why it may take a long time to cure genital warts. Always talk to your doctor about your treatment and make sure you understand what to do and when to come back.
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Anonymous
Date Answered:
4/27/2003
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I just read an online article that a vaccine has been developed, but it needs a lot more time for testing etc. before it will become available to the public. They say it appears to be 100% effective though.
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Vincenzo
Date Answered:
6/13/2003
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