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Author Topic: Bad reaction to insect bites-HIV related?  (Read 38138 times)

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Offline HARLEY_B

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Re: Bad reaction to insect bites-HIV related?
« Reply #50 on: July 02, 2010, 07:17:23 pm »
I have the same problem with insect bites: severe swelling and tenderness in effected area...especially for ant bites. It  is almost always accompanied by swelling of the limb for several days..cellulitis I guess it's callled..I didn'tuse to react to isect bites.

Offline FarmerDave

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Re: Bad reaction to insect bites-HIV related?
« Reply #51 on: July 11, 2014, 01:02:27 am »
I have lived in mosquito rich areas for years and never thought muchof them.  In the spring I would get welts for maybe two weeks and then had no reaction.  I started my ARV meds about the time I went to work in Africa for awhile and started getting much worse reaction to any bites.  Mosquito bites would get much bigger and last for days if not a week.  I thought it was just new mosquito types in Afgrica, but now I am back in the US and the bad reaction is the same.  So it was nice to see I am not alone.  I found one article that says  people with HIV Lipoatrophy or fat lose have more problems with mosquitos - they are more attractive to mosquitos.  at
 http://cid.oxfordjournals.org/content/34/2/288.full
This article says they found no association with any specific ARV drugs just the HIV changes our subcut tissue. 

As far as the excess reaction once bi another article aready posted at
http://www.thebody.com/Forums/AIDS/SideEffects/Q209182.html

Keith Henry MD says it best:
HIV+ persons have high antibody titers so that can hypersensitize individual to allergens/insect bites. That phenomenon can be further heightened by immune recovery on effective therapy. Unclear whether switching to alternative effective regimen would result in any improvement though that could be considered on a trial basis. Often these are very frustrating situations with no easy answer

So does this keep getting worse or lead to other allergies.  I tried the Strdex and hydrogen peroxide and found out you have to do this very soon after being bit to work well.  These must destroy the mosquito antigen at the bite site

Offline tryingtostay

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Re: Bad reaction to insect bites-HIV related?
« Reply #52 on: July 14, 2014, 07:17:26 pm »
Yeah, it's a good sign if you get sever swelling almost welt like marks where you were bit that there is a problem.  I noticed it back in mid Feb 2014.  I though, "wow, that's crazy"

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Re: Bad reaction to insect bites-HIV related?
« Reply #53 on: July 15, 2014, 09:29:17 am »
I had a skitter bite me a couple of nights ago.  I swatted it almost immediately as I saw it land.  Still, I managed to have a severe reaction to it.  At least I captured a picture of it this morning to show my doctor.  There has to be something with all of this. 

It swelled pretty large before turning a nasty color then ruptured.  It has been the same with every bite I've had in recent years.  Imagine a torso full of these marks.  I had them entirely over my chest a while back.

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Re: Bad reaction to insect bites-HIV related?
« Reply #54 on: July 15, 2014, 05:09:53 pm »
Imagine a torso full of these marks.  I had them entirely over my chest a while back
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Can HIV make mosquito bites worse? - here's where we are still bitching about the same issue four yrs later ;)
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