Why sterilizing the blood is not used to fight diseases like AIDS ?

Question

I was reading an article in Discover about a promising technology to fight AIDS by a cobination of lazer and sound to kill the virus by getting the blood out into a tube and then sterilizing it this way before it goes back to the body . they say it will take maybe a decade before this technology be applied on people . and i wonder . if sterilizing the blood is the solution why then aren't there other options to be tested ? does using ozone help ? have anybody thought about using UV ? does raising the temperature of the blood in a tube help ? how about the sun radiation ? all this time nobody knows how to sterilize the blood without harming the blood cells ?

Answer 1

sterilizing anything means killing all living matter in it. Blood is a living organ ( yes an organ but a liquid one) and sterilizing it would turn it into dead stuff, not blood.

Answer 2

This could probly work. Because there is something called blood dialysis, where blood is pumped into a machine to be filtered because the kidneys are not working. So I'm sure they could pump blood out into a machine that could remove HIV, but we wouldn't want to bankrupt the pharm companies now would we?

Answer 3

Somehow in the future it might sound feasible but the key problem would be getting all of the blood out of the body.  Even allowing it to flow into some contraption out of the body and back in there would be no way to ensure that every single cell went through.  In my mind the only way to kill the virus would be to inject some type of drug into the blood.

Answer 4

From 2002 Douglas Report But hepatitis B is NOT "maddeningly untreatable." In treating AIDS patients over ten years ago, I found that those with hepatitis B infection responded without exception to UV light therapy (photoluminescence). Keep in mind that these were patients with severely damaged immune systems, yet they consistently responded to UV light therapy. Yet this is rarely offered as an option in traditional medicine.

So what's going on here? Why aren't they using a therapy that can save millions of lives, safely and cheaply? It's because of a strange blindness in the scientific mind that goes back throughout history, one that's mysterious and downright bizarre. Scientists-especially in medicine-have been mesmerized by what they think they know. Their cage of certitude is almost impenetrable, to the detriment of us all.

From the January 2001 Douglas Report (not about AIDS)

But perhaps the most effective treatment I have encountered is photoluminescence in conjunction with intravenous hydrogen peroxide therapy. Photoluminescence involves withdrawing a small portion of blood from the vein, exposing the blood to ultraviolet light, and then re injecting it back into the patient's body. Intravenous hydrogen peroxide can enhance the effects of photoluminescence. Unfortunately, it is difficult to locate clinics providing this treatment. However, the Freedom Center for Advanced Medicine in Provo, UT, run by Dr. Judith Moore and Dr. Dennis Remington (a member of the American College for Advancement in Medicine), does offer this unique and life-saving therapy. For details on their services, contact them at [phone] or www.freedommedcenter.com.

This seems hookie at first but if you kill a small portion of a virus or bacteria and NOT filter it out of the blood, you have in effect created a very specific vaccine

Answer 5

ISRS doesn't use sound--it was an analogy. laser light energy vibrates capsids much the same way high frequency sound vibrates glass (shattering it).

sure, this method could work in combination with exisiting dialysis technology. however you have to remember this is a virus that injects it's genome into host dna, hijacks cell protein factories, pumps out more virus to infect more cells, starting this cycle over and over again. destroying free-floating virus is all well and good, but this method does nothing for integrated virus dna--which hides withing your cells.

you don't want to ever expose your blood to ozone or heat treatment or irradiation as these methods of sterilization are not selective--you kill everything and not just the pathogens; blood is very much alive and these sterilization treatments will kill this tissue (blood is considered a connective tissue fyi).

sterilization is a tricky thing since all organisms are pretty much made from the same parts and so we are all "equally" susceptible to the same killing methods. but that's a simplification.

10 years is about average for getting regulatory approval.

Answer 6

Wouldn't you have to drain all the blood and cycle it through, and how do you prevent contaminating cleaned blood. I guess sounds doable.