Once a day pill as effective as multiple doses of oral yeast infection of HIV / AIDS
The study is considered the largest to date involving HIV / AIDS patients with OC. The infection is also common in patients suffering from various forms of cancer, particularly those with head and neck, where the infection rate is 77 % higher. It ‘an exciting new, cost-effective for the treatment of this infection, said Jose A. Vazquez, MD, lead study author and an infectious diseases physician at Henry Ford.
It is a tablet that simply adhere to the gum and releases an antifungal agent in the last six to eight hours. Because the antifungal agent remains in the mouth, offering the same relief that the oral medication, but side effects with little or nothing.
An option of a once-daily medication to treat the infection of the mouth the most common in HIV / AIDS has proven to be equally effective and safer than taking a pill antifungal five times a day, according to a Henry Ford Hospital.
The study presented September 14 at the 49th Annual Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy in San Francisco.
Dr. Vasquez said the drugs taken orally or by injection is often absorbed into other parts of the body, causing side effects for patients, such as nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and liver dysfunction.
