Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is a common virus in the same family as herpesvirus, also known as HCMV (herpes cytomegalovirus) or CMV or HHV-5-human beta herpesvirus 5.
Cytomegalovirus or CMV, is a virus that belongs to the Herpesviridae family, hence its older name, “human herpesvirus 5 (HHV 5)”. Other members of this family include herpes simplex viruses (which cause cold sores and genital herpes), varicella-zoster virus (which causes chickenpox and shingles), and Epstein-Barr virus (which causes infectious mononucleosis, also known as “mono”).
After primary infection, this group of viruses can infect many-body systems and remain dormant in those cells for life. This is called “latent” infection. Latent infection can “reactivate” later in life to cause disease again.
Primary infection with Cytomegalovirus is common and may be asymptomatic. Primary CMV is one of the common causes of mononucleosis, or flu-like syndrome, including fever, fatigue, tiredness, malaise, and other symptoms. Primary infection with CMV has been referred to as “heterophile-negative” mononucleosis because it causes an illness similar to the Epstein-Barr virus, but the results of the heterophile antibody test for EBV will be negative.
CMV infection occurs in people of all ages worldwide. Experts estimate that more than half of the adult population throughout the world has been infected with CMV, and 80% of adults have had the infection by the time they are 40 years old. About one in 150 children is born with CMV infection (congenital cytomegalovirus).
About 30% women have infants with congenital cytomegalovirus infection (pass it to the baby when their latent CMV reactivates, becomes active in the blood during pregnancy).
Congenital cytomegalovirus infection causes more complications the earlier in pregnancy that the virus is passed from the mother. About 10%-15% of babies with it will have symptoms at birth, and up to 60% of these will have serious complications later in life.
Of babies who are infected but born without symptoms of cytomegalovirus, some may develop deafness in the months after birth. Although infections are the minority of cases of miscarriage or pregnancy loss, cytomegalovirus is the leading infection to cause miscarriages (a marking sign for Homeopaths).
According to allopathic theory, most healthy people do not experience any symptoms when infected with CMV, and it does not pose a serious health concern.
Although Homeopaths thinks that cytomegalovirus radiates/moves to other/inner organs to make their colonies deeper where they are more dangerous and hazardous to human health; that’s why cytomegalovirus should be treated in first chance/early stages.
Incubation period
The incubation period between the time of getting the virus and the time that symptoms develop ranges from three to 12 weeks in cases of documented CMV infection after a transfusion of infected blood. CMV infection is usually benign, and there is no public health or medical reason to screen for it routinely. In addition, CMV may be shed intermittently for a very long time. This makes it difficult to say what the incubation period maybe with the commoner forms of transmission, such as contact with saliva, urine, and genital fluids.
People at risk
Most healthy children and adults who do have symptoms will recover from CMV infection without complications and do not require antiviral treatment, because a majority of adults have antibodies consistent with past infection.
However, in those with a weakened immune system, Cytomegalovirus can cause serious diseases for example: retinitis, hepatitis, colitis, pneumonia, or encephalitis etc.
Infants born to mothers infected with Cytomegalovirus during pregnancy may develop congenital Cytomegalovirus infection.
Symptom
Fever
Fever. A feverish sensation, however, may occur when the body temperature is above the average normal of 98.6 degrees F. (37 degrees C).
Fever is part of the body’s own disease-fighting arsenal (immune system). Rising body temperatures apparently are capable of killing off many disease-producing organisms. For that reason, low fevers (102 or less) should normally go untreated. Although, if the fever is accompanied by any other troubling symptoms, patient should be treated certainly.
Causes
Cytomegalovirus spreads by direct contact with body fluids, such as saliva, blood, urine, semen, vaginal fluids, congenital infection, and breast milk. Thus, breastfeeding, blood transfusions, organ transplants, maternal infection, and sexual contact are possible modes of transmission, direct contact with body fluids from an infected person.
Most healthy children and adults do not experience any symptoms after infection with cytomegalovirus. However, cytomegalovirus may cause serious disease in people with a weakened immune system (such as those with HIV/AIDS or those taking medications that suppress immunity). cytomegalovirus can cause retinitis (blurred vision and blindness), painful swallowing (dysphagia), pneumonia, diarrhea (colitis), and weakness or numbness in the legs.
What types of disease does reactivation of latent cytomegalovirus?
Latent cytomegalovirus infection only rarely reactivates in healthy adults. Adults at risk for life-threatening reactivation with CMV disease include those who are immunosuppressed due to advanced HIV disease, those who receive intensive chemotherapy or immune-suppressing drugs, or those who receive organ or bone marrow transplants.
There is increasing evidence from both animal and human studies that cytomegalovirus-induced inflammation in blood vessels may play a role in atherosclerosis, or “hardening of the arteries.” Atherosclerosis may cause heart disease and stroke. Ischemic heart disease has been observed to occur more often in human and animal organ transplant recipients with CMV.
Ulcerative colitis (UC), which is a condition that may require anti-inflammatory and immunosuppressive drugs. Some studies have found cytomegalovirus in the colon tissue of up to 40% of those with severe ulcerative colitis that is not responding to corticosteroid anti-inflammatory treatment. People with steroid-resistant ulcerative colitis may need colectomy (total removal of the colon).
It is not clear whether cytomegalovirus is an innocent bystander in those with ulcerative colitis, although there is some evidence antiviral treatment may reduce colectomy in steroid-resistant cases. In these cases, cytomegalovirus is found in high quantity: cytomegalovirus DNA detected by PCR is often > 250 copies/mg of tissue’. And that is the point Homeopaths want to explain to allopathic researchers.
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Type of cytomegalovirus disease, associated with HIV
In those with HIV/AIDS, cytomegalovirus most often reactivates when the T cell count (T helper cells, or CD4 cells) drops below 50 cells/microL. One of the most common types of cytomegalovirus disease in people with advanced HIV/AIDS is cytomegalovirus retinitis, which may cause permanent blindness. Once
Highly active allopathic antiretroviral therapy (HAART, or ART) was introduced in 1996, the incidence of cytomegalovirus retinitis dropped by almost 90% but with too many and severe side effects. However, people still develop cytomegalovirus. Because many are not able to tolerate ART or develop resistance, or simply do not adhere to treatment.
Cytomegalovirus retinitis is a marker for 60% increased overall mortality in patients with HIV. For those whose T cell count remains low, overall mortality is 100%. In those whose T cells are under 100/microL, a dilated eye exam is recommended every six months for cytomegalovirus; if T cells are under 50/microL, screening should occur every three months. Cytomegalovirus reactivation in these patients is not limited to the eye and may be difficult to diagnose. Other manifestations of cytomegalovirus in advanced HIV disease include encephalitis, peripheral nerve damage, and disease of the gastrointestinal tract (esophagitis, enteritis, or colitis).
What type of cytomegalovirus disease occurs in transplant recipients?
In organ and marrow transplant recipients, cytomegalovirus is a common cause of disease. Bone marrow recipients require more intensive chemotherapy and immune suppression for both cure of the disease in patients requiring the transplant and to prevent rejection of the new bone marrow. They are thus at greater risk of serious cytomegalovirus disease than are other organ recipients.
The likelihood of cytomegalovirus disease in solid organ transplants ranges from 10%-30% depending on the type of organ, the level of immunosuppression, and “cytomegalovirus mismatch”. In bone marrow transplants, allogeneic (another person as donor) transplants have a 30% likelihood of cytomegalovirus disease, while autologous (self as donor) transplants have a 5% likelihood. Transplant recipients are screened for the presence of cytomegalovirus-specific antibodies, which indicate whether they have a latent infection (seropositive) or have never had it (seronegative).
Cytomegalovirus may cause acute primary disease if the recipient never had cytomegalovirus and acquires it after transplantation. The acute primary disease may also occur if the recipient is “cytomegalovirus-seronegative”, and the transplanted tissue or marrow contains latent cytomegalovirus (the donor was “cytomegalovirus-seropositive”). Cytomegalovirus-positive to cytomegalovirus-negative transplantation may be referred to as “cytomegalovirus mismatch” or “cytomegalovirus D+/R-.” A cytomegalovirus-positive recipient’s latent cytomegalovirus may reactivate during the first three to six months of intensive immunosuppression therapy.
Cytomegalovirus may cause either a viral syndrome or tissue invasive disease in these patients. Cytomegalovirus syndrome occurs within the first four months and includes fever, malaise, and upper gastrointestinal pain most commonly. Less often, diarrhea (enterocolitis) may occur. Suppression of bone marrow with decreased white blood cells (leukopenia) and platelets is common. Elevated liver enzymes (hepatitis) may occur, as well. Tissue invasive disease may include cytomegalovirus pneumonia, which can be severe. Unlike HIV, cytomegalovirus neurologic disease and retinitis are very unlikely in the transplant setting.
Cytomegalovirus also has been associated with ischemic heart disease in organ transplant recipients.
Donor blood and organs are screened for CMV antibodies as part of the donor screening process. Screening and antiviral therapy (for prevention or treatment of active disease) may be necessary after CMV D+/R- transplantation. Screening for CMV is performed by regular testing for CMV DNA in the blood. While CMV may be found in the blood even without active infection, its presence in these patients, especially with a rising trend, suggests active infection. If the invasive disease is suspected, CMV DNA can be sought in lung fluid (pneumonia), and tissue can be stained for the cytomegalovirus virus. Cytomegalovirus can often be detected in tissue by the way the virus particles (inclusion bodies) give cells a characteristic “owl eye” appearance.
Symptoms
Most people infected with cytomegalovirus do not report a history of symptoms or complications and do not recall any contact with an infected person, so most people are unaware they have been infected. Acute CMV infection may mimic flu or infectious mononucleosis caused by Epstein-Barr virus or liver infection by hepatitis A, B, or C. Mono-like symptoms may include fever, malaise (feeling unwell), enlarged lymph nodes, sore throat, muscle aches, loss of appetite, enlarged liver or spleen, and fatigue. Hepatitis-like symptoms and signs may include appetite loss, yellow eyes (jaundice), nausea, and diarrhea.
In people with suppressed immune systems, cytomegalovirus infection can attack different organs of the body and may cause blurred vision and blindness (cytomegalovirus retinitis), lung infection (pneumonia), painful swallowing (esophagitis), diarrhea (colitis), inflammation of the liver (hepatitis), or inflammation of the brain (encephalitis), which may cause behavioral changes, seizures, or coma.
Infants with congenital cytomegalovirus infection have no symptoms at birth, however, up to 20% of those without symptoms at birth will go on to develop deafness. Only about 10% of infants with congenital cytomegalovirus show signs and symptoms of the infection or develop complications. Other symptoms of cytomegalovirus at birth may include yellow skin, and eyes (jaundice), skin rash, premature birth, low birth weight, pneumonia, enlarged liver and spleen, microcephaly, or seizures.
What specialists treat cytomegalovirus infections?
Specialists usually become involved in the care of complicated cases of cytomegalovirus or when preventive treatment is needed. Most complicated cases are in individuals who have weakened immune systems, usually due to HIV, cancer chemotherapy, or bone and organ transplantation. Because cytomegalovirus may affect any organ system, multiple specialists may take part in the management, such as gastroenterologists, pulmonologists, oncologist, pediatric, ophthalmologist etc.
An infectious-disease specialist is often consulted as part of the care team to assist with monitoring, preventive antivirals, diagnosis, or treatment of active infection. Pediatric infectious-disease specialists may manage the care of infants with congenital cytomegalovirus.
Diagnosis
Most cytomegalovirus infections go undiagnosed because the virus usually causes little or no symptoms. When a person is infected with cytomegalovirus, antibodies (IgM and/or IgG) develop and stay in the body for the rest of the person’s life. A blood test to detect the antibodies will be positive if the person has had a cytomegalovirus infection. If the antibody test is negative, the person is considered to be un-infected with cytomegalovirus.
If a “definitive” diagnosis of active cytomegalovirus infection is necessary, the virus can be found in bodily fluids (such as blood, saliva, or urine) or body tissues by culturing the virus or detecting its DNA or specific protein called pp65 antigen by PCR tests.
These tests are done if a person has signs and symptoms consistent with an active cytomegalovirus infection. The virus can become reactivated from its latent state (latent infection) when a person’s immune system has weakened. Tissue biopsy of affected body systems may sometimes show clumps of cytomegalovirus in the cells, called “inclusion bodies.” Cytomegalovirus inclusion bodies make the infected cell look like an “owl’s eye” under the microscope.
These tests may be done if a woman develops symptoms of cytomegalovirus infection during pregnancy in order to provide counseling and possible treatment for congenital cytomegalovirus. They may also be done to diagnose a congenital cytomegalovirus infection; if cytomegalovirus is detected in a newborn’s urine, saliva, blood, or other body tissues within two to three weeks after birth.
Allopathic treatment for cytomegalovirus infection
There is no allopathic cure for cytomegalovirus. Those at very high risk of developing severe cytomegalovirus infection may be placed on prophylactic antiviral medication to help prevent cytomegalovirus disease, to somehow reduce the number of cytomegalovirus infections in these patients.
The allopathic antiviral medications against cytomegalovirus include the following:
- Ganciclovir is the drug of choice, because its first allopathic antiviral medication approved for the treatment of cytomegalovirus infection. Ganciclovir, given intravenously. Side effects include fever, rash, diarrhea, anemia, and low white blood cell and platelet counts.
- Valganciclovir is an oral medication that is activated to ganciclovir in the body and is widely used to prevent cytomegalovirus infection (prophylaxis). It is used in selected patients for the treatment of cytomegalovirus infection and is as effective as intravenous ganciclovir in milder cases.
- Foscarnet is active against cytomegalovirus by a different mechanism than ganciclovir and is used to treat infections with cytomegalovirus that are resistant to ganciclovir. It is a second-line therapy for patients who do not tolerate ganciclovir treatment. Foscarnet is severe toxic to the kidneys and can cause seizures due to an imbalance of minerals and electrolytes.
- Cidofovir is another drug for patients who have failed ganciclovir and foscarnet treatment. Its use is limited due to its severe toxicity to the kidneys. It is used mainly for the treatment of cytomegalovirus infection of the eye (retinitis) in patients with acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
- Cytomegalovirus immune globulin contains antibodies (proteins) that are specific to cytomegalovirus. It may be prescribed to prevent cytomegalovirus infection in high-risk lung transplant patients when given in addition to ganciclovir. It is also used with ganciclovir to treat cytomegalovirus pneumonia.
No allopathic antiviral drug is currently available for the prevention of congenital cytomegalovirus infection.
Homeopathic Treatment for Cytomegalovirus and it’s complications
With Homeopathic medicines cytomegalovirus is completely curable in very short time period (10-30 days – individual). The symptoms listed against each medicine may not be directly related to cytomegalovirus because in homeopathy general symptoms and constitutional indications are taken into account for selecting a remedy.
Note: None of these medicines should be taken without professional advice, said Dr Qaisar Ahmed.
Petroleum
Petroleum acts on sweat and oil glands, symptoms worse during the winter season. Burning pain, itching, redness, excoriation, and oozing, or itching pimples and tatters, on scrotum and between scrotum and thigh. Diminished sexual desire, frequent nocturnal discharges. Discharge of prostatic fluid (Prostatitis), weakness and nervous irritability after coition. Reddish eruption on glans, with itching.
In female patients, Catamenia too early, with a menstrual flux which excites itching. Leucorrhea like egg white, Leucorrhea with lascivious dreams. During pregnancy diarrheas and vomiting. Itching and furfur on the mammie; the nipples itch and have a mealy coating.
Nitric Acidum
Skin dryness, Itching nettle-rash, especially in open air. Blackness of pores, brown spacelabs, reddish brown spots and deep-colored aphelia on skin. Copper or violet-colored spots. Itching titters, pimples, or exanthema in general; stinging exanthema, corns on feet with pain. Large furunculi. Mercurial ulcers. Carious ulcers with burning pains (especially when they are touched) and bleed easily. Condyloma moist, like cauliflower, hard, rhagade, or in thin pedicles. Tightness of skin. Swelling of glands, warts, wens.
Violent itching in genital organs, falling off of hair from parts, excoriation between scrotum and thighs. Red spots covered with scabs on prepuce. Small, itching vesicles on prepuce, bursting soon and forming a scurfy. Secretion behind glans, as in gonorrhea Bolani. Swelling, inflammation of prepuce, and phimosis. Paraphimosis. Ulcers, like Cancers (after Mercury; especially with exuberant granulations), on prepuce and glans (with pricking, stinging pains).
Deep, fistulous, irregular, ragged ulcers on the glans, with elevated, lead-colored, extremely sensitive edges. Syphilis; secondary syphilis. Excrescences, like sycosis, on prepuce and glans, with smarting pain and bleeding when touched, with oozing of a fetid and sweetish pus. Red, scurfy spots on the corona glands. Relaxation of testes. Inflammatory swelling of testes, with painful drawing of the spermatic cord, as far as side of abdomen. Absence of sexual desire and of erections. Great lasciviousness, with copious discharge of prostatic fluid. Painful, and almost spasmodic, nocturnal erections. Frequent nocturnal emissions.
Itching, burning pain, and sensation of dryness in vulva, great failing off genital hairs. Stitches up vagina, or from without inward, when walking in open air. Violent stitches in vagina. Excoriations in vulva between thighs, Ulcer, with burning itching in vagina. Excrescences on vaginal portion of uterus as large as lentils; great voluptuousness of mucous membrane in genitals after coitus. Uterine hemorrhages from overexertion of body. Metrorrhagia, a principal remedy. Coffee-ground, offensive discharge from uterus at climaxes, or after labor.
Hard nodosities on breast. Atrophy of breasts, chapping of the skin, or cracks may extend deeply into the tissues, brown spacelabs, titters, ulcers suppurating, with copious pus. Dry and itching eruptions, like scabies, brown, or vinous, or else reddish, and herpetic spots on skin. Annular desquamation (annular herpes). Moist, scabious herpes, with itching and burning sensation.
Sepia
Homeopathic medicines for genital herpes have burning itching, humid or scurfy herpes preputial; choppy herpes, with a circular desquamation of skin. Eruptions on glans and labia; indolent Cancers; itching and dry eruptions on genitals, condyloma; chancres on glans and prepuce.
Hard nodosities on breast. Atrophy of breasts, chapping of the skin, or cracks may extend deeply into the tissues, brown spacelabs, titters, ulcers suppurating, with copious pus. Dry and itching eruptions, like scabies, brown, or vinous, or else reddish, and herpetic spots on skin. Annular desquamation (annular herpes). Moist, scabious herpes, with itching and burning sensation.
Sarsaparilla
Herpes and offensive sweat about genitals; the skin lies in folds; eruptions are prone to appear in spring, their base inflamed, the crusts detach readily out of doors and the adjoining skin becomes chapped. Emaciated, shriveled, lies in folds, dry, flabby. Herpetic eruptions; ulcers. Rash from exposure to open air; dry, itching; comes on in spring; becomes crusty. Rhagades; skin cracked on hands and feet. Skin hard, indurated Intolerable stench on genitals. Herpetic eruption on genitals. Itching on scrotum and perineum.
Nipples small, withered, retracted. Before menstruation, itching and humid eruption of forehead. Menses late and scanty. Moist eruption in right groin before menses
Natrum muriaticum
Greasy, oily, especially on hairy parts. Dry eruptions, especially on margin of hairy scalp and bends of joints. Fever blisters. Urticaria; itch and burn. Crusty eruptions in bends of limbs, margin of scalp, behind ears. Warts on palms of hands. Eczema; raw, red, and inflamed; worse, eating salt, at seashore. Affects hair follicles. Alopecia. Hives, itching after exertion. Greasy skin.
Itching, titters, and excoriation between scrotum and thighs. Itching and stinging on glans and scrotum., secretion behind glans, like gonorrhea Bolani. Phimosis.
Excessive excitement of genital organs, and of the amative feelings; or dullness of sexual desire. Want of energy during coition. Impotence. Pollutions after coition. Strong fetid odor from genital organs. Hydrocele. Loss of hair from pubes.
Prolapsus uteri with aching in loins, itching in genital organs, Repugnance to coition – Coition painful from dryness of vagina; burning smarting during; in anemic women with dry mouth and dry skin. Leucorrhea – Acrid (greenish) increased discharge when walking. Abundant discharge of transparent, whitish, and thick mucus from vagina. Uvulitis with falling off of hair. Itching of external parts with falling off of hair. Pimples on mons veneris.
Child refuses breast; nursing sore mouth. Lancinating pains in breasts. Stitches beneath nipples (Breasts sensitive to slightest touch).
Graphitis
Obstinate dryness of the skin, absence of perspiration. Red spots on the skin, like fleabites. Erysipelatous inflammations, vesicular erysipelas, like zona, on the abdomen and on the back. Itching of the varices on the lower limbs. Itching-stinging on the surface of a mole. Eruptions oozing out a thick honey-like fluid. Titters are humid, scabby eruptions, sometimes with secretion of corrosive serum, or with itching in the evening, and at night. Eruption of pimples and nodules (principally under hair and on covered parts) which itch very much. Swelling and induration of the glands.
Encysted tumors, Corrosive nodules. Excoriation of the skin (in the bends of the limbs, groins, neck, behind the ears), especially in children, Proud flesh, and fetid pus, in ulcers, with tearing pains, burning, and shooting. Scrofulous and syphilitic ulcers. Burning pain in an old cicatrix. Deformity and thickness of the nails.
Tension and cramp-like pains in the genital parts, with troublesome voluptuous ideas. Eruption of pimples on the prepuce, and on the penis. Dropsical swelling of the prepuce and the scrotum.
Great aversion to coitus. Vesicles and pimples on the vulva, Excoriation on the vulva and between the thighs. Soreness of the vagina.
Cutting pains on the appearance of the catamenia and during the catamenia, flow of blood from the anus, pains in the limbs, ulcers become worse, swelling of the cheeks or of the feet, catarrh, with hoarseness and coryza, toothache, Painful sensibility and excoriation of the breasts, with eruption of running phlyctenule. Obstruction and induration of the mammary glands. Hard cicatrices remaining after mammary abscess.
Hepar Sulphuricum
Abscesses: suppurating glands are very sensitive. Papules prone to suppurate and extend. Ulcers/acne in youth. Suppurate with prickly pain, easily bleed. Unhealthy skin: every little injury suppurates. Chapped skin, with deep cracks. Ulcers, with bloody suppuration, smelling like old cheese and are very sensitive to contact, burning, stinging, easily bleeding. Sweats day and night without relief. “Cold sores” very sensitive, Sticking or pricking in afflicted parts. Putrid ulcers, surrounded by little pimples. Great sensitiveness to slightest touch. Chronic and recurving urticaria. Smallpox. Herpes Cincinnatus. Constant offensive exhalation from the body.
Herpes, sensitive, bleed easily. Ulcers externally on prepuce similar to chancre. Excitement and emission without amorous fancies. Itching of glans, frenum, and scrotum. Suppurating inguinal glands. Figworts with offensive odor. Humid soreness on genitals and between scrotum and thigh. Obstinate gonorrhea.
Discharge of blood from uterus. Itching of pudenda and nipples, worse during menses. Menses late and scanty. Abscesses of labia with great sensitiveness. Extremely offensive leucorrhea. Smells like old cheese. Profuse perspiration at the climacteric.
Merc sol
Vesicular and pustular eruptions. Ulcers, irregular in shape, edges undefined. Pimples around the main eruption. Itching, worse from warmth of bed. Crusta lactea; yellowish-brown crusts, considerable suppuration. Glands swell every time patient takes cold. Buboes. Orchitis
Vesicles and ulcers; soft chancre. Cold genitals. Prepuce irritated, itches. Nocturnal emissions, stained with blood.
Menses profuse, with abdominal pains. Leucorrhea excoriating, greenish and bloody; sensation of rawness in parts. Stinging pain in ovaries. Itching and burning; worse, after urinating; better, washing with cold water. Mammie painful and full of milk at menses.
Kreosotum
Skin.-Soft, unnatural feel of skin, with pegged teeth.-Violent itching all over body, esp. towards evening, and with burning sensation in arms and legs, after scratching.-Burning itching at night, and heat over whole body.-Nettle-rash.-Eruption, like bug-bites, with violent itching esp. in evening.-Large, greasy-looking, pox-shaped pustules over whole body.-Mealy and pustular, dry or humid titters (on backs of hands and fingers, in palms, on ears, elbows, knuckles, and malleoli), with violent itching in almost every part of body.
Burning in genitals (during coition) and impotence. Prepuce bluish black with hemorrhages and gangrene.
Premature catamenia, burning in the parts, Dwindling away of mammie, with small, hard, painful lumps in them. Cramp-like pains in external genitals. Excoriation, with smarting pains between genitals and thighs. Shootings in vagina, as if produced by electricity. Voluptuous itching in vagina. Itching in vagina, inducing rubbing in evening, succeeded by smarting, swelling, heat, and induration of external parts, with soreness in vagina when urinating.
Desire for coition especially in morning, after coition, pain, as of excoriation, and hard knottiness in neck of uterus, or swelling of the genital parts (both male and female) with burning pains (worse in morning than in evening). After coition discharge of dark blood, the next day. Vaginal Prolapses. Prolapsus uteri. Pulling, stitches, and shootings in the mammary glands.
Medorrhinum
Yellowness of ski, Intense and incessant itching (and pricking) all over (back, vagina, labia etc). Fiery red band passing down neck, back, and perineum, and involving genitals and pubes. Fiery red rash about anus in babies the water/wetting scalds it terribly.
Scald-head. Tinea capitis, eyelids involved. Copper-colored spots (syphilitic) remaining after eruptions, thin yellow-brown and detach in scales, leaving skin clear and free. Small pedunculated warts, with pinheads, like small button mushrooms, on various parts of body and thigh. Favus. Fetid odor of body. Pains along urethra while urinating, drawing burning. (Suppressed gonorrhea).
Variolinum
Exanthema of sharp, pointed pimples, usually small, seldom large and suppurating, dry, resting on small red areolae, frequently interspersed with spots of red color, sometimes severe itching. Petechial eruptions.
Var. 30 warded off an attack of smallpox after intense sickness of stomach had been caused by the smell of a case.
Var. 1m in water every two hours, given on third day of eruption of a confluent case cut short the attack.
Shingles. Enlargement of testicle. Hard swelling of testicle.
Alumen
Tendency to induration of neck of uterus and mammary glands. Chronic yellow vaginal discharge. Chronic gonorrhea, yellow, with little lumps along urethra. Aphthous patches in vagina. Menses watery.
Ulcers, with indurated base. To be thought of in indurated glands, epithelioma, etc; veins become varicose and bleed. Indurations resulting from long-continued inflammatory irritations. Glands inflame and harden. Alopecia, Scrotal eczema and on back of penis.
Sulphur
Skin dry, scaly, unhealthy; every little injury suppurates. Freckles. Itching, burning; worse scratching and washing. Pimply eruption, pustules, rhagades, hangnails. Excoriation, especially in folds. Feeling of a band around bones. Skin affections after local medication. Pruritus, especially from warmth, in evening, often recurs in spring and in damp weather.
Prognosis
Fatigue may last for several months after the asymptomatic infection is over; but will disappear along with Homeopathic treatment in few days; prognosis with allopathic treatment depends on how severe the cytomegalovirus infection is and the person’s underlying immune system.
Approximately one in five infants born with cytomegalovirus infection will have permanent hearing loss, blindness and developmental disabilities, however Homeopathic treatment can improve outcomes.
Children diagnosed with congenital cytomegalovirus infection should have regular vision and hearing screenings.
Complications
Treated Homeopathically, cytomegalovirus rarely causes complications. In case of allopathic treatment, the risk of complications is higher in individuals with weakened immune systems.
Cytomegalovirus can infect the stomach and intestines, causing fever, abdominal pain, blood in the stool, and inflammation of the colon (colitis). Inflammation can also occur in the liver (hepatitis), lung (pneumonitis), and brain (encephalitis). Infection in the eye (retinitis) can cause blindness. Newborns with congenital cytomegalovirus infection can develop hearing and vision loss, mental disability, and seizures.
Along with influenza viruses, Campylobacter, and other pathogens, cytomegalovirus is one of the infections associated with Guillain-Barré syndrome.
It is not possible to prevent cytomegalovirus infection with any allopathic drug. However, allopathic researchers are studying experimental vaccines on humans. It may be a number of years before there is an approved cytomegalovirus allopathic medicine.
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