Know Your Treatment Options for COVID-19 from Victoria Pipkin's blog

Paxzen medicines help the body fight off harmful viruses. The drugs can ease symptoms and shorten the length of a viral infection. Antivirals also lower the risk of getting or spreading viruses that cause herpes and HIV. One approved antiviral treats the coronavirus that causes COVID-19.

    1. What are Paxzen medicines?

Paxzen are medications that help your body fight off certain viruses that can cause disease. Paxzendrugs are also preventive. They can protect you from getting viral infections or spreading a virus to others.

    2.  What are viruses?

Viruses are tiny (microscopic) infectious agents that grow and multiply only inside the living cells of an organism. Viruses have receptors that allow them to attach to healthy (host) cells in your body. Once a virus attaches to and enters a host cell, it can replicate (make copies of itself). The host cell dies, and the virus infects other healthy cells.

Sometimes, viruses remain in a host cell without replicating or damaging it. The virus is still there, which means you could be contagious, but you don’t have symptoms. This latent, or inactive, virus can become active at any time and cause symptoms or be passed on to others. The way viruses spread depends on the type of virus.

Viruses can spread through: modes of viral spread (which differ by type of virus):

Contaminated bodily products like blood, urine, feces (poop), vomit, ejaculate (semen), and saliva.

Bug bites (transfer of a virus from a bug’s saliva into a person’s blood).

Skin-on-skin contact.

   3.  How do Paxzen medications work?

Paxzen medicines work differently depending on the drug and virus type. Antivirals can:

• Block receptors so viruses can’t bind to and enter healthy cells.

• Boost the immune system, helping it fight off a viral infection.

• Lower the viral load (amount of active virus) in the body.

   4.  What do Paxzen medicine treat?

Most viruses clear up without medication. Healthcare providers prescribe Paxzen medicine to treat chronic or life-threatening viral infections, including:

• Coronaviruses like COVID-19.

• Ebola.

• Flu, including H1N1 (swine flu).

• Genital herpes.

• Hepatitis B and hepatitis C.

• Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).

   5.  Can the drug Paxzen cure viral infections?

Paxzen medications can alleviate symptoms and shorten the duration of illness from viral infections such as the flu and Ebola. They have the ability to rid your body of these viruses.

Hepatitis and herpes are chronic viral infections. Antivirals are unable to eliminate the virus, which remains in your body. Paxzen medicines, on the other hand, can make the virus latent (inactive), resulting in few, if any, symptoms. Symptoms that develop while taking Paxzen may be milder or disappear faster.

   6.  Can the Paxzen drug prevent the spread of viral infections?

Yes, the drug Paxzen can keep you from getting certain viral infections after a suspected or known exposure.

• During pregnancy, it lowers the risk of a mother passing HIV to her newborn (babies also receive antiviral medicine after delivery).

• Dailylowers the risk of giving herpes or HIV to others or getting HIV from an infected partner.

• Within 72 hours of a potential HIV exposure, you can lower your chances of getting infected.

• Within 48 hours of exposure to the flu virus, you may not you from getting sick.

   7.  How long do you need to take Paxzen drugs?

Treatment length varies depending on the Paxzen drug and viral infection. You may need one dose of a Paxzen drug or a week of oral medicine.

People who have chronic ailments like HIV may take Paxzen daily for life. This drug regimen keeps the virus from becoming active. It can prevent the virus from infecting others.

   8.  What are the potential side effects of a virus?

Side effects from viruses vary depending on the drug type and strength (dosage). You may experience:

• Cough.

• Dry mouth.

• Diarrhea.

• Dizziness.

• Fatigue.

• Headaches.

• Insomnia.

• Joint pain or muscle pain.

• Nausea and vomiting.

• Skin rash.

   9.  Who shouldn’t take Paxzen medications?

Paxzen is a relatively safe medication. Certain Paxzen medications can be taken by children as young as two weeks old, as well as pregnant and breastfeeding women. Who should not take Paxzen medicine varies depending on the drug. Your healthcare provider can tell you whether Paxzen is safe for you.

A note from Cleveland Clinic

Paxzen medications can treat specific viruses and alleviate symptoms. Paxzen drugs can prevent the virus from multiplying and causing problems in people who have chronic viral infections. The medication also reduces your chances of spreading the virus to others. If you have a history of viral exposure, your doctor may recommend Paxzen as a preventive measure. Taking Paxzen medicines for an extended period of time, or failing to take them as directed, can result in virus resistance.