My stepmother has had some odd ailments for a few years and had been diagnosed with fibromyalgia. A couple months ago the doctor changed that to Parvovirus.
Parvo?? I had never heard of Parvovirus in humans before and while my researches have told me what it is, I’ve yet to find any sort of treatment for it.
She is now taking 3 months off work on doctor’s orders and my father mentioned that she may start some drug treatment that has really bad side-effects. (He couldn’t recall the name and said he’d get back to me.) They don’t have a computer so I said I’d see what I could find online. What I found was a lot of medical papers on it but nothing related to treatments, experimental or otherwise.
If anyone has had any experience with, please share.
As far as I know, its treatment is mainly concerned with alleviating symptoms (joint pain, etc). If she has a very severe case or she’s got a depressed immune system, she may need something stronger, like antiviral drugs.
It can also cause severe anemia, so maybe the new drug she’ll be taking is to help that?
I’m sorry I can’t be of more help - I only know what little about it I learned in class. But I found a site from the CDC (http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/diseases/parvovirus/B19.htm) that discusses parvovirus, complications, treatments, that sort of thing. Hope it helps, and I hope your stepmom gets good care and feels better soon!
I don’t know a lot about the strain humans can get, but I don’t think it’s nearly as contagious, nasty, or fatal as canine parvovirus. I do know that when one of us at the clinic has a (ahem) stomach ailment, that’s really bad, we make jokes about having parvo.
