Method for eliminating HIV in human blood and a device for treating AIDS with non-pharmacotherapy

• US 7,220,236 B2
• Filed: 07/19/2002
• Issued: 05/22/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 12/10/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences
• Original Assignee: Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences
• Inventors: Pan, Gang
• Primary Examiner(s): Stephens; Jacqueline F.
• Application Number:
  US10/497,792
• Publication Number:
  US 20050043666A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,768 Days
• Field of Search: 604/6.11, 604/5.01, 604/5.02, 604/6.14, 604/4.01, 424/501, 424/422, 424/426, 514/885, 514/816, 514/817, 422/44, 422/1, 422/4, 422/45
• US Class Current: 604/4.01
• CPC Class Codes: A61L 2/0011 using physical methods
• CPC Class Codes: A61L 2/10 Ultraviolet radiation
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 1/3681 by irradiation
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/053 ultraviolet

Abstract

The invention provides a method for eliminating HIV in human blood and a device for treating AIDS with non-pharmacotherapy. The method includes (1) pumping the blood containing HIV virus into a soft thin plastic tube while adding air through a T-tube at a definite frequency so that the blood is evenly divided into very small blood droplets (2) introducing the small blood droplets into a screw-shaped quartz tube and exposing the quartz tube under a definite dosage of radiation to kill the HIV virus in the blood droplets is (3) collecting the treated blood in a storage bottle. Results show that after the HIV infected blood is divided into very small blood droplets and is irradiated with a definite dosage of ultraviolet (253.7 nm) for 90 seconds, more than 92% HIV loads in the blood is eliminated, while the lymphocyte (CD4+), erythrocyte, leucocyte and haemoglobin remain almost unchanged.

Claims

1. A method for eliminating HIV in human blood comprising the steps of:

(1) pumping the HIV infected blood into a soft plastic tube with its middle part connecting to a gas source, which supplies a gas bubble at a definite frequency into the tube so as to divide the blood in the tube into very small blood droplets;

(2) introducing the small blood droplets into a thin quartz tube and irradiate the blood droplets to kill the virus inside the blood with a radiant point;

(3) collecting the treated blood droplets with a storage bottle, which may be transfused back to the human patient.

2. The method for eliminating HIV in human blood defined in claim 1, wherein the quartz tube is a disc-shaped screw quartz tube, and the radiant point is a disc-shaped ultraviolet lamp, and wherein the disc-shaped screw quartz tube is set under the disc-shaped ultraviolet lamp.

3. The method for eliminating HIV in human blood defined in claim 2, wherein the middle part of the soft plastic tube is clipped into a multi-channel wriggle pump and is connected to a gas source via a gas transporting pipe, on which a clamp is set to control the flow of the gas to an on or off mode at a desired frequency.

4. The method for eliminating HIV in human blood in claim 3, wherein the clamp includes a movable upper splint and a fixed lower splint, joined together with a pivot;

wherein the gas transporting pipe passes through the clamp between the splints; and

wherein a pinchcock is set around the pivot to the splints, and a rotational cam is set to bunt the upper splint at the open end.

5. The method for eliminating HIV in human blood defined in claim 3, wherein the method adopts extracorporeal circulative treatment to kill HIV, wherein a storage bottle for receiving virus infected blood is connected to a soft plastic tube and to the patient via an exsanguinating pipe, and wherein a storage bottle for collecting treated blood is connected to a transfusion bottle, which is connected to the patient via a blood transfusion pipe.

6. The method for eliminating HIV in human blood defined in claim 1, wherein the gas source is a gas chamber, in which at least one of clean air and a virus-killing volatile gas is stored.

7. A device for treating AIDS with non-pharmacotherapy comprising, in combination:

at least one soft plastic tube adapted for connection to a storage bottle for virus infected blood, having its middle part clipped into a multi-channel wriggle pump and connected to a gas source controlled by a clamp, and a thin quartz tube beside a radiant point adapted for connection through a soft plastic tube to a storage bottle for collecting treated blood.

8. The device for treating AIDS with non-pharmacotherapy defined in claim 7, wherein the thin quartz tube is a disk-shaped screw quartz tube, and the radiant point is a disk-shaped ultraviolet lamp, and wherein the screw quartz tube and the ultraviolet lamp are set in a thermostat.

9. The device for treating AIDS with non-pharmacotherapy defined in claim 7, wherein the quartz tube is an orbicular screw quartz tube, and the radiant point is a cannular ultraviolet lamp, and wherein the orbicular screw quartz tube is set around the cannular ultraviolet lamp.

10. The device for treating AIDS with non-pharmacotherapy in claim 7, wherein the clamp controlling the gas flow includes a movable upper splint and a fixed lower splint, jointed together with a pivot, wherein the gas transporting pipe passes through the clamp between the splints, and wherein a pinchcock is set around the pivot to the splints, and a rotational cam is set to bunt the upper splint at the open end.

11. The device for treating AIDS with non-pharmacotherapy defined in claim 10, wherein the gas source is a gas chamber, in which at least on of clean air and a virus-killing volatile gas is stored.

12. The device for treating AIDS with non-pharmacotherapy defined in claim 11, wherein the storage bottle for virus infected blood is connected to the patient via an exsanguinating pipe, and the storage bottle for treated blood is connected to a transfusion bottle, which is connected to the patient via a blood transfusion pipe.