Anaerobic Infection and HIV
HIV promotes dehydration, dehydration promotes anaerobic infection, anaerobic infection feeds on mold, mold is psychoactive. So people with HIV exposed to mold can suddenly get extremely nutso.
One potential source of exposure: Christmas decorations being unpacked that gets stored for much of the year.
I can't write about it elsewhere because I can't cite the voices in my head as a source of information.
1. Anaerobic infection feeds on mold. If you run a penitentiary or insane asylum and are dealing with HIV positive people locked up in your facility, be tough on mold. Mold plus anaerobic infection leads to incredibly crazy psycho behavior.
People may throw stuff when stripped out of their mildew smelling clothes. We have the emergency HIV exposure protocol because one of them bit a prison staff member.
3. Anaerobic infection thrives in low oxygen environments. That's what the very NAME means. So if there's anemia, lung issues or ANY condition impairing oxygenation, address those problems.
4. Because of three above, supplemental oxygen can be a useful therapy as can hyperbaric oxygen therapy (high pressure, high oxygen environment). Gangrene is an anaerobic infection already known to be treatable via hyperbaric oxygen therapy.
5. I have reason to believe various genetic disorders promote creeping low grade anaerobic infection that goes undiagnosed even if it gets rather bad. So this may be pertinent to improving people with Tay Sachs and CF.
Last, I dealt with a case where adding probiotics (yogurt) to try to address gut dysfunction caused a severe long-standing unrecognized anaerobic infection to go nuts, apparently by feeding mold which then fed the infection. This may be relevant to treating conditions like CF because research into stunting indicates simply feeding malnourished people more doesn't resolve their issues.
Repairing a dysfunctional gut so it's capable of digesting food can involve improving the gut biome and if there's mold and unrecognized anaerobic infection, you may suddenly have an extremely sick patient on your hands for no apparent reason.