AIDS is a very harmful infectious disease caused by infection with the human virus (HIV virus). HIV is a virus that attacks the body's immune system.
It takes the most important CD4T lymphocytes in the human immune system as the main target, destroying a large number of this cell and causing the body to lose immune function.
Therefore, the human body is susceptible to various diseases, and malignant tumors can occur, and the case fatality rate is high. The incubation period of HIV in the human body averages 8 to 9 years, and before developing AIDS, it is possible to live and work for many years without symptoms.
From infection with HIV to death can be divided into 3 stages
From the time a healthy person is infected with HIV (HIV) to death, it is generally divided into three stages:
The first stage is called the acute infection period of HIV, after infection, a small number of infected people will have symptoms similar to influenza, such as fever, laryngitis, rash, lymphadenopathy, etc., within 2-3 weeks, these symptoms will disappear naturally.
Then, the infected person enters the second stage, which is called the asymptomatic phase, which accounts for about 80% of the entire process from infection to death, when the patient is called an HIV carrier.
On the surface, most infected people are healthy, no different from normal people, but the immune system in their bodies is fighting the virus invisibly.
When the immune cells in the infected person's body are no longer able to compete with HIV, it marks the final stage of HIV infection, when the infected person is called AIDS patient, and they are very susceptible to other diseases.
Some common infectious diseases, such as pneumonia, which do not normally pose a threat to human life, will be uncontrollable once they enter AIDS, and people generally die within 6 to 24 months.
How does HIV destroy your immune cells?
HIV destroys large numbers of immune cells every day, and the bone marrow compensates for it by accelerating the production of new cells, but the rate of replenishment of new cells has always not kept pace with the rate of cell loss.
In the normal human body, there are about 800 to 1000 immune cells per cubic millimeter of blood, and in the infected person's body, the immune cells per cubic millimeter of blood gradually decline at a rate of 50-70 per year.
When the immune cells are reduced to only about 200 in a cubic millimeter of blood, the rate of descent accelerates, and finally it recedes.......
The asymptomatic period of an infected person can last as long as 2 years, as little as 2 years, as much as 20 years, and its length is closely related to the route of infection.
In general, menstrual blood infected people (mainly illegal blood collection and sharing syringes) are 4-5 years, sexual intercourse infection is generally 11-13 years, if an infected person's asymptomatic period can reach 13 years, it can be called a long-term survival.
In addition, AIDS patients due to the extreme decline in the body's resistance will appear a variety of infections, there will be a variety of bursts, such as continuous skin herpes, meningitis, cancer, tuberculosis, hepatitis, etc., a man of more than a hundred pounds of weight may drop to more than seventy pounds, unfortunately. Death may result in systemic failure.
Although many medical researchers around the world have made great efforts, so far no specific drugs have been developed to cure AIDS.
How to test yourself whether you have AIDS
Getting tested for HIV is the most authoritative way to tell if you're sick. Generally speaking, do it at least twice.
When the human body is infected with a virus, the body's immune system will start to produce antibodies and begin to annihilate the virus. However, when antibodies do not appear in the early stages of HIV infection, sometimes the test is not necessarily accurate, so if the infection is suspected, go a few more times.
There is currently no effective vaccine to prevent AIDS, so prevention is important!
AIDS is transmitted through blood, motherhood and sex. The first two are natural disasters, and there is no way to get it, only the last one is the most widely spread and the most easily infected.
Especially for sex workers, the potential for AIDS transmission is enormous.
1. Adhere to self-love, do not engage in prostitution or prostitution, and avoid premarital and extramarital sex.
2. It is strictly forbidden to take drugs and not to share syringes with others.
3. Do not use blood products for unauthorized blood transfusions, but use them under the guidance of a doctor.
4. Do not borrow or share personal items such as toothbrushes, razors, and facial shavers.
5. The use of condoms is one of the most effective measures to prevent STDs and AIDS during sex.
6. Avoid direct contact with the blood, semen, milk and urine of AIDS patients and cut off their transmission routes.