Doctor, I have a headache and fever, and I have taken cold medicine, but it doesn't work at all! The man sitting in the consultation room is flushed and depressed.
I just did four tests, and the body temperature was as high as 39 degrees Celsius, and the whole person was already burning and flushed.
What's worse is that the man still has a severe headache, the doctor has to pay attention to it, if it is a headache caused by fever, then it is better, as long as the cause of the fever is found, but if it is not a headache caused by fever, then the trouble is big, at this time the doctor should be highly vigilant for intracranial diseases, especially intracranial infectious diseases, the progress is very fast, if the treatment is not timely, the patient may die in a short time.
Before the cause can be determined, doctors must be as Sherlock Holmes as they are, and every detail is crucial.
He, 50 years old, widowed, owner of a tea house, financially wealthy, usually in good health, about five days ago, he went on a trip once, and then came back and started to have a headache.
The doctor asked him if he had eaten unclean food or had a cold during the trip, he thought for a while, shook his head, and said that he had a lot of fun during the trip and there was nothing abnormal.
He had no symptoms other than headache and fever, and the doctor did not find anything abnormal through a CT scan of the head, which of course did not rule out an intracranial infection. So the doctor recommended that he be hospitalized for a comprehensive examination.
After hospitalization, the first thing is to take a blood test, and the next day is to have a lumbar puncture, the purpose of which is to draw cerebrospinal fluid for examination. But the next day, the doctor told him that he didn't need to do it, because the results of the blood draw yesterday came out, which showed that the man was HIV positive.
Hearing the doctor's words, the man was incredulous, and he said to the doctor, "My wife died five years ago and I have always been alone."
The doctor said, don't worry, the hospital's HIV test is only a preliminary screening, and there is a retest, that is, another tube of blood will be taken and sent to the Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention for examination, and if the result is still positive, then the diagnosis can be confirmed.
The patient accepted the doctor's advice.
Three days later, the results of the retest came out, the HIV was still positive, and when I got the confirmation report, the doctor said, you must be infected, and now it has been diagnosed.
Doctor, I just have a headache and fever, I don't understand what it has to do with AIDS?
The doctor told the man that AIDS is a contagious disease that attacks the immune system, and when a person's immunity collapses, various microorganisms will take advantage of the weakness, which will not only cause fever, but also a series of neurological symptoms, including headache, epilepsy, impaired consciousness, physical impairment, mental symptoms and so on.
If you keep thinking about problems according to the abnormality of the head, it is easy to miss or misdiagnose.
Doctors also told men that AIDS is a sexually transmitted disease and that high-risk sexual behavior is the most important way to spread it.
Eventually, the man admitted that although he was widowed, he had high-risk sexual behavior, he cried bitterly, his wife died of breast cancer five years ago, but he had been in a state of depression for a long time to take care of his sick wife, and after his wife died, he chose madness to release the pressure.
Because he is the owner of a tea house, plus he has done some other business, so he is financially wealthy, and he has sex with multiple partners on the grounds of love, but he never thought that he was infected with AIDS.
He wept bitterly that his fate was miserable! First he was widowed, and now he is infected with AIDS, but he ignores the fact that people are either positive or negative in the face of setbacks, and although taking care of his sick wife for a long time makes him very stressed, this cannot be a reason for indulgence.
There is no shortcut to stay away from AIDS, only to clean yourself!