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AIDS is a terrible terminal disease, it will directly attack human immune cells, lead to the loss of human immunity, and finally cause a small cold, it will also become a life-threatening disease, and there is no specific drug for the treatment of this virus, and AIDS is also an infectious disease with a variety of ways of infection, and the extremely high mortality rate and incurable nature also make AIDS the first terminal disease.
With the popularization of physical examinations, statistics have found that the probability of the elderly suffering from AIDS is also increasing, and AIDS is not a good disease for young people? Why are more and more elderly people also suffering from this disease? Through the example of Aunt Li, we may be able to understand the reason.
Living in Hunan, 58-year-old Aunt Li's wife passed away early, she raised the child with hard work, and did not consider her own emotional problems, and when the children grew up, she felt the taste of loneliness alone, so she began to go to some dance halls, square dances and other places to seek emotional comfort, and thus met a lot of male partners, hidden dangers are thus buried.
Since 2019, Aunt Li has found that her weight has continued to decline, and she has frequent low-grade fever, in the face of her physical abnormality, Aunt Li is also a little confused, although she is very emaciated, but her appetite has not changed, her children have suspected that Aunt Li has diabetes, but the measurable fasting blood sugar is 5.9mmol/L, and there is no high blood sugar.
But with the passage of time, Aunt Li's physical condition is getting worse and worse, strings of tightly connected blisters began to appear on the skin of the body, and a dense white film is attached to the mouth.
After a comprehensive examination, I got a test result that surprised everyone, Aunt Li was actually infected with AIDS! The previous low-grade fever and weight loss were all caused by AIDS, and the shingles and thrush on her body were also obvious symptoms of AIDS. So the question is, why did Aunt Li get infected with this terminal disease?
After some inquiry, Aunt Li told her recent relationship history, it turned out that Aunt Li had met a lot of men, and had sex with several of them, and due to age, Aunt Li had already stopped menstruation, and they did not have the possibility of pregnancy when they had sex and did not do the corresponding safety measures, but they did not expect that people would be terminally ill because of this loneliness.
Aunt Li was lying in bed and regretted a lot, on the one hand, the huge medical expenses made Aunt Li bear huge mental pressure, and with the aggravation of her condition, her body was also suffering from serious torture. The reason why Aunt Li is in such a predicament is because she does not know about AIDS and does not know how AIDS is transmitted.
There are three ways of transmission of AIDS, blood transmission, mother-to-child transmission, and sexual transmission, sexual transmission is the main way of transmission of HIV, because male semen and female vaginal secretions will carry a large amount of HIV, and the process of sexual activity is easy to cause damage to the skin and mucous membranes, at this time, these body fluids with HIV will enter the human body through these tiny wounds, and finally cause people to be infected with AIDS.
This is the direct reason for the increase in the number of elderly people infected with AIDS, because they do not understand AIDS and do not understand the transmission route of AIDS, so the elderly often do not take safety measures when they have sex, which is also because they have lost their reproductive ability, but this way will undoubtedly lead to a great increase in the probability of AIDS, and Aunt Li is also infected with AIDS for this reason.
As children grow up, they often choose to live separately from the elderly, and slowly reduce the number of visits to the elderly, so the single elderly will have a serious sense of loneliness, hoping to fill this empty feeling by meeting the opposite sex, and then they will be infected with AIDS because they do not pay attention to the measures.
Aunt Li also told her children about these reasons, at this time Aunt Li's children also regretted their neglect of their mother's visit, and the family cried together into tears, but unfortunately this is already the case, no matter how much regret is irreparable, the doctor also expressed great regret when he saw this sad scene.
Doctors can only use antiviral therapy to prolong Aunt Li's life, although she tried her best to treat, but Aunt Li's luck is very bad, she has severe symptoms of tuberculosis infection, and also suffered from lung cancer, doctors speculate that this is because of the severe impaired immunity caused by the prevalence of malignant tumors increased dramatically. The family could only watch Aunt Li get haggard day by day, and finally regretted passing away.
The death of the mother made Aunt Li's children grief-stricken, and the doctor said with regret: Because many elderly people now think that AIDS is a disease of young people, they have relaxed their vigilance against this terrible disease, which has also led to a sharp increase in the prevalence of AIDS, and the tragedy of Aunt Li could have been avoided.
Then he continued: Let the elderly understand what AIDS is, AIDS will not find the elderly, and a tragedy like Aunt Li will not happen, so we must do these 4 things well, as long as you pay attention, then AIDS is nothing to be afraid of for the elderly.
Know how to prevent, for the elderly, do not understand the transmission of AIDS is the key to infection, they do not know how to prevent, although the infection through blood contact may be smaller, but the behavior is a serious information black hole, they always feel that safety measures are only done to not get pregnant, but do not know that many diseases are transmitted through sex, so to tell the elderly to improve their safety awareness, do a good job of safety measures, and avoid contact with unknown blood to prevent infection with AIDS because of blood transmission.
Regular physical examination, the elderly often feel that the physical examination is troublesome and a waste of money, Aunt Li is like this, when there is weight loss and low-grade fever, do not go to the physical examination in time, in fact, if AIDS is detected for treatment, Aunt Li can control the condition, so as to prolong her life and achieve an asymptomatic life for a lifetime. If there is too high-risk sexual behavior, it is more necessary to do relevant examinations to eliminate the danger in time, and if the blocking drugs are used in time, there is a very high probability of preventing HIV infection.
Enhance physical fitness, even if it is sex, the probability of infection with AIDS is not so high, in the case of low HIV content in body fluids, the probability of sexual infection with AIDS is less than 0.2%, at this time HIV into the human body may also be directly eliminated by the immune system, so that it can not replicate and reproduce, and for the elderly, because of the decline in resistance, there is often a great probability of infection after exposure to the virus, so by playing Baduanjin, It is very important to do Tai Chi and other ways to enhance the physical fitness of the elderly!
The last is emotional counseling, wrong sexual behavior is often caused by the psychological condition of the elderly is not taken seriously, the alienation of children, long-term loneliness leads to the elderly want to pursue a feeling of comfort, so we should pay attention to the mental health of the elderly, you can also find some healthy activities for the elderly to do, do handicrafts, travel, play cards or something, to help them relieve loneliness.
(Note: "Looking back on why more and more elderly people are infected with AIDS? 1 woman tells her personal experience and takes it as a warning" The names are pseudonyms, and some pictures are network pictures; reprinting and plagiarism are prohibited in the article)