A 60-year-old man came to the hospital because of dysphagia, and at first the doctor suspected that he was suffering from esophageal cancer, but the gastroscopy showed that the old man's esophagus was covered with dense white plaque-like substances, which attached to the esophageal wall, causing the entire esophageal edema and narrowing, so the old man had symptoms of dysphagia.
The doctor brushed down these white plaque-like substances with a cell brush for examination, and the results were clear for Candida albicans infection, Candida albicans, a kind of putrid parasite, usually lives in the skin, mucous membranes, digestive tract and other organs of the human body, when the body's resistance is reduced, Candida albicans will multiply, and when it reaches a certain amount, the human body will become ill, so Candida albicans is a conditional pathogenic bacteria.
Although Candida albicans is allowed in the digestive tract of the human body, they are few in number and do not cause disease, and only when the immune system is weakened will they be given the opportunity to deposition and erupt.
The question is, why did this 60-year-old man suddenly have a decrease in immunity?
Further examination revealed that the elderly man was living with HIV.
AIDS, also known as acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), is a systemic disease caused by infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), also known as HIV. HIV infection can lead to varying degrees of immune deficiency in the human body, which can explain why old men suffer from fungal esophagitis?
After being diagnosed with AIDS, the children of the old man are unbelievable, in their opinion, the old man is a very honest person, after the death of his wife five years ago, he has been single, although someone introduced a new wife to him, but the old man refused, so the impression of the neighbors on the old man is that he is particularly loyal, especially honest, and is a rare good man.
But who would have thought that such a good man would have been in and out of the red light district, and had dangerous sex without safety protection.
In his words, only once, but he didn't expect to be infected. He repented that he had not done it at the beginning.
According to data released by the National Center for Disease Control and Prevention, by the end of 2022, 1.223 million people living with HIV had been reported in mainland China, and a total of 418,000 deaths had been reported.
For people living with HIV, everyone thinks of young people, after all, young people are easy to be impulsive, but in addition to young people, you may not think that the elderly AIDS group is emerging.
According to an article released by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention and Prevention (CDC), the proportion of newly reported HIV infections and patients aged 50 and above in mainland China has increased significantly, from 22% in 2011 10 years ago to 44% in 2020. Comparing several provinces where HIV/AIDS first began to spread, the provinces with the highest proportion of newly reported HIV infections and patients in 2020 accounted for more than 60% of patients aged 50 and above.
Why is this happening?
This is because of the public's misunderstanding of the elderly, thinking that when people are older, they have no physiological needs, and they think that when they are older, they have physiological needs that are disrespectful to the old.
Such a misunderstanding can easily lead the elderly to desperately suppress themselves and hide themselves, but once they can't suppress it, they may take risks.
The elderly also have physiological needs, but if the physiological needs are not properly released, the elderly may be forced to take risks and have high-risk sexual behaviors.
Many elderly people feel that they may not live long, and they can be happy for a while, so they have no sense of self-protection at all, and even if they have abnormal symptoms, they are unwilling to go to the hospital for examination and treatment, which has buried huge hidden dangers for this group.
As far as the elderly are concerned, the only way to focus on the emotional life of the elderly is to relieve loneliness in the family and family relationships, so that the elderly no longer blindly seek stimulation and put themselves in dangerous situations. At the same time, it is necessary to promote safe behaviors among the elderly in order to avoid HIV infection to the greatest extent.