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AIDS is the most desperate infectious disease in human history, HIV will directly attack the body's immune system, it parasitizes in the body's T lymphocytes, replicates and multiplies, resulting in a large number of T lymphocytes death, resulting in the need for T lymphocytes to lose the immune response, and eventually leads to damage to the immune system, so the full name of AIDS - acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, is a disease that will make people lose their immunity.
The terrible thing about AIDS is that its incubation period is very long, and the asymptomatic period of AIDS can reach 6 to 8 years, at this time the patients carrying the virus are not much different from ordinary people, but there is deadly HIV in their body fluids, and the patients do not know it, not only lose valuable treatment time, but also have a high probability of transmitting HIV to others, leading to the recurrence of tragedy!
So is there really nothing there is to do in the face of AIDS? In fact, even in the asymptomatic period of AIDS, the body will show corresponding abnormalities, but it is often because people do not pay attention to it, thinking that it is just an ordinary skin disease, and finally wait until the AIDS period begins to have very serious symptoms before they begin to regret it!
Mr. Luo from Sichuan was fortunate that the doctors discovered the changes in his body, which helped him discover the existence of AIDS early. Mr. Luo, 56 years old, is an authentic migrant worker, because he goes out to work all the year round, he is not willing to be lonely, he has also tried to have fun several times, and has not done the corresponding protective measures, although he is greedy for enjoyment and stimulation, but Mr. Luo is infected with AIDS because of this high-risk sexual behavior.
In May 2015, Mr. Luo, who had finished paying his salary, went to look for a stimulus again, and the next night, Mr. Luo caught a cold and began to have obvious symptoms of fever and sore throat. Although he was very confused, it was impossible for Mr. Luo to go to the hospital for this kind of minor illness, so Mr. Luo also bought some antipyretic medicine and rested.
Unexpectedly, the symptoms became more and more serious at night, and in the middle of the night, there were bursts of sweat on his body, sweat wet the whole bed, Mr. Luo slept not very peacefully, tossed all night, and got up the next day, the symptoms did not improve, it seems that the antipyretic medicine did not have any effect at all, and because of the lack of rest at night, Mr. Luo got up in the morning and was nauseous, so he asked for leave, continued to lie in bed to rest, and asked someone to help buy some antiviral oral liquid, and bought several more fever-reducing drugs.
Later, he took a lot of drugs one after another, but the symptoms did not get better, but three days later, Mr. Luo began to have diarrhea, which was like a symptom of acute gastroenteritis, so Mr. Luo took drugs for the treatment of gastroenteritis, just like that, Mr. Luo took a lot of miscellaneous medicines, and he didn't know that the medicine had an effect, and after more than a week, Mr. Luo recovered.
But has Mr. Luo really recovered? In fact, it is not, because after AIDS enters the body, it begins to attack T lymphocytes and become active, replicating in large quantities, causing people to have symptoms similar to cold, fever and gastroenteritis, this stage lasts for about 1 week to 3 weeks before it slowly relieves, and this is the acute infection period of AIDS, and then it enters the asymptomatic period of AIDS, which is also the incubation period of HIV, at this time these viruses will quietly destroy the immune system, resulting in a continuous and slow decrease of T lymphocytes.
But Mr. Luo didn't know this, so time passed slowly, in January 2019, Mr. Luo began to appear red spots on his body, densely connected into a large patch, at first Mr. Luo thought it was allergies, did not care much, but did not expect these red spots to dissipate for a long time, and with scratching it is easy to break, and often the broken skin will flow pus, and it will not heal for a long time.
Therefore, Mr. Luo was very traumatic, red spots and itching, he still didn't dare to scratch, and the ulcer still felt a dull pain, so Mr. Liu went to the dermatology department of the hospital for treatment, the hospital initially suspected eczema, so he prescribed a lot of drugs to Mr. Luo, but after Mr. Luo took the medicine, the situation did not improve. In desperation, Mr. Luo found the doctor again, and the doctor had nothing to do about Mr. Luo's situation, so he could only call his own leader to help.
The chief physician looked at Mr. Luo's broken skin, looked at it for a while, and then asked Mr. Luo to open his mouth wide. But he did so, but he didn't expect the chief physician to say to Mr. Luo after looking at Mr. Luo's mouth: You should go for an HIV western blot test. Although Mr. Luo didn't know what the western blot was, Mr. Luo understood it, and he was surprised: Doctor, are you kidding? What can I do with HIV?
The doctor looked into Mr. Luo's eyes and sighed, the unexplained erythema on your body is already very abnormal, I looked at the condition of your mouth again, and the condition of your mouth also indicates that you may have HIV infection, you should go and check it out! Although Mr. Luo was very reluctant, he still followed the doctor's arrangement and did the relevant examinations, and he made up his mind in his heart that if there was nothing abnormal, he must make a big fuss in the director's office!
But when the test results came out, Mr. Luo looked at the test results, his brain became blank, it turned out that his test report was clearly written - HIV antibody positive, how could he get AIDS, he really got AIDS, all kinds of questions and emotions were intertwined, Mr. Luo instantly collapsed, tears couldn't stop flowing.
However, fortunately, because it was not too late to be discovered, after antiviral treatment, Mr. Luo's survival time was greatly extended, and it is conservatively estimated that Mr. Luo can survive with the disease all the time! Mr. Luo was sincerely grateful to the doctor for saving his life, and he was even more grateful to the director of the dermatology department who discovered his abnormality in time, so he found the director to thank him in person.
The director said to Mr. Luo: In my medical career, I have also seen many patients who treat AIDS as a skin disease, so I have also summed up some experience, it is for this reason that I can find out the abnormalities in your body in time and ask you to do relevant examinations.
At the same time, the director added: If there are these three changes in the body, then you must pay attention to it, do HIV-related tests in time, eliminate the danger, and ensure your health!
Herpes zoster, herpes zoster is a relatively common skin disease, at this time there will be blisters in the affected area, and even pain in the affected area, this is because of the impact of the herpes virus invading the body, and it is also a manifestation of low resistance, smart readers may have found this key word - low resistance, so for AIDS patients, because of impaired resistance, there will often be herpes zoster, and it will also follow the symptoms of fatigue and fever, so if there are the above symptoms, you need to be cautious!
Sore throat, low-grade fever, cold symptoms, these are the symptoms of acute infection of AIDS, if there are high-risk sexual behaviors, and other exposure risks such as blood exchange, then the appearance of these symptoms is a warning light, telling people that you may have been infected with AIDS, at this time taking blocking drugs can effectively block the reproduction of HIV. However, due to the low amount of HIV in body fluids at this time, the detection reagent may not be able to detect the corresponding disease, but don't worry, with the development of science and technology, the window period is getting shorter and shorter.
Abnormal skin mass, because HIV will directly accumulate T lymphocytes, so it will affect the various lymph nodes in the body, when a large number of lymphocytes die and accumulate in the lymph nodes, the lymph nodes will swell, so AIDS patients will always have some lumps that are not easy to resolve.
In addition, the dense white membrane covering the mouth is also one of the symptoms of AIDS, and the doctor determined that Mr. Zhou had AIDS through this symptom. However, these means are all auxiliary, and the most fundamental thing is to do a good job of protection and avoid high-risk behaviors!