There is a disease that has become a symbol of filth at some point because it only occurs in sexual contact, and it is AIDS that we will learn today. Many people think AIDS is an incurable disease, but it can be treated with a simple method of taking antiviral drugs every day. However, it is said that there are many cases where people are busy hiding because of other people’s unfriendly eyes, so it can cause various health problems. Today, many people around the world know about it, but they don’t know the cause and symptoms. Let’s look at everything about AIDS.
Infectious disease: AIDS
AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency disease) is a representative infectious disease spread by body fluids and blood, and HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) is the most fundamental cause of this disease. It is known that when infected with the virus, immune cells in our body are destroyed and our immune balance is broken, resulting in various infectious diseases and tumors, which are likely to eventually lead to death. Before the 1990s, when there was no cure, many people lost their lives due to AIDS symptoms, but since the treatment was introduced, the prognosis for the HIV patient has improved rapidly. So, how do HIV infections get infected? Learn about the causes of AIDS.
Causes of AIDS
In many people’s stereotypes, the only cause of AIDS is promiscuous sex or sexual contact. In other words, most people think that they are infected only by sex and contact. Of course, it’s not wrong, but the cause of AIDS is. In addition, medical personnel are often exposed in this case as there are joint use of needles, needle-stabbing accidents, transmission from mother to newborn, and transmission through blood transfusions or blood products. However, the main transmission route in Korea is called sexual contact.
Early symptoms of AIDS
First of all, AIDS symptoms are divided into three stages, and after the acute onset in the early stages of infection, it enters the incubation period and later appears to be an infection caused by a decrease in immunity. Let’s start with acute HIV syndrome.
(1) Early days
This occurs three to six weeks after the virus is infected, and early AIDS symptoms include sore throat, fever, enlarged lymph glands, headache, joint pain, vomiting and nausea, muscle pain, which leads to meningitis, encephalitis, and various pathological conditions in muscle tissue.
(2) an asymptomatic incubation period
After the acute syndrome period discussed earlier, the asymptomatic incubation period lasts for about 10 years, when there are no significant symptoms that can be suspected of infection, but the virus steadily destroys the body’s immune cells, so the immunity gradually decreases over time.
(3) Opportunity infection
If immunity decreases during a long incubation period, symptoms from opportunistic infections, a variety of infectious diseases that do not occur easily in healthy people, appear. Infectious diseases that appear weak in the general public can also be somewhat serious in AIDS patients, and when immunity is deficient, malignant tumors develop rapidly, which eventually lead to death. There are no symptoms for 10 years like this, but the immune system continues to decline. I need to take care of it so that it doesn’t deteriorate. So, how can we solve the initial symptoms of AIDS that have already been infected? Finally, let’s look at the cure.
Treatment for AIDS symptoms?
First, AIDS symptoms are treated as a kind of antiviral drug that prevents HIV from proliferating, which degrades immune function, and helps prevent the most important immunity from falling. In other words, it plays a role in helping the infected person live a healthy life again, which can start treatment by taking a treatment according to a doctor’s prescription.