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jhony lee |
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AIDS. The very sound of the word scares some, and makes other cringe. How did we let it get so far? There is no cure for very few diseases, and aids is one of them. Yet we still have unprotected sex, and we still share dirty needles. Come on! Granted, HIV/AIDS will never be a thing of the past, but we can do better in making the condition less common.
Here is the list of preventable HIV/AIDS transmissions:
- Penetrative oral, vaginal, or anal sex (Unprotected)
- Blood transfusion
- In health care settings
- Drug injection
So if these ways are all preventable, why is HIV/AIDS still such a major problem?
The human race needs to wise up, stop sharing needles, screen blood transfusions, and USE CONDOMS. Let's beat AIDS before it beats us.
Symptoms
Symptoms will only occur if HIV is developed into AIDS and the symptoms of AIDS are a result of series of infections called opportunistic infections that do not normally develop in humans with healthy immune.
Why they are called opportunistic infections? Because they do not happen to people with healthy immune. But since AIDS destroys the immune system, they will occur in infected people.
What are common symptoms with AIDS infected people?
They are fevers, sweats, weakness, weight loss, and a series of "rare" infections and cancers.
I will probably discuss these infections later in detail. But I just wanted to make it clear to you about the difference between AIDS and HIV, and when exactly symptoms occur.
In a later stage, aids cause rare cancers, which normally won't affect a healthy immune. Eventually, the patient dies after one of these opportunistic infections.
Causes
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome is known as AIDS in the short form. AIDS is in fact the collection of certain symptoms and infections in the human organism which permanently leads to the damage of the human immune system. AIDS is in other ways considered as the body’s defence system which hampers the normal functioning of the body organs to a great extent. Symptoms of AIDS are not visible at the early stage. But at least after a period of 3 to 6 weeks the symptoms of AIDS can be noticed through certain flu like sickness. Besides these, symptoms like headache, nausea, fever, fatigue, diarrhea, etc. are also considered as other AIDS symptoms. But it can be mentioned out here though these symptoms occur in an AIDS patient; it lasts for only a temporary period of time after which it disappears. Sometimes acute AIDS symptoms also cannot be considered as the symptoms of AIDS, as they may also be found to be very much common to other forms of diseases.
Prevent It
AIDS is a very serious disease because once you are detected to be an AIDS patient, you are susceptible to each and every disease be it as small and mild as common cold. This is so because even if you have such a harmless illness, your body might not be able to fight with it.
Our human body is so 'programmed' or 'trained' that any infection or unwanted cells cause the production of 'anti-bodies' in our body. They are precisely the security system of the human body. HIV prevents such protection.
The HIV virus which leads to AIDS reduces the ability of our body to fight diseases to zero. This implies, if this virus causes the disease AIDS, then the body looses the capability to fight any disease, no matter how small-an-illness it might be. Sometimes, such small illnesses can also attribute to the persons death.
Prevention is better than cure, especially if there is NO cure!!
1. Have safe sex. HIV is transmitted through exchange of body fluid. It is best to use condoms.
2. Always use a fresh disposable syringe for injective purposes. Never use a used one, even if it is your friends'.
3. When anyone needs blood transfusion, make sure the blood you use is government approved and processed.
4. be careful while dealing with body fluids like blood. Any intake of such in one's body from an HIV infected person is dangerous.
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