12 questions to help you fully understand the fight against AIDS

REVIEW: HIV is a retrovirus, the virus particle size of only 100-140 nm, is this too-small, small micro-organisms, can make people suffering from infection on one kind of mortality is high, There is no cure for drugs and methods of serious infectious diseases.

HIV, is the English abbreviation "HIV". It is a retrovirus, the virus particle size of only 100-140 nm, is The small micro-organisms could not be small, can make people infected and suffering from a high fatality, there were no drugs to cure serious diseases and methods of AIDS, the name came from the United States, is an English abbreviation "AIDS" a homonym.

against AIDS, is the whole society, both government and its functions, or medical schools, hospitals, disease control department, and you, me, him, has the bounden duty as individual life, but should love life, from its start, start now. The more knowledge about AIDS, to grasp the better, more specific, the more normative behavior, the more cautious and more secure, then we leave on AIDS farther, on the chance of being infected with the less.

this paper, the 12 people most concerned about the issue, a brief answer, so that the reader "understand at a glance, a study will, one with the Spirit" and refused to AIDS virus in thousands of miles away.

What is AIDS

1, what is AIDS?

AIDS stands for "human acquired immune deficiency syndrome" (abbreviation AIDS), by the human immunodeficiency virus (abbreviation HIV) causes. collapse of the immune system is fully characterized, infectious disease with high fatality main pathogenic mechanism is to enable patients to play a coordinating role in the immune system of a cell (ie, CD4 cells) a significant decline in the number of clinical manifestations of body\'s ability to resist disease gradually decreased, until it is completely lost, the last one or several of the patients died of opportunistic diseases.

infected with HIV have what symptoms appear

2, infected with HIV have what symptoms appear?

from infected HIV to AIDS, an average of about 10 years, during which there may be four stages:

acute infection of HIV infection into the body, 3-6 weeks after the flu-like or infectious mononucleosis-like acute infection syndrome symptoms such as fever, headache, body aches, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and joint pain and skin rash.

asymptomatic infection HIV antibody-positive blood test, but no clinical symptoms or signs, such as like normal. The period last 2-10 years, 2-5 years, short, long up to 20 years, although this period no clinical symptoms, but contagious.

symptoms of infection (also known as phase-related syndrome) may have swollen lymph nodes large, fever, diarrhea, or neurological disease, weight loss.

suffering from AIDS, the patient what will happen

3, suffering from AIDS, the patient what will happen?

patients may be prolonged fever, as well as chronic diarrhea, a every day, weight loss, lethargy, it is susceptible to various diseases, such as Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia insects, oral candidiasis, histoplasmosis infection, toxoplasmosis and cryptosporidiosis, Cryptococcus neoformans meningitis or pneumonia, recurrent herpes virus infections; and a nervous system disease and Kaposi\'s sarcoma, lymphoma, middle-aged patient with dementia.

period of AIDS, especially late in vivo CD4 cell count of less than 2 * 108 / L , a high viral load in peripheral blood. patients died of cancer and various infectious pathogens.

HIV infection and AIDS patients have not the same as what

4, HIV infection and AIDS patients what is the difference?

infection the body is infected with HIV, but no clinical manifestations, or that there are signs and symptoms, diagnostic criteria according to the Ministry of Health is not enough to diagnosis of AIDS. these people who have contagious health.

to a certain extent when the quantitative qualitative change, the symptoms and signs in accordance with the Ministry of Health diagnostic criteria enough to be diagnosed as AIDS, AIDS has become of these people the body\'s reaction is more obvious.

• Previous: Vitamin D can relieve dysmenorrhea eat the yolk is a good choice to add dimension D
• Next: GE Healthcare to bring new technology unveiled 2011RSNA RSNA Annual Meeting