AIDS is a serious disease that poses a threat to health and human life. HIV is caused by a type of virus that affects the immune system in the human body and makes it weak and unable to resist bacteria, microbes, bacteria and fungi, which in turn attack and make it vulnerable to a group of Serious diseases, which are often difficult to cure or even alleviate symptoms, and remarkable in this serious disease that it affects the body gradually and very slow, so the people living with this disease live a normal life like any other person does not show symptoms of the disease After a period may extend for years, starting with the infected stage of the disease after the onset of symptoms due to the destruction of the virus to the immune system and make the body easy prey to diseases.
Methods of transmission of disease
- Sexual contact is the result of contact from an infected person to a healthy person without taking precautions such as using a condom or female condom that restricts the transmission of the disease. Here are many calls to urge young men and women not to have sex outside of married life.
- Sometimes the infection occurs at the dentist’s office as a result of the contamination of the equipment used by the virus from a person who is infected and not sterilized well, and through the process of donating contaminated blood from an infected person to a healthy person.
- The occurrence of negligence in some clinics and medical hospitals and the reuse of needles, which are sometimes contaminated with the virus, and spread among drug users as a result of the exchange of injection between them.
- Contact with infected blood, and the injury occurs due to the presence of skin injury is not metamorphosis.
- Children are vulnerable to HIV infection, especially newborns, through breastfeeding from a mother infected with HIV, and through pregnancy and childbirth.
The disease is not transmitted by:
- Care for and touch the patient’s right person, such as sitting at the dining table together, kissing him and using the same bathroom, but taking maximum precautions when he touches his blood.
- AIDS is also not transmitted through insects such as mosquitoes.
Stages of AIDS
The onset of the disease depends mainly on the extent of the immune system, and the symptoms of the disease appear in the person in the period of two to ten years, because it is a slow disease progress as already mentioned.
- Stage 1: the stage of attacking the virus to the body but the immune system is not affected, also called unsatisfactory stage and the person is infected with the disease and not sick, and the person seems normal, the stage of non-emergence of symptoms, and at this stage the infected person to transmit the virus to a healthy person, and through Blood tests Doctors can diagnose the disease, but if the tests during the first three months of infection can not diagnose the disease called the stage Alchabikip, and the patient to re-examination to confirm after the expiration of the first three months, the result is negative is not infected, but in the case of positive it is infected Leros.
- Stage II: At this stage, the immune system has already begun to be affected. The blood test is positive. The person is already sick because the virus attacks the immune system and the body is exposed to a range of diseases. At this stage, a variety of symptoms, such as lymphatic bloating and diarrhea Loss of weight, cough, shortness of breath and high temperature, and the patient at this stage becomes vulnerable to opportunistic diseases and frequently the most important tuberculosis serious, and the patient at this stage also able to transmit the disease to a healthy person.
- Stage III: At this stage, the appearance of serious symptoms due to the destruction of the immune system in full, and the body is very exhausted and weak because of repeated infection of infectious diseases and very easily because of resistance, and symptoms at this stage above the temperature above 38 degrees and chronic diarrhea and severe headaches and fatigue and exhaustion Severe weight loss and lymphatic glands. At this stage, the body is infected with certain types of cancers, especially lymphoma. The result of the examination is positive and the patient is able to transmit the infection.