[헬스S] AIDS is promiscuous?… What is wrong common sense?
Reporter Youngchan Choi2022.11.30 06:22
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Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) is a disease caused by a weakened immune system caused by infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). /Photo = Image Today AD
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Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS · AIDS) is often viewed as a promiscuous disease. AIDS is more common in homosexuals.
However, AIDS is a disease caused by infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which destroys certain immune cells in the body and lowers immunity. In other words, AIDS patients are some of the HIV-infected patients, and it means that people with extremely low immunity due to HIV infection.
Two to six weeks following being infected with HIV, you may have a fever, sore throat, or body aches. In severe cases, headache, skin rash, vomiting, joint pain, etc. appear, which is called acute HIV syndrome. Looking at the symptoms alone, it is difficult to distinguish them from other viral infections. Only a blood test can confirm HIV infection.
After 6 weeks of infection, there is an asymptomatic incubation period in which no specific symptoms appear for up to 7 years. During this period, the body’s immune cells are still destroyed by HIV. When immunity drops below a certain level, the incidence of certain infectious diseases such as tuberculosis, shingles, and cytomegalovirus increases. This period is called AIDS.
HIV can also be treated with antiviral treatment. However, it is known that although it can inhibit the proliferation of the virus in the blood, it is impossible to remove the HIV virus.
Professor Choi Gyun of the Infectious Disease Department at Seoul National University Hospital said, “According to statistics from the early 2000s, if people with HIV take medication well, their prognosis improved to the point where life expectancy is similar to that of people without HIV infection. “It has turned into a chronic disease that can be controlled with medication to prevent complications, such as diabetes or high blood pressure,” he said.
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