The AIDS virus is the smallest microorganism that can only be discerned using a powerful microscope. In the human body, he lives inside the cells of the immune system and ultimately destroys them. After the death of immune cells, the virus exits freely into the intercellular space, from where it again enters the immune cells where the pathological process occurs in a similar way. As a result of constant circulation in the body, the pathogen is able to completely destroy the human defense system. This explains the second name of the disease - acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.
The AIDS virus poses a huge danger, which lies in the defeat of cells - T-helpers, which are required to "include" our immune defense. One of the mechanisms of exposure to the virus is the intense lysis of T-helpers, which occurs when HIV is released from lymphocytes in a massive way. At the same time, the integrity of the cell membranes does not have time to fully recover, as a result of which T-helpers die. As a result, deep violations of the human immune system develop .
Fortunately, the AIDS virus is transmitted from one person to another less frequently than other pathogens, and only when certain conditions occur. Infection is possible only if infected blood or other body fluids enter the body of a healthy person. To avoid infection, it is enough to observe basic safety measures, hygiene and protect yourself during accidental sexual intercourse. For employees of medical institutions, special safety measures are provided that exclude infection by contact with sick people or biomaterial for laboratory diagnostics.
Today, there are a large number of special tests and tests that determine whether there is an AIDS virus in human blood. It’s quite difficult to predict exactly what will happen to a person who has HIV, since each person has a different effect on him.
Being sick with AIDS and having HIV in your body is far from the same thing. Many people who have been infected with HIV can live normal lives for many years. However, there is a great risk that over time they may have one or even several complications that can lead to death. It is in such cases, the doctor can diagnose AIDS. Scientists have not yet fully established whether HIV always leads to the development of AIDS or not.
Unfortunately, a cure that would help cure people infected with the virus has not yet been found. Help to such people consists in correcting the activity of the immune system, using fortifying agents and prescribing symptomatic therapy. These patients have another significant problem.
As a rule, people, having learned that they have the AIDS virus, have a great need to share their feelings with someone, but the foundations of our society, unfortunately, cannot always guarantee mutual understanding. In this case, a person is afraid not only of illness, but of loneliness, which can follow if others know about it. Recently, for such purposes, there are telephone numbers of moral support, where you can call and share your feelings at any time.
HIV and AIDS symptoms are very diverse, and they can not always be interpreted in favor of this insidious disease. If you find incomprehensible weakness, fatigue, with frequent colds, a person should be examined in a timely manner in a specialized consultative center, which is in every major city. In such institutions, you can undergo the necessary examination and get recommendations. Moreover, mutual assistance programs and support groups operate in such centers.
Symptoms may be so mild that a person does not attach importance to them. In this regard, given the tendency to the spread of this disease, in many medical institutions laboratory diagnostics are performed for all patients, without exception.