Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome or AIDS is an abbreviated set of symptoms and infections resulting from the destruction of the human immune system caused by HIV infection or AIDS Human Immunodeficiency Virus .Virus special attacks white blood cells called T-lymphocytes.
HIV AIDS
HIV is the virus that weakens the immunity in the human body. People affected by this virus will be susceptible to opportunistic infections or tumors susceptible. Although existing coping can slow the spread of the virus, but the disease is not completely curable.
The first sign of HIV patients will usually have a fever for 3 to 6 weeks depending on the immune system. Once conditions improved HIV-infected people will remain healthy in a few years and gradually decreases because their immune recurrent fever attacks.
WHO stage system infection
In 1990, the World Health Organization (WHO) classifies various infections and AIDS conditions by introducing a system of stages for patients infected with HIV-1. The system is updated in Septembertahun 2005. Most of these conditions are opportunistic infections that can easily be handled in healthy people.
1. Stage I: HIV infection is asymptomatic and not categorized as AIDS
2. Stage II: includes minor mucocutaneous manifestations and inflammation of the upper respiratory tract recurrent
3. Stage III: including chronic diarrhea that can not be explained for more than a month, severe bacterial infections, and tuberculosis.
4. Stage IV: includes toxoplasmosis of the brain, candidiasis of the esophagus, trachea, bronchi or lungs and Kaposi's sarcoma. All these diseases are indicators of AIDS.
Before a person can be said to be affected by HIV / AIDS. He will experience the following symptoms:
1. Patients will experience prolonged high fever
2. Patients will experience shortness of breath, coughing, chest pain and fever, he will be loss of appetite, nausea, and vomiting
3. Chronic diarrhea that can not be explained in HIV infection can occur due to various causes; among others, bacterial and parasitic infections are common (such as Salmonella, Shigella, Listeria, Campylobacter, and Escherichia coli), and opportunistic infections are not common and viruses (such as cryptosporidiosis, microsporidiosis, Mycobacterium avium complex, and cytomegalovirus (CMV), which is the cause colitis).
4. Cough berekepanjangan
5. Esophagitis is an inflammation of the gullet (esophagus), which is the path of food from the mouth to the stomach. In HIV-infected individuals, this disease occurs due to fungal infection (jamurkandidiasis) or viral (herpes simplex-1 or cytomegalovirus). It also can be caused by mycobacteria, although rare cases
6. Swollen lymph nodes throughout the body (below the ears, neck, armpits, and groin)
7. Headache
8. Difficulty concentrating
9. Response slowing limbs
10. Often the pain and tingling in the hands and feet
11. Experiencing low blood pressure
12. There was an attack of chickenpox and smallpox virus fire
13. hair skin tissue infections
14. Dry skin with patches.
HIV-AIDS adslah:
1. Sex
2. Blood Transfusion
3. Use of the patient used needles (acupuncture, tattoo needles, piercing fragrant).
4. Between mother and baby during pregnancy, birth and lactation.
HIV-AIDS drugs:
1. NRTIs (nucleoside or nucleotide reverse transcriptase inhibitors)
2. NNRTI (non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors)
3. PI (protease inhibitors) Fusion Inhibitors
How to prevent HIV AIDS is with;
1. Avoid free sex
2. Do not keep changing sexual partners
3. Use a condom, especially for high-risk groups should not be a blood donor
4. A mother who was diagnosed HIV positive should not be pregnant.
5. The use of disposable syringes should
6. Stay away from drugs.
