Health Term II : All About AIDS

Today I write a bit : All About AIDS. Just crossed my mind once my old friend was passed away, he was dead and judge as the " The Cursed Disease " refer to his HIV/AIDS per - rumour ( I don't know exactly what the dead cause) . He got that disease because he was a drug user, using drug with needle. In here I would just re-write the articles which flying around in books and internet and make this simple by explaining in global views only and to enrich my site in health section. I acknowledge myself by writing this and share it to the universe. Hope it will useful for anyone.

What is AIDS 

AIDS is abbreviation from Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, namely loss of the immune body due to HIV infection.

What is HIV

HIV is abbreviation from Human Immunodeficiency Virus. So, HIV is the virus which cause AIDS. HIV is 'retro viruses' just lately days in past 30 years this virus came up into the surface of the world and made the world also curious with the way of HIV's movements. Previously this HIV was called HTLV or LAV, which officially in 1986 the name changed into HIV.

This virus attacks the T4 cells in the body which in charge of organizing the body defense's mechanism. Not all people who infected HIV will be positive get AIDS, only 1% - 5% who ended up with AIDS. But if someone already has been positive diagnosed by AIDS, will not be able to escape from the death angel in sooner time-being. 

Who Can Get Easily Affected By HIV/AIDS

People with AIDS are mostly found in people with homosexual, bisexual, drug users who injected by contaminated syringes. Sometimes the recipients of blood donors may also be affected by AIDS for receiving contaminated blood with virus in it. 

AIDS Transmission

The principal ways of AIDS transmission are :

• Intercourse ( men's & women's genital, anal and mouth ) also Heterosexual relations with patients or carriers of the HIV virus
• Ties blood to blood ( bloods transfusion or sharing needles )
• From mother to fetus

Other routes of AIDS transmission which rarely exposed are :

• Wounds caused of contaminated needles
• Contaminated kidney recipients
• Recipients of tainted sperm donation

Common Mistake of Thoughts that AIDS can be Transmitted are :

" Transmission of the virus doesn't occur through touching, holding, breathing the same air,

use a plate of glass of the patient "

Diagnose & Symptoms

Diagnose by doing blood tests, in aim to find anti bodies to HIV can be done to determine whether a person suffering from this virus.

The incubation stage which found through the result of blood tests can be treated with anti - biotic medicines, anti-cancer, anti-virus, and radiation. Regrettably, can be dead or still living with the HIV virus which still brought the subject and in time being can be suddenly rise up and attack the body. At this stage the patient won't feel any symptoms. 

Should realizing that to evidence in determination the presence or the absence of HIV is more difficult and complicated. Therefore, it is highly advise for those people who are at high - risk ( such as homosexual, prostitutes, drug addicts who use injections ) when the result is negative, the examination of HIV must be repeated again after 6 months.

For those who tested positive for AIDS in advanced stages can be determined through further investigation by doctors of antibodies to HIV, then doing paper suction Western, and follow-up observation typical infection or cancer.

HIV Infections

• Doctors' examination of patients with HIV but no symptoms, will usually reveal abnormality such as swelling of the lymph nodes.
• For more severe infection, patient experience skin disorder; face skin inflammation 
• For more severe infections than those mentioned above, patients experience severe weight loss, diarrhea, fever, and thrush in mouth area ( candidiasis )
• Another follow up infections are more severe herpes simplex, tuberculosis, shingles, brain damage or mental deterioration
• Severe worst infections are stricken with cancer ( usually sarcoma caposi ), the brain lymphoma, some infections such as pneumonia pneumokista, cytomegalovirus, toxoplasmosis, etc

Patients usually died due to advanced infections mentioned above.

Treatment & Medication

Indeed the symptoms can be treated with antibiotics or radiation., but so far still have not found yet an effective vaccines or drugs to fight AIDS.

Therefore, the most effective way to fight AIDS is PREVENTION. By using rubber condoms in sex; specially with the partner who is assumed to hit HIV, using disposable syringes, and avoid dangerous sexual activity.

Expectations in Interferon

What is Interferon

Interferon is the name of group of proteins which produced by cells in response to viral infection and other stimuli.

What The useful of Interferon

Interferon serves to inhibit the breeding of viruses and increases the activity of killer cells - specific lymphocytes that are part of the immune system.

Interferon Hopes As Medicine

Interferon has been used as a medicine used to treat hairy cells leukemia types.

Interferon could also be expected to cope various cancers, such as sarcoma sarcoma Kaposi ( skin cancer in the suffering of AIDS infection ). Interferon also offers hope in attempt to overcome a dangerous viral infection which can disturb the immune system in the body such as AIDS.

The Way in Producing Interferon 

Interferon produced by human cells are mixed breeding with a particular virus or made synthetically  in the laboratory from a particular nucleic acid.

Hopefully in near future, the doctors experts, pharmaceuticals will be able to sort-out the effective medicine and treatment. 

Let's hope and pray and do the best.