AIDS: most ferocious sexually transmitted disease
In a modern society, the idea of free sexual relationships is wrong understood. The society allows us to have almost all kinds of relationships, and to interfere with all kind of people. Because we are different, our way of life is different too, and so is our health. One of the biggest enemy of our sexual health is the sexual transmitted disease (STD)- illness spreads through unprotected sexual relationships.
There are many ways to avoid the STD. Most sexually transmitted diseases can be avoided by using protection measures, as condom- a sheath that gather the sperm in time of climaxes. Another way to protect is by decreasing the number of sexual partners- this way the risk of infection is getting lower. But, if the illness is set in, is good to know that many STD can be cured if they are treated in their first stage.
The most common STD are:
- -AIDS
- -Gonorrhoea
- -Trichomoniasis
- -Chlamydia
- -Genital Herpes
- -Syphilis
- -Human Papillomavirus
- -Chancroid
- -Crabs
- -Molluscum Contagiosum
- -Hepatitis (a, b, c, d, e)
- -Scabies
AIDS:
Is the most dangerous STD, because of its lethal effect. It is caused by the “human immunodeficiency virus”- HIV, that attacks the living cells of the body for to multiply itself. Most affected cells are that ones that compose the immune system and the white blood cells. This means that the body is becoming more sensitive and inclined to illness. A person that carries HIV can even die from diseases that are harmless to the other people. It affects all kind of people, but is more commonly among young couples.
It is transmitted from sexual relationships, using infected needles or contact with infected blood, sperm, vaginal secretions, mother’s milk.
AIDS appears when the immune system has no more capacity to recognize and react to the attacks of usually infections. It is manifesting in 2 ways:
- -a “dumb” infection with no symptoms- but the virus can be transmitted and infect other people
- -a short flu (fever, fatigue, swollen nodes, diarrhoea, night sweats), followed by a serious weigh-loss, bronchial and skin infection, appearance of another illnesses as cancer or dementia, and, in advanced stages it can become so serious that the patient finally dies. After six weeks from the infection, the antibodies produced by the white blood cells against the virus can be measured in the blood- if the result is HIV-positive the infection is active in the body and the virus can destroy new blood cells, while it is constantly being produced. Without treatment, AIDS will develop in the body after almost ten years from the initial infection.
Anyone can be infected, but there are some categories more exposed to it:
- -people who don’t practice safe sexual relationships
- -homosexual and bisexual men
- -people who have many different partners
- -prostitute and clients
- -drug consumers
- -hospital workers
- -children with infected mother
- -people who have had many blood transfusions
If u have any doubt about your health, you should immediately start the tests, and contact a doctor as soon as possible. There is no cure for HIV and AIDS, but there are efficient treatments that delay infection spreading.
There are also treatments that prevent it, but it has to be administrated in the next few hours from the moment of the moment of possible infection.
Taking into account the variants of the virus, there are several types of medication that can be used:
- -fusion inhibitors- Fuzeon
- -non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors- Sustiva, Viramune
- -nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors- Combivir, Emtriva, Videx
- -protease inhibitors- Invirase, Reyataz
- -non-cytomegalovirus- Vistide
- -antihistamines
The most common illness that affects the body after the HIV infections are:
- -tuberculosis
- -pneumonia
- -cancer, especially skin cancer
- -meningitis and encephalopathy, that usually cause dementia
- -finally- after years- death
The most important idea to know is that the ordinary interraction with infected people is not contagious, an it is not considered dangerous.