Post Date November, 16 2024
There is a festival called World AIDS Day, which falls on December 1 every year. It is to promote and prevent AIDS. AIDS is caused by HIV, and many people do not understand it, as long as they know that it is a very harmful infectious disease. Because the understanding of AIDS is not comprehensive, there are many misunderstandings, such as discrimination against AIDS patients. Attention to these misunderstandings may be related to the whole human race.
What common mistakes should be avoided in the prevention and treatment of AIDS?
1. Myth 1: Cannot live with AIDS patients
AIDS patients are high-risk groups. They are required to leave the society and cannot be allowed to have daily contact with normal people. Even if the contact must be kept at a certain distance, if there is such a situation as hugging and shaking hands with them, normal people will get sick. This is all wrong. In fact, breathing the same air as HIV positive patients, sharing toilets, drinking water dispensers, fitness equipment, etc., will not cause illness. There are only three ways to spread AIDS: sexual transmission, blood transmission, mother to child transmission.
2. Myth 2: High risk exposure must lead to AIDS
Exposure to high-risk individuals who do not use condoms and occupational exposure to doctors can also be blocked. They should seek medical attention immediately after high-risk behavior and undergo regular testing. The earlier you take blockers, the more likely it is that they will not cause infection.
3. Myth 3: Self judgment of AIDS infection
When the body has the same symptoms as AIDS patients, do not judge yourself to be infected with AIDS. The only correct and reliable way is to go to the hospital or CDC for professional testing.
4. Myth 4: Infected with HIV virus that cannot be detected
AIDS phobia, commonly known as phobia, is suspicious of the test results, and always believes that the test is not accurate or the existing reagents can not detect their own virus, so there is no need to panic. The test results of the existing medical conditions are accurate enough.
5. Myth 5: Unable to cure, giving up treatment
There are more and more drugs to treat AIDS, the treatment effect is getting better and better, and the side effects are getting smaller and smaller. Choose suitable drugs based on different patients to achieve the best therapeutic effect. As long as early detection and early treatment, AIDS infected people can also live like normal people; As long as we persist in treatment, the patient's life expectancy is close to that of the average person, so we must not give up treatment.
