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How long is the survival time of AIDS patients? What are the symptoms of patients with advanced AIDS
Post Date November, 17 2024
The natural history of AIDS can be divided into acute infection period, asymptomatic period and AIDS period. Acute infection usually occurs about 1-2 weeks after exposure to AIDS virus, and symptoms in the acute phase last about 2-4 weeks; After acute AIDS infection, most people have a long asymptomatic period, but each individual has a very different length.
How long can I live with AIDS?
The natural history of AIDS is divided into acute infection period, asymptomatic period and AIDS period. Acute infection usually occurs about 1~2 weeks after exposure to AIDS virus. Most of the acute AIDS infections whose symptoms last about 2~4 weeks in the acute phase are long-term, but everyone has a very different length of asymptomatic period. Many patients have asymptomatic period from AIDS - 1 infection to clinical symptoms or further development to AIDS, which is about 8~10 years. About 5% of AIDS - 1 infected people have no clinical symptoms, Moreover, it can maintain a normal immune state for more than 12 years, and now the longest time to reach more than 17 years is the survival time without any treatment after getting AIDS.
Immune function disappears when diagnosed in the late stage
Experts pointed out that at present, the biggest problem faced by AIDS diagnosis and treatment in China is that AIDS infected people cannot be detected early. These invisible infected people are diagnosed only when they enter the end of AIDS. At this time, the number of CD4+T lymphocytes, an important immune cell in the body, has dropped to dozens or several in microliters of blood (the normal value is 750 ± 250/microliters)
Experts say that the most effective way to control the source of infection in the absence of a vaccine is to treat the infected person, and starting antiviral therapy ("cocktail" therapy) at the appropriate time can extend the patient's lifespan by more than 30 years.
How long can I live with AIDS? If infected individuals can be detected and actively treated early, extending their survival time by more than 30 years is not a dream.
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