Sexual Health
The process of AIDS from infection to death? What are the ways to prevent AIDS in life
Post Date November, 16 2024
Many people have questions, infected with AIDS will die? How long can one usually live? In addition to sex accident, what other ways can I get AIDS? Let's take a look together.
How long can you live with AIDS
A healthy person is generally divided into three stages from HIV infection to death. The first stage is called the acute HIV infection stage. After infection, a small number of infected people will have symptoms similar to influenza, such as fever, pharyngitis, rash, Lymphadenopathy, etc. These symptoms will disappear naturally within 2-3 weeks.
Then, the infected people enter the second stage, which is called the Asymptomatic stage, accounting for about 80% of the time from infection to death. At this time, the patients are called HIV carriers. On the surface, most infected people are healthy, no different from normal people, but their immune system is fighting with the virus invisibly.
HIV destroys a large number of immune cells every day, while bone marrow compensates by accelerating the generation of new cells. However, the rate of replenishing new cells always lags behind the rate of cell loss. In normal individuals, there are approximately 800 to 1000 immune cells per cubic millimeter of blood, while in infected individuals, the number of immune cells per cubic millimeter of blood gradually decreases at a rate of 50-70 per year. When the number of immune cells decreases to only about 200 in one cubic millimeter of blood, the decline rate will accelerate. The duration of the Asymptomatic period of an infected person can be as long or as short as 2 years, or as long as 20 years. The length of the period is closely related to the route of infection. Generally, the duration of the blood infected person (mainly illegal blood collection and sharing syringes) is 4-5 years, and the duration of sexual intercourse infection is 11-13 years. If the Asymptomatic period of an infected person can reach 13 years, it can be called a long-term survivor.
When the immune cells in the infected person's body can no longer compete with HIV, it marks the final stage of HIV infection, known as the symptomatic period. At this time, infected people are called AIDS patients, who are very vulnerable to other diseases. Some common infectious diseases, such as pneumonia, which do not threaten human life at all, will be uncontrollable once they enter the body of AIDS, and people generally die within 6 to 24 months.
