Why don't doctors dare to draw such a conclusion?
Major premise: patients have the confidence to live! We should actively cooperate with drug treatment! Patients should be very aware of their current physical condition! For example, it is necessary to know the stage of HIV infection accurately, because different treatment schemes are adopted in different periods.
At present, HIV infection can be divided into three periods.
1) Acute infection period: it usually appears 2-6 weeks after infection, which is similar to the symptoms of a cold and can heal itself quickly.
Characteristics of acute infection period: HIV virus antigen can be detected, but due to the short time, the body has not yet produced anti-HIV antibodies.
2) incubation period: this period is also called asymptomatic infection period. There is already HIV virus in the body, which can be called HIV carrier. But it's not time to get sick. The incubation period varies from one year to 15 years, even without illness.
3) Onset: It is quite dangerous at this time, because HIV virus has begun to destroy the immune system. When the immune system is destroyed to the point that it cannot maintain the minimum anti-HIV ability, it can really be called AIDS patients.
Most AIDS patients died not from HIV itself, but from complications after the immune system was destroyed. For example, when the wind blows, the cold virus enters the human body and begins to invade the nose, throat and lungs. At this time, the body has no immune attack ability and can only let it multiply and spread, and may eventually die of a small cold.
During the period of HIV infection, treatment drugs are free. Although you don't need to take medicine at this stage, you must always check your body. In fact, it is to check whether the immune system is still normal. If the CD4+T cell content drops below the threshold, first-line anti-HIV drugs must be taken immediately to inhibit virus replication. If left untreated at this time, the damage to the immune system will be irreversible, and it is likely to die of complications soon during the onset.
At present, when the CD4+T cell content of HIV-infected people in China drops below 500, they can go to designated hospitals for free antiviral treatment. These antiviral drugs include zidovudine, lamivudine, dehydroglucoside, zalcitabine, stavudine and abacavir.
We must commend the government of China for this work! This has benefited thousands of people infected with HIV. The state gives free treatment, what are you worried about?
There is basically no problem of drug resistance. Some friends infected with HIV must have heard that drugs will produce drug resistance, and they will be worried about the effect.
Here, I want to tell you that the therapeutic effect of these drugs provided by the government of China is really good. These drugs are also used by HIV-infected people abroad. Epidemiological survey data show that there is no significant difference in life expectancy between HIV-infected people who insist on treatment and normal people. Moreover, HIV-infected people who insist on taking drugs on time and point by point every day will basically not develop drug resistance.
After reading the answer of "Dr. Noh's medicine is hopeless", you should be able to agree that HIV-infected people can live to their destiny takes a hand's conclusion, right?
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