AIDS can live how long?

A healthy people from infection with HIV (HIV) to death, is generally divided into three phases, the first stage, known as HIV acute infection period, infection, a minority of infected persons will appear flu-like symptoms such as fever, sore throat, rash, swollen lymph nodes and so on, within 2-3 weeks, these symptoms will naturally disappear.

Then, infected persons entering a second phase, which is called asymptomatic phase, about the whole process from infection to death for 80% of the time, when the patients were known HIV carriers, the surface most of the infected is healthy, with no difference between normal, but the body's immune system is working with the virus the invisible struggle.

HIV every day, destroying a large number of immune cells, through the acceleration of bone marrow to generate new cells to be compensated, but the additional speed of the new cells are always can not keep up the speed of cell loss. In the normal human body, per cubic millimeter of blood, about 800-1000 of immune cells, while the infection inside the body, per cubic millimeter of blood immune cells Zeyi annual declining rate of 50-70 months, when the immune cells to reduce to the one cubic millimeter of blood, only 200 or so when the rate of decline will accelerate. Asymptomatic infected persons sustained period of time may be longer or shorter, as little as two years, the number of up to 20 years, its length is closely related with the infection route, under normal circumstances, blood infection (mainly for illegal blood collection and sharing of syringes ) for 4-5 years, 11-13 years of sexual infections generally, if an asymptomatic infected person can reach 13 years, it can be called a long-term survivors of the.

When the body's immune cells infected with HIV have been unable to compete when the marks into the final stage of HIV infection, said the symptomatic stage, when the infection were called AIDS (AIDS) patients, they are very vulnerable to other diseases, infection, some people would not normally pose a threat to the lives of the ordinary infectious diseases such as pneumonia, etc. Once the body would be beyond the control of AIDS, people usually die within 6 to 24 months.

Transmission of a Branch in Guangzhou city hospital for infectious diseases, said Dr. Cai Weiping, AIDS patients, there will be a variety of burst disorders, such as the contiguous skin, herpes, meningitis, cancer, tuberculosis, hepatitis and so on, a male weighing 100 kilograms could be reduced to seven 10 kilograms, deep-set eyes, hair loss, muscle atrophy, difficulty breathing, skin itching intolerable, or even dementia, memory loss, dying like a skeleton wrapped in skin.