Is AIDS really that scary?

Many people stay away from people with AIDS, so today we will talk about HIV.

Generally speaking, the blood, semen, vaginal secretions, breast milk, and wound exudate of HIV-infected people and patients contain a large amount of HIV, so you can be infected through unprotected contact with these bodily fluids of infected people or patients.

What are the ways of transmission of HIV?

1、Sexual transmission.

2、Blood transmission.

3、Vertical transmission from mother to child.

So there are factors that influence the transmission of HIV. Yes, the probability of HIV transmission is mainly related to the amount of virus that the human body is exposed to, the way the virus enters the organism, etc.

There are such ways of blood transmission: 1. Transfusion of blood or blood products: If there is HIV in the blood, the person who imports it may be infected. 2. Transplantation of organs and tissues of AIDS patients. 3. Transmission by injection route through needles contaminated with HIV. 4. Medical source infection: Mainly refers to unclean or incomplete sterilization of medical equipment (such as dialysis, invasive treatment and dental drill), etc., which causes the recipient of The infection is caused by the person receiving medical services.

So is mother-to-child transmission hereditary? Of course not. There are three possibilities for mother-to-child transmission. 1. HIV-positive mothers, whose fetuses may come into contact with maternal blood through many different routes during pregnancy, such as bleeding from placental damage caused by external impact, may lead to the occurrence of intrauterine infection. 2. During delivery, HIV-infected mothers have a large amount of HIV in their cervical and vaginal secretions, so the baby is likely to be unprotected Direct contact with the mucous membrane of the birth canal or infected blood and become infected. 3. Infection of the baby through breastfeeding after delivery.

So women with AIDS cannot have healthy babies? Of course not absolutely.

2. Nowadays, for pregnant women who receive standardized antiretroviral treatment, have no clinical symptoms of AIDS or are already in labor, they are recommended to deliver on their own.

3. Newborns should be given antiretroviral drugs immediately after delivery until 42 days after birth.

4. HIV-positive mothers should avoid breastfeeding and switch to artificial feeding, i.e. the baby cannot take the mother's milk and is fed formula instead.

But is it really not contagious in daily life?