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AIDS: Acquired Immuno Deficiency Sydrome

What is AIDS? 
 AIDS is the final stage of HIV disease (HIV: Human immunodeficiency virus), which causes severe damage to immune system. Common bacteria, yeast, parasites, and viruses that usually do not cause serious disease in people with healthy immune systems can cause fatal illnesses in people with AIDS. HIV virus is estimated to spread in people of age 25-44 years.

Transmssion
 80% of this virus spread through sexual contact; 18% spread by untidy blood transfusion to infected patients; and 2% of this virus spread through used and infected syringes, needles etc.A pregnant woman can transmit the virus to her fetus through their shared blood circulation, or a nursing mother can transmit it to her baby in her breast milk.

Symptoms
 People with AIDS have had their immune system damaged by HIV and are very susceptible to these opportunistic infections. Common symptoms are:

• Chills
• Fever
• Sweats (particularly at night)
• Swollen lymph glands
• Weakness
• Weight loss

Note: At first, infection with HIV may produce no symptoms. Some people, however, do experience flu-like symptoms with fever, rash, sore throat, and swollen lymph nodes, usually 2 - 4 weeks after contracting the virus. Some people with HIV infection stay symptom-free for years between the time when they are exposed to the virus and when they develop AIDS.

AIDS: as viewed by society
 People often discriminate against people suffering from HIV-AIDS because they perceive that the AIDS-infected person must have sexual contact with someone and got the disease. But that is not always true! Victims of AIDS get the disease because of the several factors as mentioned above.

AIDS is not spread by

• Casual contact such as hugging
• Mosquitoes
• Participation in sports
• Touching items that were touched by a person infected with the virus
  
  
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Think it over!

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You talk of wondrous things you see,

You say the sun shines bright;

I feel him warm, but how can he

Or make it day or night?

-C. Cibber

Do you know that our eyes can live even after our death? By donating our eyes after we die, can light the life of a blind person.

About 35 million people in the developing world are blind and most of them can be cured. About 4.5 million people with corneal blindness can be cured through corneal transplantation of donated eyes. Out of these 4.5 million, 60% are children below the age of 12. So, if we have got the gift of vision, why not pass it on to somebody who does not have it? What do we have to keep in mind when eyes have to be donated?

•   Eye donors can belong to any age group or sex. People who use spectacles, or those operated for cataract, can still donate the eyes. People who are diabetic, have hypertension, asthma patients and those without communicable diseases can also donate eyes.
• Eyes must be removed within 4-6 hours after death. Inform the nearest eye bank immediately.
• The eye bank team will remove the eyes at the home of the deceased or at a hospital.
• Eye removal takes only 10-1 minutes. It is a simple process and does not lead to any disfigurement.
• Persons who were infected with or died because of AIDS, Hepatitis B or C, rabies, acute leukaemia, tetanus, cholera, meningitis or encephalitis cannot donate eyes.

An eye bank collects, evaluates and distributes the donated yes. All eyes donated are evaluated using strict medical standards. Those donated eyes found unsuitable for transplantation are used for valuable research and medical education. The identities of both the donor and the recipients remain confidential.
One pair of eyes gives vision to TWO CORNEAL BLIND PEOPLE! Just think it over..

Article source: Science NCERT textbook for class X (Page No. 191)

First aid

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What is first aid?
First aid is the initial treatment given to any injury or a wound on the body, usually given by non-experts...

 

A first aid box should have the following things -

• Band aids of different sizes
• Antiseptic solution such as Dettol
• Rubbing alcohol also called Isopropyl alcohol
• A pair of pointed tweezers to remove splinters which are superficial and have one end protruding. Deeper splinters or foreign bodies should be removed by a physician.
• Cotton - preferably sterile
• Blunt ended scissors
• Sterile bandages
• Torch or flashlight
• Tourniquet
• Heating pad
• Ice pack
• ACE bandages - for sprains and achy joints
• Acetaminophen (paracetamol) for aches and pains and fever
• Throat lozenges
• Ibuprofen, which has an anti-inflammatory action, also for aches and pains and fever
• Aspirin tablets
• Anti-allergy pills such as diphenhydramine (Benadryl).

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So, always keep your first aid box ready with you at home for safety...

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