Symptoms of HIV infection

Among human diseases, AIDS is very harmful to human health. After such a disease occurs, it is almost impossible to cure it. Moreover, after contracting AIDS, timely treatment is also needed, which will be very helpful to stabilize the disease. At the same time, AIDS is also contagious, so for such people, you should pay attention to the amount of contact when you contact them, and it is not advisable to contact them frequently. What are the symptoms of AIDS infection?

Many people are not very clear about the symptoms of AIDS infection. After suffering from this disease, the body will also have obvious manifestations. The following is a detailed introduction so that people can have some understanding of this type of problem.

Symptoms of HIV infection:

Acute infection

15-20% of infected people may experience fever, sweating, fatigue, myalgia, arthralgia, anorexia, rash, swollen lymph nodes, etc. within 2-6 weeks. The symptoms generally last for 3-14 days before entering an asymptomatic period. Some people do not experience any acute symptoms after being infected with HIV.

Asymptomatic period

The vast majority of people infected with HIV do not have any symptoms at the beginning, just like healthy people, so they do not know when they were infected. What is important is that these asymptomatic HIV carriers are the main source of infection. It usually lasts from a few months to more than 10 years. As the immune function gradually declines, symptoms begin to appear.

Early stage

In the early stages of AIDS, patients experience swollen lymph nodes throughout the body, most commonly in the neck, armpits, and groin. The enlarged lymph nodes are mostly symmetrical, hard, non-adhesive, and non-tender and non-fluctuating. A small number of patients may experience mild anemia. But there were no other obvious symptoms. Related syndromes occur. Various symptoms occur gradually and become more severe.

Onset

Such as long-term fever (more than one month), progressive weight loss (weight loss of more than 10% within 2 months), persistent diarrhea, fatigue, anorexia, intellectual impairment, slow reaction, etc. Due to the complete loss of immune function in AIDS patients, common opportunistic infections occur, such as tuberculosis, hepatitis B, oral and pharyngeal fungal infections, etc. AIDS is also often complicated by malignant tumors such as Kaposi's sarcoma, lymphoma, liver cancer, kidney cancer, etc.

The above is a detailed introduction to the symptoms of AIDS infection. After contracting AIDS, the symptoms of the disease vary according to the different stages of the patient's life. Based on the above description, we have some understanding of the symptoms of this type of disease. Therefore, when these problems occur in the body, timely treatment is needed.