What are the early symptoms of AIDS? The early symptoms of AIDS are manifested in six aspects

Some netizens asked about the early symptoms of AIDS, but there were no symptoms at the early stage. The course of AIDS can be divided into:

(1) Incubation period: The time from HIV invasion to clinical symptoms is more than 6 months to 8~10 years. Attention should be paid to the "window period" problem, that is, the time from HIV invasion to antibody is called the "window period" of HIV. Most people think this problem is about 3 months. Although the antibody is not detected in the blood of the window infected person, the blood, semen, vaginal secretions and other body fluids contain HIV and are infectious.

(2) Acute infection period: A clinical manifestation similar to the symptoms of infectious mononucleosis, with serum HIV antibody positivity, and more than one-third of infected individuals experiencing this symptom.

(3) Asymptomatic HIV infection period: HIV antibody positive, without clinical symptoms. The incubation period from infection to symptoms may be 1-15 years, with an average of 3-5 years.

(4) Persistent systemic lymph node enlargement: first seen in the neck, armpits, and inguinal lymph nodes, and then spread throughout the body. Lasting for more than 3 months, with at least 3 non inguinal enlarged lymph nodes with a diameter of more than 1cm, and the cause is unknown.

(5) AIDS related syndrome: a series of non-specific clinical symptoms. If you have fever, diarrhea, and weight loss of more than 10%, you can't find other reasons, such as anorexia, rash, dry cough, idiopathic platelet purple scar, and a large number of condyloma around the mouth and anus. These symptoms are usually three years lighter than the typical AIDS symptoms.

(6) AIDS: Due to the serious damage to the immune system, secondary infection often becomes the cause of death from AIDS. Common infections include Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, chronic cryptosporidiosis, toxoplasmosis, candidiasis, cryptococcosis, tuberculosis, etc. Secondary tumors, malignant tumors caused by cellular immune dysfunction, mainly include Kaposi's sarcoma, non Hodgkin's lymphoma, and primary brain lymphoma. Other complications, such as chronic lymphointerstitial pneumonia. AIDS can also damage the nervous system, leading to late brain damage, manifested as memory loss, apathy, dyskinesia, partial paralysis, dementia or mental symptoms. These symptoms can occur alone or in conjunction with the aforementioned symptoms. After the diagnosis of AIDS, the average survival time of patients is 3 years. Regardless of the clinical staging, once infected with HIV, it carries the virus for life, regardless of clinical manifestations, and is infectious. One of the current problems is that people are often afraid of AIDS, so they have prejudice, discrimination and exclusion against people living with AIDS. In fact, AIDS infected people and patients are also victims. Discrimination and exclusion against them are not only unfair to them, but also detrimental to the prevention and control of AIDS. The whole society should strive to change old ideas.