Post Date November, 16 2024
What are the initial symptoms of AIDS? Some patients have no clinical symptoms at the initial stage of HIV infection, but most of them can have clinical symptoms of HIV blood and acute injury of the immune system 6 days to 6 weeks after HIV infection. The initial symptoms of AIDS are mainly as follows
1. Lymphadenopathy, especially those in the neck, armpit and groin, are about 1cm in diameter, hard, painless, mobile, and last for more than 3 months.
2. For weeks, unexplained fever and night sweats.
3. Severe fatigue that has been difficult to explain for weeks.
4. Loss of appetite, weight loss exceeding 10% of original weight within two months.
5. For several weeks, unexplained chronic diarrhea has occurred, presenting as watery and occurring more than 10 times a day.
6. Respiratory stimulation and coughing for several weeks.
7. There are flat or raised pink or purple red large spots on the skin and mouth, which are not painful or itchy.
8. White film appears in the throat and throat. Scaly patches appear on the male genitals, and in itchy women, itching in the anus, vaginal itching, and vaginal discharge are often treated with gynecological diseases that cannot be cured.
9. Headache, blurred vision, unable to find other causes.
If there are three or more symptoms mentioned above and high-risk behavior occurs, it is necessary to immediately go to the hospital for examination.
The symptoms of AIDS vary from time to time. The incubation period from HIV infection to AIDS varies from several months to 17 years, with an average of 8 years. Since various Opportunistic infection and malignant tumors often occur in the later stage of HIV infection, according to the acute stage, Asymptomatic stage and AIDS stage of cancer disease, the clinical manifestations of AIDS symptoms are diverse.
2. Asymptomatic stage
Clinically, there are often Asymptomatic and signs. It is not easy to detect HIV antigen in blood, but it can detect HIV antibody. The duration of this period is generally 6-8 years. During the Asymptomatic period, due to the continuous replication of HIV in the infected person, the immune system is damaged, and the CD4+T lymphocyte count gradually decreases, which is also infectious.
3. AIDS
The main manifestations of this period are HIV related symptoms, Opportunistic infection of various systems and tumors. HIV related symptoms are:
(1) Fever, night sweats, and diarrhea lasting for more than one month;
(2) Weight loss often exceeds 10%;
(3) Some patients experience neurological and psychiatric symptoms such as memory loss, mental apathy, personality changes, headaches, epilepsy, and dementia;
(4) Continuous Lymphadenopathy, which is characterized by: there are two or more Lymphadenopathy besides the groin; Lymph node diameter ≥ one centimeter, without tenderness or adhesion; For a continuous period of more than three months.
Opportunistic infection generally include oral candida infection, Pneumocystis pneumonia, cytomegalovirus infection, toxoplasmosis and cryptococcal meningitis, and rapidly progressing active pulmonary tuberculosis. Malignant tumors are commonly found in Kappa's sarcoma and lymphoma of the skin and mucosa.
