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| | Title: | What are symptoms of early HIV infection? | | Article: | HIV infected people usually
do not have any symptoms at first. Couple month
later they may suffer a flu-like illness. There
symptoms are not something
extraordinary: fever,
headache, fatigue, swollen
lymph nodes especially in the
neck and groin. Everything
looks like any other flu.
Then symptoms go away.
However, at this stage the
affected people are very
infectious. They make a lot
of HIV that is easily
transmitted by genital
contacts. That is the
danger for other people. This
period of "asymptomatic"
infection depends on the
person.
Really severe symptoms
sometime occur only a
decade
later. Children born from
HIV mothers may show
symptoms earlier. Some
people develop the symptoms
within a few months.
During this asymptomatic
period the HIV virus is
actively spreading it he
body. The virus kills
immune cells. It also hides within
infected macrophages and
lymphocytes, and stays
dormant. The clear sigh of
HIV infection is the drop in
CD4 positive T-lymphocytes
counts. The virus destroys
these important cells of
immune system.
The loss and deactivation
of the immune system
eventually leads to
complications. The first
signs of infection are enlarged
lymph nodes (lay people
name them glands). This is sign
of majority of infections
and other inflammatory
conditions. Other symptoms
are also not specific to HIV
only.
Low energy, weight loss,
fevers and night sweats are
also common for tuberculosis, rheumatic
diseases and many others. Later the loss
of immunity leads to yeast
infections (inside mouth or vagina), skin rashes,
inflammatory conditions,
which do not respond to
regular treatment.
Eventually different weird
bugs that are easily destroyed
by a normal immune system,
take control over in the
HIV infected persons. They
cause unusual infections
and tumors. Herpes infections
of mouth and genitalia
become frequent guests.
Shingles happen too often.
| | Author: | Aleksandr Kavokin, MD, PhD | | System: | Immunity | | Subject: | HIV | | Abstract: | The loss and deactivation
of the immune system
eventually leads to
complications. | | Website: | http://www.kavokin.com | | Time: | 17:34 | | Reference: | http://www.rdoctor.com | | Reference 2: | http://www.symptomat.com |
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