HIV infection is due to virus, bacteria, fungi, and parasites. Normally, people with healthy immune system do not develop these infections. Soon after these initial symptoms go away, you do not suffer any symptoms at all for many years, as long as a decade.
Signs and Symptoms of Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
New York (USA), June 19, 2013
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome: Signs and Symptoms
HIV infection is due to virus, bacteria, fungi, and parasites. Normally, people with healthy immune system do not develop these infections.
It is common to develop mild symptoms similar to flu within two to six weeks of contracting HIV infection. Such symptoms last for a month. This is primary or acute HIV infection. Signs and symptoms of this stage of infection include:
– Fever
– Muscle soreness and ache
– Joint pain
– Sore throat
– Night sweats
– Red Rash
– Diarrhea
– Headache
– Swollen lymph glands on the neck
– Fatigue
– Weakness
– Weight loss
– Chillness
– Mouth or genital ulcers
Soon after these initial symptoms go away, you do not suffer any symptoms at all for many years, as long as a decade. HIV remains in your body as free virus, multiplies, and continues to infect white blood cells. This is clinical latent infection stage. Lymph node swelling continues to persist in some of you in this stage. Otherwise, there are no specific signs and symptoms. Some of you could develop very mild symptoms like:
– Diarrhea
– Fever
– Weight loss
– Fatigue
– Persistent irritating cough
– Breathlessness
However, HIV continues to multiply within your body. Your immune system is constantly attacked and hence is weakening. Outwardly, you remain and feel healthy. Your immune system is unable to fight any infection. You are vulnerable to serious illnesses. This is late-stage HIV infection. Signs and symptoms include:
– Soaking night sweats
– Chronic diarrhea
– High fever accompanied with severe chills continuing for several weeks
– Persistent white spots on tongue or in your mouth
– Blurred, distorted vision
– Unexplained fatigue
– Insistent headaches
You are at a great risk of developing various serious illnesses like:
– Acute aseptic meningitis, peripheral neuropathy, and sub-acute encephalitis (nervous system infections)
– Pneumonia
– Tuberculosis
– Esophagitis or inflammation of esophagus lining at lower end
– Cancers like lung cancer, cervical cancer, head and neck cancers, immune system cancers or lymphomas, Kaposi’s sarcoma, and rectal cancer
– Toxoplasmosis, a brain disease
However, early HIV treatment can cure and in most cases stop occurrence of these diseases.
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