subject: What are viewable signals that someone has AIDS? [print this page] At the beginning, we should speak about the signals. HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) infection comes when the virus gets into the body of human. It signifies that the person has the virus, that transports the virus, but that person is not positive. HIV infection, with no visual symptoms and signs of sickness can last for years and stay unrecognised. AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) is the final and most serious level of HIV infection. In essence, it is a complete impairment of the defense (immune) function of the organism, and the person is predisposed to variable infections. We can differentiate four degrees of HIV infection:
- Acute HIV syndrome, followed by a latent period
- Growth of lymph nodes - a raising generalized lymphadenopathy
- AIDS-related complex (ARC)
- AIDS
Some time after a someone has been infected with the HIV virus, close to 70% of them get symptoms of severe HIV syndrome. Signals last about 2 calendar weeks and they are similar to flu signals. Regrettably, nearly all of the infected do not discover them, but identification of these signals in this early point would bring to better handling. Some of the symptoms are: fever, sore throat, rash, diarrhea, headache, loss of appetite, nausea...
After the initial reaction of the body, starts out latent period during which there is no visual aspect of any symptoms, except sometimes slenderly enlarged lymph nodes. HIV antibodies can be found by examination in the lab, but the virus is hard to trace in the blood. At this point, the patient is contagious, and he can transfer HIV to other people.
Following stage is growth of lymph nodes. This phase can be passed over and patients can shift instantly from latency phase in the ARC phase.
The key symptoms of ARC are the temperature, long-term diarrhoea and weight loss along with some opportunistic infections, mouth candidiasis, vaginal candidiasis, herpes zoster, peripheral neuropathy, cervical dysplasia
At Last, AIDS phase. The patient in this phase can recover from opportunistic infections, but they shortly re-occur, with critical and frequent symptoms. Healing of them all gets more and more hard and at last the patient dies. Outcomes are visual on the brain, bowels, junctions, kidneys, blood forming organs and skin. Common symptoms are present as in the ARC: temperature, diarrhea and loss of bodily mass. Weight loss is in particular pronounced and the patient in the last phase looks like a live skeleton.
