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You must already know what the HIV virus and Aids disease. I will try to share important matters related to the disease AIDS, especially some of his symptoms or common characteristics that you should beware. Aids disease is generally caused by the virus HIV or Human Immunodeficiency Virus HIV is present mainly in human body fluids. Fluid potentially containing the HIV virus are blood, semen, vaginal fluid and breast milk. While the liquid is no potential to transmit the HIV virus is a liquid sweat, saliva, tears, etc. Before HIV turned into AIDS, the sufferer will look well in approximately 5 to 10 years. Although it looks healthy, they can transmit HIV to others through unsafe sex, blood transfusion or use of hypodermic needles in turn. Most people infected with Aids through the following things: sex with an infected person sharing needles with an infected person born to mothers who are infected, or drinking the breast milk of infected mothers Getting a transfusion of infected blood is one way once infected, but blood supply is very tight now filtered so that the risk is very low. There was never any evidence that HIV can be transmitted through tears or saliva, but people may be infected through oral sex, or in cases of extremely rare, through deep kissing, especially if you have open sores in the mouth or experiencing gum bleeding. Clinical Symptoms of AIDS A person affected by the HIV virus in the early onset generally do not provide typical signs and symptoms, patients only have a fever for 3 to 6 weeks depending on the immune system when it got in contact with HIV virus. Once conditions improved, people affected by the HIV virus will remain healthy in several years and gradually decreased body immunity / weak to fall ill because of recurrent fever attacks. One way to get certainty is to undergo HIV antibody test especially if a person feels conducting activities that are at risk of contracting the HIV virus. The signs and symptoms seen in patients with AIDS disease among is as below: 1. Respiratory tract. Patients experiencing shortness of breath, stop breathing for a moment, cough, chest pain and fever bleak other viral infections (pneumonia). Not infrequently the diagnosis at an early stage of HIV disease AIDS suspected tuberculosis. 2. Digestive tract. AIDS disease patients showed signs and symptoms such as loss of appetite, nausea and vomiting, often have a fungal disease in the oral cavity and esophagus, as well as having a chronic diarhea. AIDS has a broad spectrum of clinical picture. In the early beginning there are symptoms like the flu. Patients who feel tired prolonged and without cause, lymph glands in the neck, armpits, swollen groin for months, decreased appetite / loss, persistent fever reached 39 degrees Celsius or sweating on evenings, diarrhea, weight loss without reason, black wounds on the skin or mucous membranes that can not be cured, prolonged coughing and in the throat, easy bruising or bleeding without cause. Symptoms the beginning is often called AIDS Related Complex (ARC). In the unlikely event of this disease increases, other malignant disease develops, such as: pneumonia, thrush esophagus, cytomegalovirus or herpes, sarcoma , a tumor malignant blood vessels. In general, symptoms of aids can be divided into major and minor symptoms Major Symptoms: - Weight loss of more than 10% within 1 month - Chronic diarrhea lasting more than 1 month - Fever lasting more than 1 month - Impairment of consciousness and neurological disorders - Dementia / HIV encephalopathy Minor symptoms: - A cough settled more than 1 month - Dermatitis generalized - The presence of herpes and herpes zoster recurrent zostermultisegmental - Kandidias oropharyngeal - Herpes simplex chronic progressive - Generalized lymphadenopathy - Recurrent fungal infection in a woman's genitals - Cytomegalovirus retinitis So, lets beware of above Symptoms