Symptoms of HIV infection in children

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AIDS itself is not a disease, but a state or comprehensive symptom that cannot resist other diseases. People will not die of AIDS, but will die of AIDS related diseases. The clinical manifestations of AIDS in children were similar to those in adults except that there were no lymph node lesions, Kaposi's sarcoma and opportunistic infection. The symptoms of children's HIV infection, let me tell you.

Symptoms of HIV infection in children

Generally speaking, if children get AIDS symptoms and adults are similar, but children because of the growth and development of the body, so if they get AIDS, may appear poor development symptoms, in addition, almost all AIDS children have hepatosplenomegaly, and pneumonia and other symptoms.

Generally preschool children will have AIDS, perinatal HIV infection, within a year of onset, if children under the age of five infected with this virus, then two or three years later. Babies born with HIV are very light in weight. In addition to the above mentioned symptoms, there may be rash, otitis media, thrombocytopenia and so on.

Children infected with AIDS and adults also have differences, that is, the incidence of bacterial infection in children is more, after the emergence of otitis media, there will be persistent infection, not easy to cure, and even some patients will appear bacterial meningitis, pneumonia and so on. For children with AIDS, we must pay attention to prevention and care.

matters needing attention

Most of the children infected with AIDS, are caused by mother to child transmission, so we should try to put an end to this situation before pregnancy, to avoid mother to child transmission and blood transmission. For already infected with AIDS, we must do a good job in related nursing work, to avoid infection with bacteria.