Acute AIDS infection symptoms?

Update Date: 2023-11-03 Source: Network

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During the period of acute HIV infection, a large number of HIV copies and CD4 cells decrease sharply. The main clinical manifestations are systemic, skin, nervous system and intestinal symptoms. Acute AIDS infection symptoms? Let's talk about it.

Acute AIDS infection symptoms?

1. The skin damage of AIDS in acute infection period is one of the main parts of AIDS invasion. The main manifestations of skin damage are skin rash, mostly non itchy red macular papules, occasionally diffuse urticaria or hydroherpes. The skin rash occurs mostly on the face and trunk, and can appear all over the body in severe cases. Many AIDS patients with skin damage as the first symptom.

2. The systemic symptoms of acute HIV infection include fever, sore throat, night sweats, arthralgia, lymphadenopathy and hepatosplenomegaly. Chronic diarrhea is also a very obvious early clinical manifestation of some AIDS patients. The most common clinical symptoms of AIDS patients are recurrent low fever, accompanied by shivering, emaciation, fatigue and weakness, weight loss (5-22 kg), drowsiness and weakness, unable to support normal physical activities, and unable to find the causes of fever, diarrhea and weight loss.

3. The symptoms of central nervous system in acute infection period. About 9% of patients with nervous system injury may have acute HIV meningitis. The clinical manifestations are fever, headache, vomiting and meningeal irritation. The number of monocytes and protein content in cerebrospinal fluid examination are increased. The above symptoms lasted for 2-3 weeks, and most of them recovered spontaneously. 20% - 40% of AIDS patients have neurological diseases. Neurological disorders have been recognized as a common cause of morbidity and mortality in AIDS patients. Symptoms of central nervous system often coexist with symptoms caused by various opportunistic infections, and subacute encephalitis is more common.

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Friends may have seen that two to four weeks after being infected, they begin to enter the acute phase, and then they begin to show symptoms. The acute phase takes about one to three weeks, and then the symptoms begin to ease, and the disease enters the asymptomatic stage.