Symptoms of AIDS in men

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Male HIV infection accounts for two-thirds of the total number of people infected with AIDS in China. Nearly 70% of HIV infected people are male, mainly due to unsafe behaviors such as injecting drug use, male sex and whoring. Now I'd like to introduce to you the three major symptoms of AIDS in early adult men.

Symptoms of AIDS in men

There are also some people in the early stage of infection can appear male AIDS initial symptoms, the incidence of about 50%, mainly for fever, dizziness, weakness, sore throat, joint pain, rash, superficial lymph node swelling and other similar "cold" symptoms, some people can also have abdominal diarrhea. This kind of symptom usually lasts 1-2 weeks and then disappears. After that, male HIV infected people will turn into asymptomatic incubation period.

Most people in the incubation period is asymptomatic, but a small number of adult men in the incubation period of AIDS will have lymph node enlargement and neurological symptoms, mainly dizziness, depression, memory loss, action and language disorders, acute aseptic meningitis, manifested as headache, neurological symptoms and meningeal irritation. Lymphadenopathy is also a sign of the incubation period, which is found in a small number of adult men throughout the HIV infection cycle.

There were obvious fever, fatigue, night sweats, uncontrollable weight loss (> 10%), persistent diarrhea, persistent fever (> 38 ℃) for more than 3 months; The clinical manifestations of severe immunodeficiency, such as delayed cellular immune response, opportunistic infection and malignant tumor, can affect all systems and organs of the body, and often have a variety of pathogens causing infection and tumor coexist.

matters needing attention

All male friends who have had unsafe sex, unsafe injecting drug use and other high-risk behaviors, especially men who have sex with men, must be tested for AIDS in time. Those who often have unsafe behaviors should be tested regularly, once every three months, no more than six months at the most, and occasionally have prostitutes or one night stands, To remember that in 2-6 weeks after the window period, timely detection of AIDS antibody, you can choose to the CDC's free counseling test point or directly buy AIDS test paper for home self-test.