What are the early symptoms of AIDS

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AIDS is a kind of serious chronic progressive infectious disease, which is caused by human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) invading human body, destroying human immune function, causing a variety of incurable infections and tumors, and eventually leading to death. What are the early symptoms of AIDS.

What are the early symptoms of AIDS

Symptom 1: if you have recently had dangerous sexual activity and some of the following symptoms, be sure to see a doctor: persistent low fever, fatigue, unexplained laryngitis, sudden weight loss of more than 10%, headache, nausea, muscle and joint pain, night sweats, persistent diarrhea, skin rash. These symptoms usually appear about 2 weeks after HIV infection.

Symptom 2: a part of acute infected people have cold like symptoms within 6 days to 6 weeks after HIV infection, such as fever, lymphadenectasis, pharyngitis, rash, myalgia or arthralgia, diarrhea, headache, weight loss, etc., which last for an average of two weeks, and can generally subside without special treatment. Of course, the emergence of these cases does not necessarily mean that they are infected with HIV, because other diseases can also have a similar situation.

Symptom 3: after the acute stage, the infected person turns into the asymptomatic infection stage. There were no other clinical symptoms or signs except for a few patients with persistent systemic lymphadenopathy (PGL). PGL refers to the enlargement of at least two non adjacent lymph nodes outside the inguinal lymph nodes, with a diameter of more than 1 cm. Cervical and axillary lymph node enlargement was more common. The period of asymptomatic infection in adults is generally 8-10 years.

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To the early stage of AIDS, infected people will appear continuous or intermittent systemic symptoms and "slight" opportunistic infection. Systemic symptoms include persistent systemic lymphadenopathy, fatigue, anorexia, fever, weight loss, night sweats, thrombocytopenia, etc. Mild infection is mainly manifested in oral cavity, skin and mucous membrane infection, including oral candidiasis, gingivitis, skin fungal infection, herpes zoster, folliculitis, pruritus dermatitis, etc.