What are the mid-term symptoms of AIDS?
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AIDS is the English translation abbreviation of the medical term "acquired immunodeficiency syndrome". It is a virulent infectious disease caused by human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which is fatal to human immune system. After human being infected with HIV, the cellular immune function of human body is seriously damaged or even lost, which leads to extremely low resistance of human body, causing infection of various bacteria and parasites, and even complicated with tumor, producing various serious symptoms and extremely high mortality. Do you know the symptoms of AIDS? Here I would like to introduce to you.
What are the mid-term symptoms of AIDS?
Antiviral therapy, the so-called cocktail therapy, refers to the Western cocktail, according to a certain regularity of the three antiviral drugs combined to treat AIDS.
Nervous system symptoms include dizziness, headache, slow reaction, mental disorders, convulsions, hemiplegia, dementia and other brain symptoms. The damage of skin and mucous membrane includes chronic papule, herpes, inflammation and ulceration of oral and pharyngeal mucous membrane. It can be secondary to pulmonary cysticercosis or cysticercosis pneumonia, and can cause a variety of malignant tumors.
General symptoms include persistent fever, weakness, night sweats, swelling of superficial lymph nodes, weight loss and emaciation. Respiratory tract has long-term cough, blood sputum, chest pain and dyspnea. Gastrointestinal symptoms include loss of appetite, anorexia, nausea, vomiting, bloody stool and diarrhea.
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Long term fever (more than one month), progressive weight loss (more than 10% weight loss within two months), persistent diarrhea, fatigue, anorexia, mental retardation, slow reaction, etc. Due to the complete loss of immune function of AIDS patients, common opportunistic infections occur, such as tuberculosis, hepatitis B, oral and pharyngeal fungal infections. AIDS is often accompanied by malignant tumors, such as Kaposi's sarcoma, lymphoma, liver cancer, renal cancer, etc.
