Tongue symptoms of AIDS?

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When it comes to AIDS, maybe more people show fear. As a communicable disease, AIDS often makes people have a sense of distance. Especially for people living with AIDS, people are more away from it. AIDS is a kind of disease that destroys the immune function of human body after HIV invades human body, causing a variety of incurable infections and tumors, and eventually leading to death. So what are the symptoms of AIDS? Now let's take a look.

Tongue symptoms of AIDS?

1. Candidiasis albicans. There are two types: macular type and pseudomembranous type. Most of them occurred in palate and back of tongue; Sometimes white spots or plaques can be seen on the red area of the lesion. Lesions can also occur in any part of the mouth, showing white or yellow spots or plaques that can be erased, leaving Red areas with bleeding. Many epidemiological investigations show that oral candidiasis has a high prevalence rate in HIV infected people, which occurs in different stages of HIV infection, up to 96%.

2. Hairy leukoplakia. It is a white or gray lesion on both sides of the tongue, which can also extend to the abdomen and back of the tongue and cannot be erased. Hairy leukoplakia in HIV infected and AIDS patients, is the incidence of candidiasis next to the common oral characterization, but also a sign of HIV related diseases, almost only seen in HIV infected and AIDS population, has a very significant specificity. Therefore, we should attach great importance to the appearance of hairy leukoplakia. Periodontal disease is characterized by gingival inflammation, gingival ulcer, gingival necrosis, tooth loosening, bleeding, pain and canceration. It is reported that 19% ~ 29% of HIV infected or AIDS patients have periodontitis.

3. Kaposi's sarcoma. Kaposi's sarcoma is rare in the general population. With the prevalence of AIDS, Kaposi's sarcoma appears in a large number of people at risk of AIDS.

matters needing attention

AIDS patients are at least 20000 times more likely to have Kaposi's sarcoma than the general population. Kaposi's sarcoma is second only to candidiasis and hairy leukoplakia in oral manifestations of HIV infected and AIDS patients“ Some epidemiological data show that all HIV positive or AIDS patients, from infants to adults, can have oral damage. The incidence rate is highest among men who are homosexual, heterosexual, intravenous drug users and so on.