Gastrointestinal symptoms of AIDS

Update Date: 2022-06-11 Source: Network

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The reason why HIV infected people and patients have gastrointestinal symptoms is that the damage caused by HIV to the immune system gives the pathogen an opportunity to invade the gastrointestinal tract, so gastrointestinal symptoms appear. AIDS gastrointestinal symptoms to talk to you.

Gastrointestinal symptoms of AIDS

1. Fungal infection of gastrointestinal tract is mainly caused by Candida albicans, which can cause stomatitis, esophagitis and proctitis. Stomatitis can affect eating and lead to chronic malnutrition. Esophagitis often coexists with stomatitis, characterized by sore throat, swallowing pain and mild to moderate retrosternal discomfort. White patches or erosion were found in the lesion.

2. Gastroenteritis caused by gastrointestinal protozoa infection is very common, and the main clinical manifestation is diarrhea, which can lead to severe malnutrition in severe cases. Intestinal diarrhea was watery stool, which was mainly found in complicated infection of flagellate piriformis, Cryptosporidium, isosporidium and microsporidium. The diarrhea caused by Cryptosporidium infection is easy to last for a long time and turn into a chronic process. Colonic diarrhea is mucus or purulent stool, which is mainly seen in complicated amebic enteropathy, bacillary dysentery and cytomegalovirus enteritis.

3. Most of the infections were in the small intestine and rectum, with fever, diarrhea and emaciation; Whipple syndrome is also seen in males. It is characterized by intermittent diarrhea. The stool is frothy, with a large amount of body odor, occasionally with migratory joint pain, purpura, lymphadenopathy and multiple serosi itis. Antituberculous drugs and adrenocorticotropic hormone therapy can relieve symptoms.

matters needing attention

AIDS patients with gastrointestinal symptoms need to be treated as soon as possible, the most direct consequence of gastrointestinal symptoms is to let the infected malnutrition, emaciation, fatigue, cachexia. Symptomatic treatment, and the corresponding AIDS antiviral treatment.