Symptoms of aids

Dr. Lalit Kumar TripathyGeneral Physician40yrs exp

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Symptoms of hiv\nearly stage\n* within 2-4 week after hiv infection many but not all\n experience flu like symptoms which may last from\nfew days to several weeks this is called acute retroviral\n syndrome. Some patients do not experience any symptoms\n for 10 years or more.\n* the symptoms are fever, swollen gland, sorethroat, skin rash\n* fatigue, headache, muscle and joint pain\nclinical latency stage\n* during this stage hiv patients have no symptoms.\n* if the patient takes art (anti retroviral treatment) at this stage\n he can stay healthy and live in this stage for several decades. Without treatment, this stage lastsfor 10 years and he develops symptoms of aids after 10 years.\n\naids stage\nif the patient has not taken art in the clinical latency stage, he develops aids after 10 years\n the symptoms of aids are\n* rapid weight loss\n* recurrent fever or profuse night sweat\n* extreme unexplained tiredness\n* prolonged swelling of the lymph nodes in armpit, neck and groin\n* uncontrolled diarrhoea lasting for more than a week\n* sores of mouth, anus and genitalia\n* red, brown, pink or purplish rashes under skin, inside of mouth, nose, eye lid\n* pneumonia\n* memory loss, depression and other neurological disorder\n\n. 

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