INFO HIV AND AIDS

Usually common HIV symptom are
1 )Development of shingles
2 )Frequent and severe herpes infections
3 )Frequent fevers and sweats
4 )Increasing sickness ( in children)
5 )Lack of energy
6 )Persistent skin rashes or flaky skin
7 )Short-term memory loss
8 )Slow development ( in children)
9 )Swollen lymph nodes lasting for more than 3 months
10)Weight loss

HIV infection has basically four stage
1 )incubation period
2 )acute infection
3 )latency stage
4 )AIDS

The incubation period upon infection is asymptomatic and usually lasts between two and four week

The second stage, acute infection, which lasts an average of 28 days and can include symptom such as
*fever
*lymphadenopathy (swollen lymph nodes)
*Sore throat
*rash
*muscle pain
*malaise
*mouth and esophageal sores

The latency stage,which occurs third,shows few or no symptoms and can last anywhere from two week to twenty years and beyond

AIDS, the fourth and final stage of HIV infection shows as symptoms of various opportunistic infection.OTHE symptom likes :

* Pneumonia, including PCP
* Tuberculosis
* Night sweats
* Persistent fatigue
* Extreme weight loss and wasting, exacerbated by diarrhea. Up to 90% of HIV
patients worldwide experience diarrhea
* Meningitis and other brain infections
* Fungal infections
* Syphilis
* Malignancies such as lymphoma, cervical cancer, and Kaposi's sarcoma (affects
the skin and oral mucosa and may spread to the lungs. Kaposi's sarcoma can
actually occur in earlier stages of HIV as well)