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HIV Symptoms: How To Diagnose Them? The infection of HIV can be controlled and cured if the diagnosis is done on time and is detected. Normally, it is very difficult to know whether the person sitting in front of our eyes has HIV or not, because most of the people who are infected with HIV seem to be perfectly healthy. Others who seem sick with the HIV may show symptoms that can be of other common diseases also. Therefore, it is not simple to see a person and tell whether he or she is HIV positive or not. The initial HIV symptoms can resemble the symptoms of flu or common cold or of sexually transmitted diseases like hepatitis or ‘mono’. Anxiety and stress can also cause such symptoms in people that may resemble those of HIV. Some people with HIV may experience strong symptoms of HIV while others may have no problem at all. People who do show symptoms of HIV experience fatigue, fever, and rashes often. Other symptoms may also include swollen nymph node, sore throat, and headache. Such HIV symptoms may occur within some days or even weeks after the exposure to HIV virus during the period known as acute or primary HIV infection. Because of non-specific HIV symptoms associated with acute or primary infection, the symptoms are usually not reliable to diagnose an HIV infection. Testing is the only sure-shot way to identify whether a person has been infected with HIV or not. In the initial stage, the symptoms that a person may show are not other than something ordinary like fever, headache, swollen lymph nodes in groin and neck and fatigue. After some time, these symptoms get away without any hint that the person is HIV infected. Normally the severe symptoms of HIV show up only after at least 8-10 years during which the HIV virus actively spreads into the body and kills the immune cells, which leads to more complications in the patient’s system. Other symptoms like low energy, night sweat and weight loss are also symptoms of rheumatic diseases, tuberculosis and other diseases. Later, loss of immune system leads to skin rashes, yeast infection in vagina or in mouth and inflammatory conditions that are unable to be controlled by ordinary treatment methods. Eventually, other unusual tumors and infections start taking place in the person’s body and herpes and shingles become most frequent guests. As the person’s system of immunity gets completely damaged, he or she becomes susceptible to infections and other HIV symptoms. It includes persistent exhaustion followed by giddiness and headache, intense dry cough, frequent occurrences of fever higher than 100°F. It is followed by shivering and chills for many weeks continuously. Distorted and indistinct vision, bleeding from mucous membranes, out-growth in the skin for no possible reason, persistent rashes and white spots all over the person’s body, sore throat followed by a white thick layer on the tongue are amongst few symptoms. It is usually due to yeast infection, frequent infections in vagina of HIV positive ladies, acute soreness and numbness in limbs followed by fractional loss of strength and control in muscles, chronic pelvic inflammation and herpes zoster infection in women and other serious diseases like cancers. Cervical cancer, lymphoma, and Kaposi’s sarcoma are quite common types of cancer that can be seen in people who are HIV positive.
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Guy Weber is author of this article on HIV Symptoms. Find more information about AIDS Symptoms here.
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