Early Signs and Symptoms of HIV - HIV is a disease that attacks our immune system and if HIV is not treated properly, it turns into AIDS.
There is no cure for HIV but you can control it with the right treatment. Once infected with the HIV virus, its symptoms start appearing in 2 to 4 weeks.
Its first symptoms are like flu. Then slowly it starts showing its other symptoms. Currently 39 million people are infected with HIV all over the world.
Most of the infected people are between 15 and 50 years old. Most of the HIV patients in the world are in African countries.
Early Signs and Symptoms of HIV
HIV symptoms start appearing only after 2 weeks of infection.
1) Fever
2) Headache
3) Muscle and joint pain
4) Itching
5) Sore Throat and Mouth Ulcers
6) Swollen Lymph Nodes
7) Diarrhea
8) Weight Loss
9) Night Sweats
10) Cough
11) Frequent Colds
All these are the primary symptoms of HIV infection and if not treated properly then the symptoms may increase further like
1) Pneumonia
2) TB
3) Yeast Infection in the Mouth
4) Extreme Tiredness
5) Swollen lymph nodes
6) Herpes Zoster
7) Continuous fever
8) Persistent Diarrhea
HIV destroys CD4 T cells in our body due to which our immune system becomes weak. It takes many years for HIV to become AIDS. AIDS is diagnosed when the CD4 T cell count falls below 200.
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