Today, AIDS is one of the top five killer diseases (including cancer, diabetes, heart failure, and pneumonia) that cause the largest number of people to die on our planet. The epidemic of this disease is growing and spreads to all new regions.
AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) is a stage of the human immunodeficiency virus, when due to its development and a gradual decrease in the immunity of an infected person, his condition is characterized by constantly emerging opportunistic infections (diseases caused by viruses and bacteria that do not cause illness in healthy people with normal immunity), tumor and other noncommunicable diseases.
Immunodeficiency syndrome is a very insidious disease. The first signs of AIDS are very easy to miss, because most often in the early stages of this disease there are practically no symptoms. However, they can sometimes occur even after a short period of time after infection.
In order not to miss the first symptoms of AIDS in time, you need to know that they include:
1. Unreasonable and asymptomatic elevated body temperature of the patient to 37.5-38 degrees, which passes as suddenly as it appears.
2. Enlarged lymph nodes in the groin, in the armpits, on the neck. They do not hurt and have a compacted structure to the touch.
3. Red spots throughout the body.
4. Increased fatigue.
5. Intermittent fever and night sweats.
6. Sometimes there are unpleasant sensations in the throat, pain when swallowing.
7. Problems with stool, diarrhea.
Such symptoms are characteristic of a simple cold or flu, so many do not pay attention to these signs. However, the first signs of AIDS eventually disappear and reappear, and this may mean that the disease is progressing.
Symptoms of the disease are also constantly emerging opportunistic infections: pneumonia, herpes, cytomegalovirus infection, tuberculosis.
In a person who is HIV-infected, the first signs of AIDS are also frequent diseases that in people with a normal immune system go away on their own or are easily treated; they can lead to a state when diseases of internal organs begin to develop, often ending in the death of a person.
In addition, other first signs of AIDS may appear: white spots in the oral cavity, as well as rapid and significant weight loss. There are also individual symptoms in women and men.
The first symptoms of AIDS in women can be frequent infectious diseases of the pelvic organs and vaginal infections that are difficult to treat, an abnormal smear of the cervix.
The first signs of AIDS in men, which do not appear in women, are, firstly, a rash that appears from one week to a month and may look like multiple patches of colorless skin. Secondly, men who have this disease often experience headaches. Unlike women in men, the signs of AIDS are very vague and short-lived.
Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome is an advanced stage of HIV infection, it is very dangerous and difficult to treat. In order not to miss the moment and not endanger your life, it is better to pass the test for the presence of the immunodeficiency virus at the slightest suspicion, which today is the only reliable way to give an absolute result, to identify this disease. Even if HIV has entered the body, with its timely detection, it is possible to control its reproduction and use modern drugs to stop the development of the body.
Take care of yourself and remember the possible consequences of your weaknesses.