Knowing Symptoms Of AIDS

What Is AIDS ?

AIDS is a collection of symptoms that caused by infection with HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) that induces loss of immune disease, so people easily get infected. And the reality found that that people with AIDS who died was due to infectious diseases and not by the HIV virus. Immune disorder is a state where there is a decrease or loss of normal immune system response. This situation can occur in the primary, which is generally caused by inherited genetic abnormalities, as well as secondary to other major diseases such as infection, chemotherapy treatment,  radiation, drugs immunosuppressive (suppress the immune system) / in old age and malnutrition (nutritional deficiency). AIDS, acquired immunodeficiency syndrome occurs secondary immunodeficiency septic immune HIV. Lack of these can be seen from the levels of CD4 (less than 200) in the body.

Symptoms Of AIDS And its Sign

HIV infection is divided into three stages, namely, the acute phase which lasts for 3-12 weeks, the stage of latent/chronic took place between the years I up to VII, and the stage of the crisis that occurred in the eighth to the eleventh. A person is said to have suffered from AIDS if they express a positive HIV test with appropriate checks and at least 2 symptoms  major and one minor symptom, and symptoms – symptoms are not caused by other conditions related to HIV infection

Major Symptoms of AIDS :

• Body weight decreased by more than 10% in 1 month
• Prolonged diarrhea that lasts more than 1 month
• Prolonged fever of more than 1 month
• Impairment of consciousness and neurological (nerve)
• Dementia (decline in memory / memory) / HIV encephalopathy

Minor symptoms of AIDS :

• A persistent cough over one-month dry
• Generalized dermatitis, an itchy
• The presence of herpes zoster in some places and / recurrent
• Oropharyngeal candidiasis – a fungal disease in the oral cavity and esophagus
• Generalized lymphadenopathy – enlarged lymph nodes in all recurrent yeast infections in female genital

Therapy given to people with AIDS is a causal therapy (cause), supportive therapy to improve the patient’s general condition, and treatment for opportunistic infections. As causal therapy administered antiretroviral (ARV). Indications of ARV is no evidence of HIV infection with symptoms / HIV infection with CD4 examination (one of the immune system) below 200/mL. If the CD4 examination cannot be done, can use TLC examination. 200/mL CD4 lymphocyte count is approximately equivalent to total 1200 sel/dL. ARV administered by the combination, it is based on clinical evidence show that the initiation of therapy using a combination of two / more antiretrovirals to provide optimal results. During the provision of ARVs, monitoring of clinical & laboratory. Research lab supervising done is the testing of Hb, SGOT, SGPT, hematoidin, CD4, and viral load. A successful advance of clinical symptoms, an addition in CD4 and viral effective load. Therapy will exhibit a decrement in viral load after treatment for 3 – 4 weeks. And some analyses advise that within 6 months of therapy about 80% of AIDS survivors who use drugs on a regular basis can reach undetectable state.

Examination Of AIDS disease

To find out if someone has been infected with HIV, can do some examination. The examination is now often used is an antibody test, the test is easily implemented and low fees. If the antibody test was found positive results, then the examination should be repeated and if still positive confirmatory test done with Western Blot test. If the Western Blot not available, then the results tested positive for antibodies if tests show three times positive. Negative results could mean that someone is not infected with HIV / still in the window period.