AIDS

A community portal about AIDS with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Acquired immune deficiency syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome is a collection of symptoms and infections in humans resulting from the specific damage to the immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus. The late stage of the condition leaves individuals prone to opportunistic infections and tumors. Although treatments for AIDS and HIV exist to slow the virus's progression, there is no known cure. HIV is transmitted through direct contact of a mucous membrane or the bloodstream with a bodily fluid containing HIV, such as blood, semen, vaginal fluid, preseminal fluid, and breast milk. This transmission can come in the form of anal, vaginal or oral sex, blood transfusion, contaminated hypodermic needles, exchange between mother and baby during pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding, or other exposure to one of the above bodily fluids.

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AIDS and Symptoms

Written by mmsite3 on

AIDS and Symptoms .. AIDS can never be diagnosed with symptoms, although there are symptoms that develop as AIDS virus progresses in the body.

I would like to make it clear that AIDS begin by a HIV infection. When people are infected with HIV, they do not have any symptoms for many years. (could take 10 years or more)

During that period, HIV develops to become AIDS, and infected people can transmit the virus to others. This is the most dangerous point about AIDS or HIV.

Because a HIV-infected person may seem well-looking, while he is actively transmitting virus to other people.

If HIV is not treated or detected, it will rapidly develop and the infected immune system will weaken, at the latest stage it is called AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome).

Symptoms of AIDS

As I said, symptoms will only occur if HIV is developed into AIDS and the symptoms of AIDS are a result of series of infections called opportunistic infections that do not normally develop in humans with healthy immune.

Why they are called opportunistic infections? Because they do not happen to people with healthy immune. But since AIDS destryos the immune system, they will occur in infected people.

What are common symptoms with AIDS infected people?
They are fevers, sweats, weakness, weight loss, and a series of “rare” infections and cancers.

I will probably discuss these infections later in detail. But I just wanted to make it clear to you about the difference between AIDS and HIV, and when exactly symptoms occur.

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