symptoms of hiv
2006-09-01 23:10:40 · 7 answers · asked by Babuc 1 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Infectious Diseases
The only way you can find out whether or not you have been infected is to have an HIV test.
What is the difference between HIV and AIDS?
The letters HIV stand for Human Immunodefiency Virus. This virus infects cells of the human immune system and destroys them or stops them from working. Someone whose immune system has been damaged by HIV is much more vulnerable to infections and cancers.
AIDS is short for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. Someone with HIV does not have AIDS unless their immune system has been severely weakened. By this point, the person will have developed one of a number of particularly severe illnesses, or will have lost most of their immune system cells. Read more about stages of HIV infection.
What are the symptoms of HIV and AIDS?
There are no standard symptoms of HIV infection or of AIDS.
People living with HIV may feel and look completely well but their immune systems may nevertheless be damaged. It is important to remember that once someone is infected they can pass on HIV right away, even if they feel healthy.
As time passes without effective treatment, HIV weakens an infected person's immune system, making them much more vulnerable to opportunistic infections. These infections are caused by germs that are around us all the time but which can normally be fought off by a healthy immune system. Once HIV has broken down the body's defences, such infections can take hold and produce any of a wide range of symptoms - some of them very severe. Also, some tumours or cancers can occur as a result of a damaged immune system and can cause damage to the brain and nervous system.
Such symptoms are, however, not caused directly by HIV, and they can't by themselves be interpreted as definite signs of HIV infection or AIDS. A diagnosis of AIDS requires signs of severe immune deficiency, which cannot be explained by any factor except HIV. This generally involves an HIV test.
The only way to know for sure whether a person is infected with HIV is for them to have an HIV test.
So does HIV by itself have any symptoms?
Most people who become infected with HIV do not notice any immediate change in their health. However, some may suffer from a flu-like illness within a few weeks of infection, or may develop a rash or swollen glands. These signs do not mean that they are already developing AIDS.
"I have flu-like symptoms/swollen glands - could it be HIV?"
Many illnesses have flu-like symptoms or cause swollen glands. You cannot have HIV unless you have been directly exposed to the virus. HIV can be transmitted during sexual intercourse with an infected person, through contact with infected blood or breastmilk, or during unsafe injections or medical procedures. If you are not sure whether or not you have been put at risk then first read our page about how you can and can't be infected with HIV.
2006-09-01 23:14:54 · answer #1 · answered by rajan 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
8 to 10 years
2006-09-02 19:41:10 · answer #2 · answered by iknowsome 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
that's not that they promptly have a lot of sex companions it really is that that they had unsafe and promiscuous sex earlier they grew to change into contaminated. even as and if what you assert is authentic, then, the answer is elementary, they use sex as an get away, additionally they opt to have as a lot unbridled exhilaration as they could earlier they depart, it really is in worry-free words human. that's not smart because there are sorts of HIV and they could pass infect one yet another which may reason different well being issues. yet thats yet another tale. you're generalizing i understand various gay hiv powerful adult men which have not change into bareback promiscuous human beings. they're very worried about their companions well being and attempt now to not positioned them in possibility and nonetheless have a well being sex life.
2016-10-15 22:39:18 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, it's pretty quick, but it's only medically detectable after about 3 months.
2006-09-01 23:13:09 · answer #4 · answered by JeffE 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think 6 months
2006-09-01 23:23:00 · answer #5 · answered by Smokeahontis© 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
as soon as ya'lls body fluid touch, the window could be closed especially if your partner already has it--
symptoms-- weight lost, open sores , pain , at just depends on the person who caught it-------- always safe sex
2006-09-01 23:16:00 · answer #6 · answered by Ladder Captain-29 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
not longer than the death it self
2006-09-01 23:13:32 · answer #7 · answered by crunk 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋