What are the causes & Symptoms of AIDS?
Causes: A healthy body has CD4 helper lymphocyte cells (CD4 cells). CD4 helper lymphocyte cells assist the immunity system of the body to function properly and hold back certain kinds of disease and infections. This objective is performed by acting as messengers to other types of immunity system cells, informing them to become active and fight back against invasive microbes.
HIV virus attaches themselves to these CD4 lymphocyte cells, taints them, and uses them as a medium for multiplying themselves. In this process, the HIV virus destroys the capacity of the tainted cells to perform their job in the defense mechanism. The body then gradually loses the capability to fight off diseases and infections. The body becomes susceptible to diseases and various ailments especially tuberculosis and other kinds of otherwise rare contagions of the lung (such as Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia), the surface covering of the brain (meningitis), or the brain itself (encephalitis). Now this stage where the body becomes vulnerable to various infections is known by the term AIDS. It is where the human body loses the immunity to fight off the disease spreading germs. Now don’t get panic! It doesn’t happen as fast as you have completed reading this. It takes months to develop AIDS in a HIV positive person and sometimes it even takes years to develop and show the symptoms of AIDS.
Symptoms:
Severe symptoms of HIV infection and AIDS takes years to appear sometimes even for 10 years they may not appear. And sometimes for years leading up with that, a person may not have or show any symptoms of AIDS. The time taken to show the symptoms of AIDS differs from person to person. Some HIV positive people may feel and look fit for years even as they are infected with HIV infection, and they may even not know that they are infected. It is still likely to contaminate others with HIV, even if the infected person has absolutely no appearance of symptoms. Nobody can simply tell by looking at anyone whether he or she is a HIV infected person.
When a person’s immunity system is besieged by AIDS, the following symptoms may began to occur:
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* A person may feel extreme weakness or fatigue
* A person may rapidly lose weight
* A person may experience frequent fevers that last for several weeks with no elucidation
* A person may sweat heavily at night
* A person may have swollen lymph glands
* The person may have minor infections causing skin rashes and mouth, genital, and anal sores
* The person may have white spots in the mouth or throat.
* The person may suffer from chronic diarrhea
* The person may suffer from chronic cough
* The person may suffer from temporary and short term memory loss; he/she may have difficulty in remembering things.
Girls may also experience severe vaginal yeast infections as well as pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) that don’t respond to usual treatment, which worked perfectly well at other times. People who have AIDS tend to keep getting sicker.
