AIDS Symptoms
Date Submitted: 10/15/2001 10:28:35
Category: / Society & Culture / People
Length: 2 pages (585 words)
Category: / Society & Culture / People
Length: 2 pages (585 words)
The symptoms of AIDS are primarily the result of infections that do not normally develop in people with healthy immune systems. These infections are termed "opportunistic infections."
Patients with AIDS have had their immune system destroyed by HIV and are susceptible to such opportunistic infections.
The general symptoms are fevers, sweats, chills, weakness, and weight loss. Some other ones are loss of energy, weight loss, a thick, whitish coating of the tongue or mouth that
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primarily in Women. Some of these are:
Vaginal Yeast Infection
Discharge from the vagina
causes a burning or itching sensation
it is very difficult to cure
Pelvic Inflammatory Disease
Pain in abdomen
unusual vaginal discharge painful intercourse
pain in back of legs, lower back
, and painful urination
Fever
bleeding between menstrual cycles
Cervical
cancer caused by radical changes in cervical tissues
Bacterial Pneumonia
Infection in lungs causing thick mucous
most common in women
Anthony Lusardi
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