Weight Loss Early Symptoms Of Hiv

Increased energy expenditure in response to opportunistic disease as well as to.

Weight loss early symptoms of hiv. The early symptoms reoccur and become more severe. These later stage 3 or aids symptoms may also begin and include. After the early stage of hiv infection the virus moves into a stage called the clinical latency stage which some people call chronic hiv.

This is the typical initial presentation then this resolves after several weeks. These infections are known as opportunistic infections. Some hiv related infections are more severe in women for example fungal disease especially vaginal yeast infections and cervical dysplasia.

To help diagnose aids and hiv in resource poor communities where medical testing facilities are lacking the world health organization who created a staging system that diagnoses hiv disease stages based on clinical symptoms 4 among other complaints a symptom of stage 2 that immediately follows the acute hiv stage is unexplained weight loss that totals less than 10 percent of your presumed. To be honest if you have a 4th generation hiv test the sensitivity is well over 99 for those. By the third stage of hiv infection a person s immune system is severely damaged.

You should not worry. Regarding the weight loss it is very unlikely to be related to hiv it is true that weight loss can be a symptom of hiv but this happens very late in the course of the disease in the aids stage which happens many years after the infection. Nail changes fingers and or toes genital and oral herpes.

Weight loss late in the course of human immunodeficiency virus hiv disease is common and often multifactorial. But there s a lot going on inside your body. Hiv can cause neurological symptoms such as confusion forgetfulness depression anxiety and difficulty walking.

Untreated hiv aids can cause significant weight loss often accompanied by diarrhea chronic weakness and fever.