I have a question about aids.....i don't have aids or nething, but i was curious, what are the first symptoms?

A friend of mine thinks that someone she knows may have aids, so i was wondering what are some of the early symptoms of the HIV virus?

Please keep in mind that HIV and AIDS are NOT the same thing.

The earliest symptoms of HIV infection occur while your body begins to form antibodies to the virus (known as seroconversion) between six weeks and three months after infection with the HIV virus.

Those who do show early HIV symptoms will develop flu-like symptoms. This can include: fever, rash, muscles aches and swollen lymph nods and glands. However, for most people, the first symptoms of HIV will not be apparent.

Although the infection is slowly taking hold of your body, the majority of those infected with HIV will be asymptomatic. Only by being tested for HIV can you know for sure if you have been infected. Yet, despite the absence of HIV symptoms, you are still highly contagious during this time making it very much a possibility to infect others, including your baby.

HIV/AIDS Symptoms

As the infection progresses, people with HIV grow increasingly susceptible to illnesses and infection that don鈥檛 normally affect the healthy population. Even though many of these illnesses can easily be treated, those with HIV often have such weakened immune systems that typical cures fail.

Without treatment, people infected with HIV can expect to develop AIDS eight to ten years after HIV infection. Taking HIV medications, however, can slow down this progression. With treatment, it can take ten to 15 years or more before you develop AIDS. In the later stages of HIV, before it progresses to full blown AIDS, signs of HIV infection can involve more severe symptoms. These include:

chronic yeast infections or thrush (yeast infection of the mouth)
Fever and/or night sweats
Easy bruising
Bouts of extreme exhaustion
Unexplained body rashes
Appearance of purplish lesions on the skin or inside mouth
Sudden unexplained weight loss
Chronic diarrhea lasting for a month or more

Symptoms of AIDS

To be diagnosed with AIDS, your T4 cell count must drop to below 200 per cubic millimeter (in healthy adults, a T4 cell count of 1,000 or more per millimeter is normal) or be infected with an opportunistic infection. Opportunistic infections are so named because they take advantage of your weakened immune system. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention maintains a list of those illnesses that are deemed to be opportunistic infections and lead to an AIDS diagnosis. This list includes, but is not limited to:

Kaposi鈥檚 Sarcoma
Pulmonary tuberculosis
Candidiasis of the esophagus, trachea, bronchi or lungs
Toxoplasmosis of the brain
Severe bacterial infections
Invasive cervical cancer
Lymphoma
Recurrent pneumonia

Additionally, vision loss, nerve damage and brain impairment can also occur. Signs of brain deterioration include troubles thinking, loss of co-ordination and balance and behavioral changes.
While there are treatments to help prolong the life of those infected with the AIDS virus, there is currently no AIDS cure. The best way to protect yourself is by taking preventative measures

well unfortunatly for "your friends friend" there are no symtoms until you are late were it is then pronounced to the deadly level of AIDS first is HIV

Flu like symtoms.....caughing.....no energy....major weight lose....hope this helps! Good Luck!

being unable to fight diseases or common colds.

tiredness, nausea, thurst on tongue. sometimes u don't have symptoms at all until it gets worse.

HIV in the early stages is asymptomatic

But later patient

can have

Fever
cough
Diarrhea
Weight loss
visual loss
Skin tumors
abdominal pain
severe headaches
dementia
and alot more symptoms

Aids can involve almost any organ

The insidious part of this disease is that there are no symptoms in the early stages of HIV. Not until you get into full blown AIDS do symptoms develop, and then they may resemble many other diseases -- flu like symptoms, for example. There is a distinctive 'spot' that AIDS patients develop, and there is usually a weight loss. But these are not early symptoms. If your friend thinks someone she knows may have AIDS, she should take normal precautions but not be unduly alarmed. It is highly contagious through sexual transmission, but not through normal social relationships.

is you know HIV destroies defensive organs in body so the main symptom is being weak and to lose weigh rapidly and of course cachexia and at last i shoud mention that window period(the period at which the virus has not even a little symptom)may lasts even for 50 years

i think some of the syptoms are weight loss lesions loss of hair im not sure you might want to go to a hospital and get some books or somethin

extreme tiredness -- from a reduced immune system being overworked fighing off infections