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HIV Symptoms in Men

Saturday, November 20th, 2010

Among the many HIV symptoms in men, infections are the most common. Generally, the infections can have as a starting point the first contact with the virus upon the body; sexual intercourse, related to the Chlamydia infection, infection of the scratched wound through which the virus entered the body, infection on the pierced skin, or needle puncture and so on.

Infections are most common, and the body can fight them off easily, especially at the skin level, due to the high number of white cells set on alert beneath the skin. Because the HIV virus attacks the immune system, once it has entered the organism through a punctured wound, the white cells are no longer capable of fighting with the virus. Once destroyed, less and less white cells reach the pierced spot on the skin to protect it from bacteria. As so, the spot on the skin, where the virus entered the body is most likely to get infected.

Very different from a normal infection, the infection caused by the HIV virus to the skin is very aggressive, and can contain over thousands of millions of multiplying bacteria, simply because the body can not fight them off. Strong antibiotics are recommended, for those that know to have this condition. For those that experience an infection for more than 5 days, and spreading, after the medical appointment the HIV test is mandatory. The virus is very easy to detect at this point, and this can be one of the best signs to show its presence, and start a treatment.

HIV symptoms in men include these types of manifests every time, either as a body response, either as an infection of the skin because of the lack of immunity. Because in females this is a symptom that manifests later in the development of the virus, in men it can be a good sign to find the HIV infection and treat it before spreading out of control.

Common HIV Symptoms in Women

Thursday, June 10th, 2010

HIV or human immunodeficiency virus is a kind of virus that attacks human immune system. HIV virus can cause death because this virus weakens the immune system against infection. Mostly new infected person of HIV virus are women that estimated will surpass men in number. The younger women also can be infected by the virus along with free lifestyle. Around the world, the virus has been made people lost their lives about 7 million, it is why we need to know the symptoms, especially in women as the most new infected.

Commonly, every person has experience specific symptoms that can be different; if you have recently unprotected sex then you need to care for any sign seriously. Firstly you may feel tat your weight lost rapidly without any try. It can happen because the diarrhea and lack of appetite that may be a common thing.

The second symptoms are the swollen glands, it can be found usually in the neck, armpits and groin are. The swollen glands occur as the sign of body trying to fight the infection. When your body accept stranger matter that invade your body system, it would try to get rid the matter, but if the trial didn’t succeed the foreign matter cannot be destroy.

Another common symptom that you can find is flulike that will appear after weeks since you are getting infected. Usually, you will also get fatigue even you didn’t do hard activity, body aches, sore throat and fever. Many women ignore these symptoms but it can happen because the body trying to fight the virus.

Women with HIV will get their menstrual cycle become abnormal compared with the past. It can start off as missed periods then you may didn’t have the periods at all as the HIV seroconversion proceeding. If you recently have unprotected sex and find the cycles become irregular, it could be the sign that you are infected by the virus.