Symptoms of AIDS in children

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The occurrence of AIDS can be said to be a sexually transmitted disease with high incidence rate in today's life. The occurrence of this disease will bring certain risks to the lives of patients. Therefore, we must attach importance to AIDS. Then what symptoms will children have in the early stage of AIDS?

Symptoms of AIDS in children

AIDS general initial symptoms like cold, flu, fatigue, loss of appetite, fever, weight loss, with the aggravation of the disease, the symptoms are increasing day by day, such as skin, sticky skin Candida albicans infection, herpes simplex, herpes zoster, purple spots, hematoma, blood blisters, stagnant blood spots, skin damage, bleeding after injury, etc; Later, it gradually invaded the internal organs and continued to have fever of unknown origin, which could last for 3-4 months; Cough, shortness of breath, persistent diarrhea, hematochezia, hepatosplenomegaly, concurrent malignant tumor, dyspnea and so on can also appear. Because the symptoms are complex and changeable, not all of the above symptoms appear in every patient. Generally, more than one or two kinds of symptoms are common.

The symptoms of AIDS in children appear in the early stage of children group, generally in 4-8 months old children, including Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, wasting syndrome and encephalopathy. In children with early and late manifestations, they may develop from persistent otitis media to severe bacterial meningitis or pneumonia. In opportunistic infection, the difference between children and adults is that bacterial infection is very common in children, while Kaposi's sarcoma is rare in adults. In laboratory tests, the absolute number of lymphocytes in most children with AIDS is normal, which is the only immunological index different from adult AIDS.

AIDS, namely acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), is a clinical disease that occurs when the immune function is suppressed to a certain extent after human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. HIV mainly destroys the immune function of patients, and can cause many specific opportunistic infections, organ system damage and tumor. The main manifestations in children are growth and development disorders, systemic lymphadenopathy, chronic diarrhea, mucocutaneous candidiasis, mumps, encephalopathy, lymphocytic interstitial pneumonia (LIP), recurrent bacterial infection, opportunistic infection, systemic lymphoma, hepatosplenomegaly, etc. Because of the diversity of clinical manifestations and the difficulty of diagnosis, it is very important to improve the vigilance of AIDS in children. In this paper, the clinical data of 3 children with AIDS were analyzed.

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Above to friends about children in the early stage of AIDS will appear what symptoms of this problem, and hope to bring help to the majority of parents and friends, the occurrence of AIDS can be said to have brought certain harm to our lives, so we must attach great importance to the occurrence of AIDS, timely treatment.