What is AIDS?
AIDS (or Acquired immune deficiency syndrome) is a detrimental STD or sexually transmitted disease that harms the infected individual's immune system and lowers its effectiveness to dangerous, sometimes lethal levels. It is caused most regularly by its first stage known as HIV or human immunodeficiency virus.
AIDS Symptoms
One of the most common AIDS symptoms is that the individual will become more susceptible to opportunistic diseases caused by commonly encountered germs; the individual will effectively get sick more easily and more frequently. Apart from that, early symptoms may also include fever, sore throat, headache, rashes, and possibly diarrhea. In the early stages diarrhea is relatively rare, only in more extreme cases of early AIDS might someone get diarrhea.
This might occur if the infected individual already had current damage to the immune system prior to contriving AIDS. If this is the case, the first and second stages of symptoms might bleed together. It is common in those infected with AIDS that the lymph nodes will also become swollen. Lymph nodes are basically the apparatuses that are the most vital in keeping the immune system running smoothly. They are found all over the body. Some later symptoms may include weight loss, coughing and shortness of breath. By the time that AIDS has fully infiltrated and developed in an infected person's immune system, some final symptoms may present themselves such as soaking night sweats, dry cough, blurred or distorted vision, extreme headaches, chronic diarrhea, shaking chills and high fever.
In some more extreme cases such as when the immune system was damaged before AIDS was contracted, other later symptoms might include trouble walking, heavy shortness of breath, ear infections, and pneumonia. These symptoms are not all inclusive as many other symptoms might occur in different cases. These symptoms are the most common symptoms of AIDS.