Living with HIV/Aids ? Essential Information for a Better Quality of Life

Living with HIV/Aids ? Essential Information for a Better Quality of Life

HIV/Aids is an Immune System Disorder in which the body’s ability to defend itself against infections, is greatly diminished.  HIV is spread primarily through sexual or blood-to-blood contact.  To put this simply, in layman’s terms, the HIV virus enters the bloodstream and attaches itself to the service of a white blood cell (the CD4 cell’s receptors).  The virus then changes its genetic information into that of the white blood cell.  The virus cannot be recognized by other white blood cells and is, over time, able to replicate itself into hundreds of HIV viruses.  When the HIV virus has used the cellular material of the white blood cell, this breaks open and the new virus can, and does, spread through the bloodstream.

A person infected with HIV can go through five stages of the disease:
 1.  Primary HIV infection stage
 2.  A symptomatic latent phase
 3.  Minor symptomatic phase
 4.  Major symptomatic phase
 5.  AIDS defining conditions; the severe symptomatic stage.

Symptoms of  Stage 1 are:
• Sore throat, headache, mild fever, fatigue, muscle and joint pains, swelling of the lymph nodes, rash and mouth ulcerations.  The CD4 cell count is approx. 800-1200 cells/mm3.

Symptoms of  Stage 2 are:
• No symptoms occur as this is the latent stage.  The CD4 cell count is between 500 and 800 cells

Symptoms of  Stage 3 are:
• Swelling of the lymph nodes/glands in the neck, armpits and groin.
• Occasional fevers, recurrent chest infections.
• Shingles, skin infections and rashes.
• Recurrent mouth ulcers
• Weight loss up to 10% of the person’s usual body weight.
• Prolonged, unexplained fatigue.
                The CD4 count is between 350 and 500 cells

Symptoms of  Stage 4 are:
• Persistent and recurrent oral and vaginal Candida infections (thrush)
• Recurrent herpes infections eg cold sores
• Recurrent shingles infections (herpes zoster)
• Recurrent bacterial skin infections and skin rashes
• Fever that lasts for more than a month, night sweats
• Chronic diarrhea that lasts for more than a month
• Significant and unexplained weight loss
• Abdominal discomfort, headaches
• Thickened white patches on inside of the tongue
• Persistent cough and reactivation of TB
• Opportunistic diseases of various kinds
                 The CD4 count is between 150 and 350 cells

Symptoms of  Stage 5 are:
• Continuous diarrhea, nausea and vomiting causing weight loss.
• Persistent recurrent vaginal candidiasis.
• Cold Sores and oral thrush
• Severe and recurrent skin infections
• Respiratory infections causing persistent cough, chest pain and fever.
• Pneumonia
• Weigh loss, tiredness
• Severe shingles
• Body pains, numbness or ‘pins and needles’
• Memory loss, poor concentration, headaches or confusion.
• Cryptococcal meningitis, presenting with fever, headache, stiffness of the neck, mental state change
• Infection causing brain damage
• Painless reddish brown swelling on the skin and mucous membranes
• TB
• Other sexual transmitted diseases (STD)
                The CD4 cell count is below 200 cells.

The three main modes/causes of infection are:
1. Unprotected sexual intercourse with an HIV infected person
2. Infection through contaminated blood or blood products
3. Mother – child transmission of HIV
                      via the placenta
                      during childbirth  OR
                      through breastfeeding.

All these symptoms can be confused with many other illnesses, so the only way to be sure that you have, or have not, got AIDS is to be tested.  If you are positive, then you can make a major contribution to your survival and quality of life by getting into an early treatment program in which Immune Enhancement is encouraged.

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