HIV Blog – AIDS Help and Advice

HIV infection has four stages. After two to six weeks from contracting the virus, symptoms that resemble the ones of the flu can appear. This way, the infected person can feel nausea, fever, night sweating, fatigue, and altered general state, headaches, muscle pain, etc. There are patients who do not mind these symptoms, or the symptoms simply do not appear. For the correct diagnosis of the HIV AIDS, it is necessary that special tests be conducted. The second phase is where the virus begins to multiply. This phase progress slowly and could last for a number of years. The infected person will not show any physical symptoms of the infection, but their mental and emotional state could get a beating. Those who do not know they are infected will not feel any indications of the infection. The third phase ushers the patient towards the Aids Related Complex or ARC. The symptoms are not going away this time, but instead they will intensify and cause the patient to suffer the effects of acute infection and begin to experience changes in his/her general condition. Thus the patient progresses to the next phase of the infection. Now we come to the final stage of HIV which is now the AIDS phase. By now, the patient’s compromised immune system is still being assaulted by opportunistic infections. Under normal circumstances of a healthy immune system, these infections could be readily resisted. However, as the patient’s immune system continues to deteriorate, so thus the body’s capacity to fight this otherwise common germs and bacteria.

If there is a broken tissue or sore in the mouth or where ever there is a possibility that the body fluids can be exchanged, the potential of HIV/AIDS transmission is likely to be contacted. Oral sex can transmit HIV/AIDS infection both from an infected male to an uninfected female and from an infected female to an uninfected male too. Both semen and vaginal fluid from HIV/AIDS infected persons contain a very large quantities of HIV/AIDS virus. The viral burden in these fluids reflects the amount that is found in the blood {plasma}. If the blood is dried, the virus will be dead, but if is wet, then a chance exist that it could still be active. the risk is very small but rather be safe. Always try and use gloves when you are in the situation where you might be in contact with blood or fluid. HIV/AIDS is very short lived on an inanimate surface. Consider it very infectious in wet fluid than in a dried fluid. There is so much speculation around this issues and there are no absolute answer. If there are open sore in the mouth, the chance does exist that bodily fluids can be exchanged. Saliva can carry the HIV/AIDS virus but enormous amount of saliva has to be present for an infection to occur. The options here is to dry kiss as opposed to the wet kiss but it is very sad that young people miss out of the pleasure of kissing. Kissing provides a good motivation for knowing the HIV/AIDS status of your partner.