AIDS patients may have red dots on the back of their hands because AIDS patients may have skin and mucous membrane lesions that can be categorized into infectious skin damage and non-infectious skin damage; however, red dots on the back of the hands are not necessarily AIDS.
1. It is possible to have small red dots with AIDS:
(1) Infectious skin damage: for example, herpes zoster, herpes simplex, fungal infections, bacterial infections in the body may cause red dots on the back of the hands.
(2) Non-infectious skin damage: for example, photosensitive dermatitis, atopic dermatitis, seborrheic dermatitis on the back of the hand can also lead to the symptoms of red spots on the back of the hand.
2. red dots on the back of the hand is not necessarily the case of AIDS: itself skin allergic purpura, contact dermatitis, eczema, malassezia folliculitis and other diseases, can also lead to the back of the hand with small red dots of symptoms.
Because AIDS is an immunodeficiency disease, so the simple back of the hand with red dot symptoms, does not have the specificity, not infected with AIDS, a number of diseases may also lead to the back of the hand with red dots, so simple from the back of the hand with red dots of the symptom, and not be able to determine what is the cause of the problem, you should go to the hospital in time for further examination, to clarify the cause of the disease, standardize the treatment.