Symptoms that may appear after 5 years of HIV infection include: HIV infection-related symptoms, various opportunistic infection symptoms, skin and mucous membrane symptoms, and rare malignant tumor symptoms.
1. HIV infection-related symptoms: including persistent fever, night sweats, weight loss, abdominal pain and diarrhea, generalized lymph node swelling, memory loss, apathy, dizziness and headache.
2. Symptoms of various opportunistic infections: AIDS patients often have respiratory tract opportunistic infections, such as sporotrichosis pneumonia, patients show long-term persistent cough, fever, cyanosis, and conventional anti-infective treatment is ineffective.
In addition, digestive tract opportunistic infections are also very common, such as Candida albicans infection, various bacteria and fungi caused by enteritis. Patients manifest abdominal pain, diarrhea, perianal infection, oral ulcers and so on.
3. Skin and mucous membrane manifestations: AIDS patients will have a series of skin and mucous membrane manifestations due to opportunistic infections, such as thrush, recurrent oral ulcers, white patches of tongue hairs, herpes zoster, fungal dermatitis, onychomycosis and so on.
4. Rare tumor symptoms: Kaposi’s sarcoma is a malignant tumor that occurs in AIDS patients, but it is rare in normal people. Kaposi’s sarcoma can invade the skin and oral mucosa, manifesting as purplish-red infiltrating nodules, which can be fused with each other, and the surface can be ulcerated and spread to the surrounding tissues.
If you find the above suspicious symptoms and suspect that you have AIDS, it is recommended that you go to a specialized infectious disease hospital as soon as possible to get a clear diagnosis in time, and have your condition evaluated by a professional doctor and then treated accordingly.