The clinical symptoms of AIDS are diverse. The initial symptoms include cold, flu, general fatigue and weakness, loss of appetite and fever. As the disease worsens, it may lead to Candida albicans infection of the skin and mucous skin, herpes zoster, stagnant blood spots, easy damage to the skin and bleeding after injury, etc. Later on, it gradually invades the internal organs, and persistent fever of unknown origin may appear for 3-4 months.
The full name of AIDS is Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, a fatal chronic infectious disease caused by the human immunodeficiency virus. How to perform self-testing to be able to detect, diagnose and treat early is of considerable importance to prolong life.
Although AIDS screening laboratories and testing sites have been spread throughout the province at all levels of disease control, medical and other institutions, and provide free testing for voluntary counselors, but there are still some people feel that traditional testing is not convenient, especially some people are worried about personal information exposure and discrimination, unwilling to choose to go to a professional laboratory testing, this person if you want to know their infection status, you can choose the method of self-testing: 1. First of all See if you have the following high-risk behaviors: more complicated sex life, gay men, drug use or mixing syringes with others, have been infected with HIV needles or a history of blood products infection, mother is an AIDS patient, etc.
2. If a person with high-risk behavior has two or more of the following conditions, be highly alert: recent weight loss of more than 10%, chronic diarrhea or cough for more than a month, persistent or intermittent fever for more than a month, palpable enlarged lymph nodes, recurrent herpes zoster or chronic disseminated herpes simplex infection, Candida infection in the oropharynx.
3. Routine blood tests may show varying degrees of anemia and a decreased white blood cell count, suggesting a viral infection. Urine protein is seen in routine urine.
4.Go to the hospital for HIV-1 antibody testing. If the result of ELISA assay is positive for two consecutive times, the diagnosis will be confirmed by WB method again.
5.If human immunodeficiency virus can be isolated from blood, single nucleus cells and cerebrospinal fluid, it can be used to determine the infection of AIDS.