How to recognize the early HIV symptoms?
The HIV infected victims tend to develop a flu-like illness within a month or two after exposure to the virus. Some of the early HIV symptoms are: • High fever • Sore throat • Headaches • Feeling of tiredness • enlarged lymph glands in neck, armpits and groins All the above stated symptoms are similar to the ordinary infections that occur in our body but actually the onset of the HIV infection and are not the ordinary infections.Infact, even if early HIV symptoms exist, they are seen after a period of 2 weeks to 3 months after unsafe sexual encounters or may be some medical infections. During the period of the early HIV symptoms patients are highly infectious, and the amount of HIV present is large in the genital fluids. Over a period of time the immune system tends to worsen and different types of complications start to develop. It has been observed that for a large number of people, the early symptoms of HIV infection are the enlarged lymph nodes or better known as “swollen glands” (
