What happens after you get HIV and AIDS?

Answer 1

First people catch the HIV virus. Most people do not feel anything or have anything after they catch that particular virus. It takes about six months before it shows up on a blood test. After a few years a person starts getting thinner and thinner. A person needs to maintain his or her weight. A person starts getting infections more often. It is harder and harder to get over infections. If there is any possibility that anyone in the vicinity has tuberculosis, then instead of getting a skin test, a person with HIV will need an X-Ray to diagnosis it. The constant sickness sets in and the disease becomes AIDS. Pneumonia comes. Cancer comes. Then comes death.

All this comes as a result of a rather poorly understood breakdown of the victim's immune system. At this time, it's irreversable but can be held off for a very long time if caught early on in it's cycle.

Answer 2

HIV (Human Immuno-deficiency Virus) is a virus which can quickly lead to AIDS (Aquired Immuno-deficiency Syndrome).

With the correct medication, known as anti-retrovirals, a sufferers life-span can be considerably lengthened. After developing AIDS, treatment with anti-retroviral medication can increase the victims life-span to over 5 years.

Without treatment, every 9 out of 10 people will aquire AIDS within 10-15 years or sooner, after which death can occur usually within a year.

It does this by attacking the helper T-cells, macrophages and dentritic cells which all contribute to a healthy immune system to protect the body from disease and infection. It becomes AIDS once the immune system is no longer capable of protecting the body. Basically, the person is killed by opportunistic viruses and bacteria that take advantage of the lack of resistance by the body.

Symptoms include nausea and vomiting, bruising, enlargement of the liver and spleen, myalgia, skin rashes, pharyngitus, headache and neuropathy, fever, weight loss, lymphadenopathy, sores in the esophagus and sores and thrush in the mouth.

It is always better to be diagnosed sooner rather than later.

More information here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV

Answer 3

What HIV does is it destroys your immune system. It does this systematically by killing of your CD4 T cells. CD4 T cells are known as helper T cells because they activate your B cells and cytotoxic CD8 T cells, which are vital to your adaptive immune system. A normal persons CD4 count is between 500-1500. Once it falls below 200, you are considered to have AIDS. At this point your immune system is so dysfunctional it cannot give you the proper protection against the everyday bugs and fungal infections that you encounter. Your immunocompromised state makes you susceptible to many different infections from pneumonia to meningitis. However, this process takes years to develop and with anti-viral drugs on the current market (2012), it can be delayed indefinitely.

Answer 4

A person who has HIV will be treated with a varity of drugs so that the disease does not got into Aids.

Answer 5

i believe that once a person has aid him/her will become weaker

Answer 6

the defence of your body slowes down because of the virus

Answer 7

they die..............

Answer 8

you get cancer