Can a general physical examination detect AIDS?

AIDS is a contagious disease that cannot be detected in routine physical examinations. If you want to know whether you are infected with AIDS, you can go to the hospital for a special examination. What are the general clinical symptoms of AIDS? If you experience any of the following conditions, you must see a doctor as soon as possible.

Clinical symptoms of AIDS

1. General symptoms

Persistent fever, weakness, sweating, and enlarged superficial lymph nodes throughout the body. Weight loss can reach more than 10% within three months, and can be as low as 40%. The patient is particularly emaciated.

2. Respiratory symptoms

Long-term cough, chest pain, difficulty breathing, and blood in sputum in severe cases.

3. Digestive tract symptoms

Loss of appetite, loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and blood in the stool in severe cases. Drugs usually used to treat digestive tract infections are ineffective for this type of diarrhea.

4. Nervous system symptoms

Dizziness, headache, slow reaction, intellectual impairment, mental disorder, convulsion, hemiplegia, dementia, etc.

5. Damage to skin and mucous membranes

Diffuse papules, herpes zoster, inflammation and ulcers of the oral and pharyngeal mucosa.

6. Tumor