HIV in babies — How long does it take to show symptoms

With the increasing spread of AIDS, the number of children who have AIDS has gradually increased in recent years. Children's immunity is much lower than that of adults, and the incubation period of AIDS is tough to find symptoms. Therefore the typical symptoms of AIDS will appear earlier.

Once the disease occurs, the degree of harm is even higher than that of adults. Consequently, society has repeatedly stressed that babies’ HIV AIDS symptoms should receive more care during the incubation period. Now let’s look at the babies’ AIDS incubation period symptoms do a more detailed introduction.

According to recent reports, it is generally accepting that adults' incubation period is 8–9 years, and that of babies’ incubation period is 1–2 years on average. The incubation period of AIDS in a baby is for girls before 12 and boys before the age of 14. The incubation period of a baby with AIDS is short.

At this time, a susceptible method is used to detect the virus's wake-up in the plasma of HIV infected people. It can predict the incidence rate within five years. The infected person may not have any clinical symptoms. Still, the incubation period is not static, not even a sustained period. The virus continues to reproduce and has a strong destructive effect.

What is this incubation period of HIV in babies?

The incubation period refers to the time from the beginning of HIV infection to the emergence of clinical symptoms and signs of AIDS. The incubation period of AIDS is now considered to be 2–10 years. The average is about seven years. Because of the weak physical resistance of babies with HIV AIDS, The incubation period of HIV AIDS in babies is shorter than that in adults. And that incubation period depends on the quality of the disease.

The incubation period of HIV infection in babies is short, and the mortality rate within one year is 21.9%.
The clinical manifestations were 73.3% growth and development backward.

The most common initial conditions of AIDS

• Respiratory tract infection
• Oral fungal infection
• Recurrent diarrhea
• Long-term intermittent fever
• Hepatosplenomegaly
• Nervous system symptoms
• Superficial lymph
• Skin rash

The leading causes of death were Pneumocystis carinii infection and severe bacterial infection.

Many people infected with HIV do not have any symptoms during the incubation period. But there are also some people in the early stage of virus replication (2–4 weeks after infection, between five days and three months). That can occur non-specific acute HIV infection syndrome, which is like mononucleosis.

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Symptoms of acute HIV/AIDS

• Fever
• Night sweats
• Dizziness
• Weakness
• Sore throat
• Discomfort
• Myalgia
• Headache
• Arthralgia
• Rash of the trunk
• Diarrhea
• Lymphadenopathy
• Occipital and neck lymph nodes
• Systemic lymphadenopathy (which can last for months or even years)
• Common “cold” symptoms

The symptoms usually disappear after 1–2 weeks, after which the patient will turn to the latent period without symptoms.

I believe that the emergence of babies’ AIDS incubation period symptoms is an unfortunate thing for parents. Babies are the future of the family and the backbone of parents’ spirit. It is sad for babies who have weak resistance and are in the growing period to see AIDS. So they must go to the regular hospital for treatment in time after finding the symptoms. And if they find the signs in the incubation period of AIDS, they must go to the hospital in time for treatment as early as possible.

Experts remind you that at present, the incidence of babies’ HIV/AIDS in the world is still rising. We must help children prevent HIV/AIDS, and we should increase the common sense of babies’ HIV/AIDS incubation period in the current curriculum.