HIV is an acquired immunodeficiency virus, which can attack human immune cells and make the body lose the resistance to external viruses. After losing immunity, the human body will be infected with various diseases and eventually lead to death. Infected with AIDS will appear a variety of symptoms, eczema is one of them, so AIDS caused eczema and ordinary eczema how to distinguish? Today, let's talk about how to distinguish eczema and AIDS from three aspects.
1、 Distinguish from history
Eczema is a common skin disease, belongs to inflammatory disease, patients with persistent and recurrent rash, the main symptoms of red, edema, itching, and can also be accompanied by blisters, rupture, bleeding, scab and other symptoms. The distinction between AIDS and eczema can start from whether the patients have high-risk behaviors. If the patients have dirty sexual contact, unsafe blood use, intravenous drug abuse and other behaviors, then patients need to pay attention to the possible symptoms of AIDS. On the contrary, if there is no high-risk behavior, then the patient has common Eczema.
2、 Distinguish from the etiology
Eczema is more symmetrical distribution, often accompanied by severe itching, exudative tendency and repeated attacks, long-term healing. Eczema is generally caused by allergies, with the patient's own constitution has a certain relationship, for example, often exposed to some irritant substances, but usually has nothing to do with virus infection. AIDS is an infectious disease, is transmitted through sexual contact, blood contact, mother to child transmission, now the vast majority of AIDS patients are sexually transmitted, if high-risk behavior after discomfort symptoms, need to consider whether infected with AIDS.
3、 Distinguish from the symptoms
Eczema caused by AIDS is common in the neck, chest, back, limbs, face and so on, is generally a small dark plaque, slightly raised. With the development of eczema, there are swollen nuclei under the skin, which can cause pain when pressing, and appear in pieces when severe. AIDS patients in eczema at the same time, often accompanied by other symptoms, such as fever, fatigue, sore throat and other manifestations. If only eczema alone, the body does not have other symptoms of discomfort, that is common Eczema. On the contrary, eczema and other symptoms, and recently had a high-risk behavior, you should be careful, may be AIDS.
The above from the history, etiology, symptoms were differentiated, but for ordinary people, or a little difficult, the most direct way is to do blood tests. Detection of HIV antibody in the blood is HIV infection, which is the most effective and accurate means to identify eczema and AIDS.