It can also be intermittent in that one day a person may have a regular bowel movement and the next day, have severe diarrhea. It can be treated by antidiarrheals . This can happen due to many factors such as opportunistic infections, fever, or the HIV virus itself. See appetite stumulants as a form of symptomatic treatment. Fever Fever is very common among HIV infected individuals.
Fever can occur in both early and late stages.
In later stages, it often accompanied by night sweats, and chills, indicating that the body may be trying to fend of some type of opportunistic infection. Fatigue Fatigue is a very common complaint among HIV infected individuals. The sources, like that listed with fever are also numerous. As the immune system becomes increasingly compromised, the body is not able to fight off more serious infections that a normal intact immune system could suppress. Some of these infections can be life threatening in a person with AIDS and are usually the cause of death in the AIDS patients.