It can be treated by antidiarrheals. Weight Loss Weight loss is caused by an increase in the metabolic rate of the body or how fast the body burns calories for fuel, which results in a decrease of weight. This can happen due to many factors such as opportunistic infections, fever, or the HIV virus itself. Fever Fever is very common among HIV infected individuals. It has many different origins including the HIV virus itself and other opportunistic infections.
Fever can occur in both in the early and late stages.
In later stages, it is often accompanied by night sweats and chills, which indicate that the body may be trying to fend off some type of opportunistic infection. Fatigue Fatigue is a very common complaint amongst 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.