The Affect of AIDS on Other Bodily Systems

One of the most common opportunistic infections is called Toxoplasmosis. Toxoplasmosis lives inside another living organism and takes away all the nutrients from the living organism. This could get into your body when breathing in dust and affects both man and animals worldwide. 50% of the population has been infected by toxoplasmosis up to this point. the most common illness that toxoplasmosis causes is the infection of the brain and can lead to a coma or even death. The risk of getting Toxoplasmosis is when your CD4 count is below 100. Some common symptoms of toxoplasmosis include fever, headachs, disorientation, personality changes, tremor and seizures. When testing if you have toxoplasmosis if the result shows as possitive it does not neceseraly mean that you have this infection. Brain scaning is also one way to diagnose if you have toxoplasmosis.Toxoplasmosis is a seriour opprtunistic infection and could avoid getting it by not eating undercooked meat or fish. Toxoplasmosis affects the central nervous system in patients that have AIDS.