Symptoms in Infants

• Some infants will not present symptoms of HIV. Those that do may have delayed growth and development, swollen lymph nodes as well as a swollen abdomen, diarrhea, pneumonia and thrush, a yeast infection of the mouth.
  
  

Children-Mild

• HIV disease in children can be mild, moderate or severe. Mild symptoms include swelling of the lymph nodes and parotid gland as well as the abdomen, recurring sinus and ear infections and skin rash.
  
  

Children-Moderate

• Moderate symptoms of HIV in children include inflammation of lung tissues and the liver, thrush, persistent diarrhea and fever, severe chickenpox infection and kidney disease.
  
  

Children-Severe

• Severe symptoms of HIV disease in children include multiple serious bacterial infections, pneumocystis pneumonia, systemic yeast infection, encephalopathy and cancers.
  
  

Symptoms in Adolescents

• Symptoms in adolescents may be like those of children or adults, depending on when the virus was contracted. Most HIV-positive adolescents are exposed to the illness at an older age through sexual intercourse, unlike younger children, who almost always contract the virus from their mother during pregnancy, childbirth or breastfeeding.