Weight loss and diet plan for a healthy lifestyle.

Eating well helps your immune system, provides energy, and prevents muscle loss. People with HIV infection are beset with a variety of conditions that make eating difficult.     In general, people with HIV infection should be careful about their nutrition. Remember the four basic food groups: every day, you should have two to four servings of milk or milk products, meat or meat substitutes, fruits and vegetables, and cereals and starches. For more specific advice, ask a registered dietitian. (A registered dietitian is usually trained and licensed in nutrition and problems of nutrition; nutritionists need not be either trained or licensed.) Registered dietitians can be found at hospitals, clinics, and county health departments, and in private practice.     Dietitians often advise people with HIV infection to be careful of infections by microbes like salmonella that live in perishable food. These infections occur only rarely in people with HIV infection. If you want to be extra cautious, however, the microbes’ growth can be inhibited by very hot and very cold temperatures, and by cleanliness. Keep hot foods hot: cook at 165 degrees F to 212 degrees F, keep warm at 140 degrees F to 165 degrees F. Keep cold foods cold: refrigerate at 40 degrees F, freeze at 0 degrees F. Keep everything clean: wash fresh fruit and vegetables; use cutting boards of plastic, not of wood; and wash the cutting boards. Do not eat moldy food. Do not eat rare meat, raw fish, or raw meat, and do not drink unpasteurized milk. Thaw meat in the refrigerator, not at room temperature. Do not eat raw eggs; cook eggs thoroughly.*242\191\2*

What to do when you feel well     What to do when you feel sick     Lung problems     Skin problems     Mouth problems     Problems of the digestive system     Eye problems     Head and nerve problems     Problems affecting the whole     HIV infection affects virtually every part of the body. The virus’s effect is either direct or indirect, through opportunistic infections. Moreover, its effects, both direct and indirect, resemble symptoms of other diseases. As a result, people easily become confused and worried: Which symptoms should I see the doctor about? Which should I ignore? Which result from HIV infection and which are the normal flus and headaches everyone has? How are the conditions diagnosed? What are the usual treatments? What are the side effects of the treatments? For those who feel well, there is a separate question: What can I do to maintain good health?     This article, describes the different: conditions that accompany HIV infection. Unlike the earlier article, the purpose of this article is to provide guidelines for the medical care of a person with HIV infection. The article is divided into two parts. The first part discusses what to do to maintain good health when you feel well. The second part discusses the medical complications of HIV infection: the symptoms for which people should see a physician, the most likely diagnosis of those symptoms, the tests that establish the diagnosis, and the best treatment. The second part of the article is organized first by which parts of the body the particular condition affects, then by what symptoms people notice. So someone worried about a red rash needs to go to the section on skin problems, and look up red rashes.
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