In fact a rash is one of the most common side effects of antiretroviral arv medications used to treat hiv.
Arv skin rash.
A rash is common during the course of an hiv infection and the causes can be as varied as the rashes themselves many people will use the term hiv rash to describe a cutaneous skin outbreak that occurs as a result of a new infection.
Arv naive with a higher cd4 count 250 cells mm 3 in women.
Occurs in 4 of patients on average with a range of 2 5 to 11.
Antiviral or antiretroviral medications may help you feel better.
400 cells mm 3 in men.
Flu like symptoms including nausea vomiting myalgia fatigue fever abdominal pain and jaundice with or without skin rash that may progress to hepatic failure with encephalopathy.
Other rashes can cause serious damage to the skin causing them to be life threatening.
Another possible cause of a rash that develops when someone has hiv is a reaction to a medication.
Treatment of hiv related skin rashes depends on the cause.
One rare but potentially serious skin rash that can develop through the use of antiretroviral drugs is.
Rashes that develop due to hiv medications are usually not serious.
Learn about over 20 of them here from types of dermatitis to infections such as shingles and warts.