, to avoid malnutrition, a diet modification is essential. Bowel Disease/Diarrhea*In the HIV-AIDS progression, the stool is usually clear and watery and is accompanied by vomiting and abdominal cramps. At times loose stool contains blood in which case the diarrhea is called dysentery. This condition is correlated to malabsorption since there is villus abnormality and intestinal mucus damage. When intestinal mucosal damage occurs, fungal and bacterial translocations result, increasing the chance of sepsis. “Diarrheal illness occurs in less than 50% of AIDS patients”(Vaghefi, & Castellon-Vogel, 1994,p.2.). Neurological DiseaseThis result in the individual’s central nervous system being affected, so causing the individual to have psychomotor retardation, hence affecting the nutritional status. This neurological disease causes retardation in appetite, impair the individual’s ability to self-feed and alter their metabolic rate.Weight Loss or the “Wasting syndrome”Weight loss is a common hurdle, since over 10% of their usual body weight is progressively deteriorating, along with weakness, depletion of body cell mass, diarrhea, and fever that occur for approximately thirty days. Firstly, weight loss can be connected to the gastrointestinal disorders and insufficient calorie intake and secondly, weight loss is associated with opportunistic infections within the body. The...
