A young man at the HIV clinic tells the nurse how relieved he is that he does not have HIV because he now has no symptoms at all when just a few weeks ago he felt awful. What is the most appropriate nursing response?
a. "Flulike symptoms frequently are mis-diagnosed as HIV."
b. "In the latent stage, the physical symp-toms are reduced, but the HIV is still present in the lymph nodes."
c. "A high antibody count can overwhelm HIV infection in the early stage."
d. "Antiretroviral drugs are very effective in the first stage in reducing symptoms."
B
In the latent stage, the symptoms are reduced as the virus enters the lymph nodes.
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