Diseases and Symptoms Flashcards
Syphilis
Symptoms:
- Chancre (open wound)
- Rash
- Cardiovascular, Gummas, Neurosyphilis
HRG:
Homosexual men, people who have sex for drugs or money.
Lyme Disease
Symptoms:
1. EM rash (painless, no itching, bullseye) 2. heart arrhythmia, nero - facial paralysis, meningitis
HRG: outdoorsy people
Leptospirosis
Symptoms:
Kidney & Liver damage, + subclinical
HRG:
Occupational
Pseudomonas
HRG:
Nosocomial, Cystic Fibrosis, IV Drug users
Legoinnaire’s Disease (pneumonia)
HRG:
Elderly/Smokers
Symptoms:
high fever, chills, coughing
Brucellosis
HRG:
occupational, ingestion
Symptoms:
Resp failure, enlarged organs (liver, spleen, lymph nodes)
Pertussis (Whooping Cough)
HRG:
unvaccinated under 1 year old
Symptoms:
1-2 weeks: cold like.
1-6 weeks: acute violent cough w/ w/out vomiting.
100 days: long convalescent cough
Gonorrhea, Urethritis
HRG:
multiple sexual partners
Symptoms:
Men - local, pain/pus drip.
Women - cryptic symptoms, scarring, PID, sterility, ectopic preg
Meningitis
Symptoms:
violent inflammation of brain, nausea, vomiting, confusion, drowsy, photophobia, coma
Peptic Ulcer Disease, Gastric Cancer
Symptoms:
Pain, Bloody Diarrhea
Gastroenteritis
HRG:
young, old, immunodeficient.
Symptoms:
Diarrhea (watery, sticky, bloody), Abdominal Pain, Fever,
RARE: Gillian Barre Syndrom (flaccid paralysis starting at foot and moving up)
Cholera
Symptoms:
Severe diarrhea for 1 week, NO fever, dehydration, organ failure, muscle cramps, hypoglycemia arrhythmia, acidosis (increases urin pH) shock and death
UTI
Sympotms:
Urinate frequently, painful burning
Hemorrhagic Colitis, Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome
HRG:
the usual
Symptoms:
HC - bloody diarrhea, severe pain, no fever HUS - watery diarrhea, bloody, severe pain, vomiting, hemorrhaging, blood in urine (dialysis), hypoglycemia, neurological.
Diarrhea or Traveler’s Disease
Symptoms:
Watery Diarrhea, cramps, headache
Shigella HUS - hemolytic uritic syndrome
Symptoms:
same symptoms as EHEC + blood, pus, mucus in stools
Shigellosis (sever dysentery)
Symptoms:
1st fever, then cramps, dysentery, blood/pus. in children, freq begins with convulsions
Salmonellosis
HRG: babies to age 5
Symptoms:
mild fever, diarrhea w/ w/out blood, nausea, vomiting. occasionally sepsis.
Typhoid Fever
Symptoms:
NO diarrhea, high fever, headache, death from necrotizing hemorrhaging (can perforate intestines), “Rose Spots” on abdomen and trunk, Multi Organ Dysfunction - wherever it goes.
Bacterial Vaginosis
Symptoms:
mild, fish smell, thin frothy discharge, NO inflammation or pain.
Bacteroides fragilis
Symptoms:
vaginal infections… other places
Peridontal disease, trench mouth, ulcerating gingivitis
Symptoms:
high amount of blood clots
rocky mountain spotted fever
Symptoms:
fever, then spotted rash (pink flat, to red raised) (90%)
Non Gonococcal Urethritis
Symptoms:
mild gonorrhea symptoms.
trachoma (in the eyes)
Symptoms:
nodules, blindness
acute urethral syndrom, Ureaplasma urealyticum
Symptoms:
Male infertility (decreases sperm motility)
Women - preterm labor, spontaneous abortions
Pseudomembranous Colitis
Symptoms:
Explosive Diarrhea
Toxic Megacolon
Symptoms: enlarged colon (football sized), large sections of colon sluffed off, hemorrhaging
Gas Gangrene
HRG:
people with poor circulation. Diabetics, elderly, illegal abortions
Symptoms:
necrosis to muscle with gas production in tissue (can hear it). foul odor, fever, massive tissue destruction. If in blood - BP down, shock, renal failure.
Botulism and Infant Botulism
Symptoms: Flaccid Paralysis (descending) first occular, double vision, dilated pupils, blurred vision. difficulty swallowing, ab pain, death from resp. failure. Infant - flaccid baby syndrome. constipation, limp neck.
Tetanus (lockjaw), Neonatal tetanus.
HRG:
unvaccinated w/ deep puncture wound, or unvaccinated mothers.
Symptoms:
(Tetany) locked jaw (massater muscle), descending until respiratory failure, back arches, face tightens, can break bones, pain, exhaustion
Anthrax - cutaneous, intestinal, pulmonary
Symptoms:
Cutaneous - papule, blister, red, black, scab, heals (rarely systemic)
Intestinal - vomiting, intestinal pain, bleeding, death
Pulmonary - toxemia - hemorrhage, edema, necrosis. meningitis - death. early phase - mild, fever, no runny nose, no nasal congestion. late phase - death (fulmitating, fever, labored breathing, chest pain, bp down). Enough toxins made. no survivors
Galloping Pneumonia
Symptoms:
strep toxic shock - in blood. High fever, severe pain, BP down, multi organ failure
Necrotizing Fasciitis
Symptoms:
M-1 protein (attaches easier), necrosis - gangrene (3-4 days). red, tender, swollen skin with lesions, pain. occlude blood vessels, after 4 days necrosis.
Rheumatic Fever
Symptoms:
damages heart/joints, fever, arthritis
Pneumococcal Pneumonia
HRG:
unvaccinated children, elderly, immunodeficient
Symptoms: lungs - fever, cough with rusty sputum
blood - hemorrhagic complications, rash, sepsis
meningitis - fever, STIFF NECK
Puerperal Fever in Newborn
HRG:
premature labor, membranes rupture, multiple births, mother has history of group B
Symptoms:
meningitis, carditis, shock
Staph Colonize infections
Symptoms: 1. no symptoms. 2. Local, recurring (boil, colonizing implants - joints, valves, IV, pacemaker). - infects the fibronectin 3. Sepsis MRSA, VISA, VRSA
Food Poison
Symptoms:
nausea, vomiting (Emetic)
Toxic Shock Syndrome
Symptoms:
3 or more organ systems involved
high fever, rash (sunburn-like), multi organ involvement. - skin peels, loose nails, DIC, renal failure
Tuberculosis (TB)
HRG:
1 out of 10 get disease if infected. HIV+, substance abuse, immunodeficient, HCW, homeless.
Symptoms: persistant cough (maybe bloody), fever, chest pain, fatigue, wt. loss, short of breath. can get to brain and bones.
Listeriosis (meningitis in unborn child, or cardiovascular abnormalities)
HRG:
Elderly, Immunodeficient, unborn (mother subclinical) high affinity for placenta and fetal brain
Symptoms:
headache, fever, fatigue, vomit, septicemia
Diphtheria
HRG:
unvaccinated, 4 years old
Symptoms:
sore throat, difficulty breathing, swollen neck
