Symptoms/Complications Flashcards
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Coryza (Common Cold)
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Symptoms: • Watery nasal discharge • Sneezing • Tiredness • Mild pyrexia (fever) • Malaise • Sore nose and throat
Complications: • Sinusitis • Acute bronchitis • Secondary infections (minority) • Otitis media (sore ear)
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Sinusitis
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Symptoms: • Frontal headache, facial pain • Purulent rhinorrhoea • Fever • Acute: 1 week – 1 month • Subacute: 1-3 months • Chronic: >3 months
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Rhinitis
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Symptoms: • Nasal irritation, rhinorrhoea, sneezing • Itchy eyes and ears • Irritated soft palate • Wheeze
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Pharyngitis
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Symptoms:
• Sore throat
• Tonsillar lymph nodes enlargement
• Localised endemics of fever and conjunctivitis
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Laryngotracheobronchitis
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Symptoms: • Hoarseness • Barking cough (croup) • Stridor • Progressive airway obstruction
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Epiglottitis
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Symptoms:
• Severe airflow obstruction
• High fever
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Influenza
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Symptoms: • Abrupt fever • Shivering and aching • Severe headache • Sore throat + dry cough
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Bronchitis
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Symptoms: • Irritating dry cough; becomes productive • Wheeze • Breathlessness • Mild fever
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Pneumonia
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Symptoms: • Fever and rigors • Pleuritic chest pain • Anorexia • Breathlessness • Cough – dry or productive
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COPD
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Symptoms: • Productive cough • Wheeze • Breathlessness • Infective exacerbations
Complications: • Hypertension • Osteoporosis • Weight loss • Cor pulmonale
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Asthma
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Symptoms: • Chest tightness • Wheeze • Dry cough • Breathlessness (worse at night)
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Obstructive Sleep Apnoea
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Symptoms: • Loud snoring • Daytime sleepiness • Unrefreshed/restless sleep • Headache • Large neck and tongue • Small mandible
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Bronchiectasis
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Symptoms: • Productive cough (yellow-green sputum, can become haemoptysis) • Halitosis (bad breath) • Recurrent febrile episodes, malaise • Clubbing • Coarse crackles, pneumonic episodes
Complications: • Pneumonia, pneumothorax • Empyema • Metastatic cerebral abscesses • Life-threatening haemoptysis
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Lung Abscess
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Symptoms: • Persisting pneumonia • Foul sputum • Malaise • Weight loss • Raised inf. markers
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Cystic Fibrosis
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Symptoms: • Recurrent infections • Sinusitis, nasal polyps • Breathlessness • Haemoptysis • Steatorrhoea • Meconium ileus • Malabsorption • Abnormal teenage milestones
