Week 4 - Otitis Media, Pharyngitis, Coughs Flashcards

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Otitis Media - Baryta muriaticum

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  • Copious, fetid, offensive ear discharge - like rotten cheese
  • Drinking water in sips ameliorates
  • Noises in ear reverberating
  • Swelling about the glands of the ear
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Otitis Media - Belladonna

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  • Ear sensitive to open air
  • Right ear has earwax
  • Redness of the tympanum
  • Acute middle ear inflammation
  • Own voice reverberates in ear
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Otitis Media - Calc carb

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  • Eczema behind the ears
  • Noises in the ear like a cat spitting
  • Reports noises in the ear
  • Swallowing aggravates squashing noises in ear
  • Lots of anxieties
  • Horrible visions on closing the eyes
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Otitis Media - Chamomilla

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  • Ear is sensitive to open air
  • Noises in ear as of water rushing
  • Ear sensitive to wind
  • Aversion to being touched or approached
  • Demanding cry
  • Abusive with pain
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Otitis Media - Hepar sulph

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  • Abscess in the meatus
  • Ear sensitive to open air
  • Ear eruptions sensitive to touch
  • Cold applications/touch aggravates ear pain
  • Hypertrophy of tonsils impairs hearing
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Otitis Media - Kali bichromicum

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  • Yellow discharge from the ear
  • Left stitching ear pain
  • Stitching ear pain during headache
  • Stitching ear pain extending to neck
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Otitis Media - Lachesis

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  • Ear sensitive to open air
  • Bloody discharge from the ear
  • Cracking noises in the ear as if the ear drum had burst during sleep
  • Ulcerations in lobes in holes of earrings
  • Complaining of their disease
  • Coquettish in children
  • Lamenting about his sickness
  • Difficult protrusion of tongue, catching on teeth
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Otitis Media - Lycopodium

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  • Ichorous/offensive/purulent ear discharge
  • Purulent eruptions
  • Scurfy meatus
  • Rush of blood to the right ear
  • Impaired hearing accompanied by purulent discharge from the ear
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Pharyngitis and Tonsilitis - Apis

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  • Glazed appearance of the throat
  • Throat pain swallowing, stinging when not swallowing
  • Angioedema of throat
  • Heat, swelling, burning/stinging pain that is worse heat and better cold applications
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Pharyngitis and Tonsilitis - Belladonna

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  • Ascending sensation of drinks
  • Chocking during sleep, aggravated on going to sleep
  • Rising sensation of a lump in the throat
  • Redness in spots on throat
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Pharyngitis and Tonsilitis - Chamomilla

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  • Angry, demanding cry
  • Tantrums
  • Heat on one side of cheeks
  • Throat pain during perspiration
  • Throat spasms after anger
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Pharyngitis and Tonsilitis - Mercurius solubilis

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  • Cracking in throat
  • Throat crawling as if a worm were squirming in it
  • Copper-colored throat
  • Dryness accompanied by salivation in the anterior part of the mouth
  • Throat pain as if from an apple core
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Pharyngitis and Tonsilitis - Sabadilla

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  • Complaints of the throat on left extending to right
  • Sensation of skin hanging loose in throat and they must swallow over it
  • Delusion that body is deformed
  • Delusion disease of the throat is fatal
  • Delusion she is pregnant
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Pharyngitis and Tonsilitis - Silicea

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  • Lifting aggravates throat
  • Sensation of a hair in the throat
  • Swallowing difficult - can swallow fluids, but gags on solid food
  • Not arguing, despite having firm convictions and keeping them
  • Sensitive to steel points directed at her
  • Head sensitive to brushing hair, to hat
  • Hypopyon
  • Inflammation of lids/ducts in newborns
  • Nausea after vaccination
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Cough - Aconite

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  • Illness comes on very suddenly, 1st stages
  • Anxiety during cough
  • Frightened easily during cough
  • Death feels imminent
  • Cough from dry cold wind
  • Loud dry barking cough worse cold dry air
  • Cough during dry fever
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Cough - Bryonia alba

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  • Must hold head or chest during cough
  • Painful cough
  • Must sit up with cough
  • Worse least motion, breathing deeply
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Cough - Causticum

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  • Passes urine with cough
  • Cold drinks ameliorate
  • Wet weather ameliorates
  • Sensations as if they cannot cough deep enough to raise mucus
  • Hissing cough
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Cough - Hepar sulph

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  • Chilly patients that are worse cold, uncovering, drafts, cold drinks and food, single part becoming cold
  • Better warm
  • Weeping before and/or during cough
  • Stitching pain in throat during cough
  • Grasping of larynx during cough
  • Cough from evening until midnight
  • Closing eyes at night excites the cough
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Cough - Ipecacuanha

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  • Headache as from a blow during cough
  • Sneeze before cough
  • Cyanosis of face during cough
  • Nausea during cough
  • Loathing of food during cough
  • Suffocative cough with retching and nausea
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Cough - Squilla maritima

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  • Lachrymation, spurting urination during cough
  • Sneezing with cough
  • Rubbing face and eyes with fists during cough
  • Cough dry in evening and loose in morning
  • Expectoration in morning only
  • Cough sudden and violent in the morning