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On the other hand, a "normal" temperature may be a fever, if it is unusually high for that person; for example, medically frail elderly people have a decreased ability to generate body heat, so a "normal" temperature of 37.3 °C (99.1 °F) may represent a clinically significant fever. [37] [39]
[1] [10] Other symptoms may include fever, abdominal pain, and a feeling of incomplete defecation. [2] [6] [11] Complications may include dehydration. [3] The cause of dysentery is usually the bacteria from genus Shigella, in which case it is known as shigellosis, or the amoeba Entamoeba histolytica; then it is called amoebiasis. [1]
Symptoms usually develop 10–12 days after exposure to an infected person and last 7–10 days. [7] [8] Initial symptoms typically include fever, often greater than 40 °C (104 °F), cough, runny nose, and inflamed eyes. [3] [4] Small white spots known as Koplik's spots may form inside the mouth two or three days after the start of symptoms. [4]
Norovirus is the most common cause of viral diarrhea in adults, [31] but rotavirus is the most common cause in children under five years old. [32] Adenovirus types 40 and 41, [ 33 ] and astroviruses cause a significant number of infections. [ 34 ]
In children, ferritin levels above 10000 μg/L are very sensitive and specific for the diagnosis of HLH, [17] however, the diagnostic utility for ferritin is less for adult HLH patients. [18] The serum fibrinogen level is usually low and the D-dimer level is elevated. [citation needed] The sphingomyelinase is elevated. [19]
Adults with malaria tend to experience chills and fever—classically in periodic intense bouts lasting around six hours, followed by a period of sweating and fever relief—as well as headache, fatigue, abdominal discomfort, and muscle pain. [35] Children tend to have more general symptoms: fever, cough, vomiting, and diarrhea. [35]
[324] [325] Children are likely to have milder symptoms and are at lower risk of severe disease than adults. [326] The CDC reports that in the US roughly a third of hospitalised children were admitted to the ICU, [ 327 ] while a European multinational study of hospitalised children from June 2020, found that about 8% of children admitted to a ...
Obesity and BMI An obese male with a body mass index of 53 kg/m 2: weight 182 kg (400 lb), height 185 cm (6 ft 1 in). Obesity classification is a ranking of obesity, the medical condition in which excess body fat has accumulated to the extent that it has an adverse effect on health. [1]