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It is estimated that between 15% and 30% of all primary care consultations are for medically unexplained symptoms. [4] A large Canadian community survey revealed that the most common medically unexplained symptoms are musculoskeletal pain, ear, nose, and throat symptoms, abdominal pain and gastrointestinal symptoms, fatigue, and dizziness. [4]
List of medical symptoms. Medical symptoms refer to the manifestations or indications of a disease or condition, perceived and complained about by the patient. [1] [2] Patients observe these symptoms and seek medical advice from healthcare professionals.
Morgellons is a self-diagnosed, unexplained skin condition in which individuals have sores that they believe contain some kind of fibers. [30] [31] [32] Morgellons is poorly characterized but the general medical consensus is that it is a form of delusional parasitosis. [33]
Those symptoms warrant a trip to the emergency department, Dr. Quinlan says. Malaria is another example. This condition can make people feel chilly and shivering one minute and hot and sweaty the ...
Medically unexplained physical symptoms; Mesoamerican nephropathy; Migraine; Multiple chemical sensitivity; Multiple sclerosis; Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in ...
This is an alphabetically sorted list of medical syndromes. 1p36 deletion syndrome; 1q21.1 deletion syndrome ... Drug reaction with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms ...
An example of such a diagnosis is "fever of unknown origin": to explain the cause of elevated temperature the most common causes of unexplained fever (infection, neoplasm, or collagen vascular disease) must be ruled out. Other examples include: Fibromyalgia [9] Adult-onset Still's disease [10] Behçet's disease [11] Bell's palsy [12]
Signs and symptoms are also applied to physiological states outside the context of disease, as for example when referring to the signs and symptoms of pregnancy, or the symptoms of dehydration. Sometimes a disease may be present without showing any signs or symptoms when it is known as being asymptomatic . [ 13 ]