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The sign indicates aggravation of the parietal peritoneum by stretching or moving. Positive Blumberg's sign is indicative of peritonitis, [3] which can occur in diseases like appendicitis, and may occur in ulcerative colitis with rebound tenderness in the right lower quadrant.
Bacterial tracheitis is a bacterial infection of the trachea and is capable of producing airway obstruction. [citation needed]One of the most common causes is Staphylococcus aureus and often follows a recent viral upper respiratory infection.
As globus sensation is a symptom, a diagnosis of globus pharyngis is typically a diagnosis of exclusion.If globus sensation is presenting with other symptoms such as pain, swallowing disorders such as aspiration or regurgitation (dysphagia), weight loss, or voice change, [10] an organic cause needs to be investigated, typically with endoscopy.
Dysphagia is distinguished from other symptoms including odynophagia, which is defined as painful swallowing, [8] and globus, which is the sensation of a lump in the throat. A person can have dysphagia without odynophagia (dysfunction without pain), odynophagia without dysphagia (pain without dysfunction) or both together.
Abdominal pain that migrates to the right iliac fossa; Anorexia (loss of appetite) Nausea or vomiting; Tenderness in the right iliac fossa; Rebound tenderness; Fever of 37.3 °C or more; Leukocytosis, or more than 10,000 white blood cells per microliter in the serum; Neutrophilia, or an increase in the percentage of neutrophils in the serum ...
Sensation of a 'lump' in the back of the throat; Throat feels swollen; Discomfort - Lump can often feel quite big and pain is occasional; Symptoms normally worse in the evening; Stress aggravates the symptoms; Saliva is difficult to swallow, yet food is easy to swallow - eating, in fact, often makes the tightness go away for a time
Rebound tenderness (none = 0, light = 1, medium = 2, strong = 3) Febrile (internal temperature ≥101.3°F or 38.5°C) (no = 0, yes = 1) Polymorphonuclear leukocytes (<70% = 0, 70-84% = 1, ≥85% = 2) White blood cell count (<10×10 9 /L = 0, 10-14.9×10 9 /L = 1, ≥15×10 9 /L = 2) Serum C-reactive protein (<10 mg/dL = 0, 10-49 mg/dL = 1, >50 ...
The back of the throat appears normal in 90% of adult patients, so epiglottitis should considered when there is pain out of proportion to exam or when pain is caused by pressing on the external windpipe. [11] Adult epiglottitis is often referred to as supraglottitis.