"Zakhrebetniki"
Complaints are: "Often worried about back pain, weakness, fatigue, headaches, sometimes the temperature. I am ill almost a month. Recently, a cough and a runny nose has been connected, but my back is strangely odd. Perhaps we should drink something for immunity? "
Any increase in temperature indicates inflammation. Shock doses of antibiotics "smear" the clinical picture. They relieve acute inflammation, the temperature gets lost, but the inflammation remains. Similar symptoms are typical for pyelonephritis. Girls and women aged 18-30 years are at risk of pyelonephritis, which is associated, including with the onset of sexual activity, pregnancy or childbirth. The development of pyelonephritis is also promoted by such factors as a decrease in the overall immunity of the body, diabetes mellitus, chronic inflammatory diseases. In acute pyelonephritis, the patient is disturbed by fever, weakness, headache, and sweating profusely. These symptoms can be taken for a cold or flu. Antibiotics, which carry out symptomatic self-treatment, also affect the infection of the genitourinary system. An acute attack is removed, and the disease goes to the "underground" in a chronic form. Other symptoms: The temperature rises sharply to 39-40 ° C, nausea and vomiting are possible. Chronic pyelonephritis usually proceeds asymptomatically, but there may be atypical manifestations: dull aching pain in the lower back, especially in damp cold weather, weakness, fatigue, headaches, nausea.
It's time for you to see the doctor:
If pain in the lower back is often worried, especially on the one hand, there are sudden fever, fever without visible signs of a cold. You should immediately contact a urologist.
With a sick head ...
"For two days my head aches very much, it rustles in my ears, painkillers do not help, it's hard to swallow. And yesterday I noticed that one ear has ceased to hear. " Headache and dizziness can be symptoms of hundreds of completely different diseases, from colds to hypertensive crisis. Noises in the ears, difficulty swallowing, swelling of the parotid salivary glands, and loss of hearing can be caused by mumps. Fever, migraine, an increase in one or more salivary glands, sometimes it affects other organs and the central nervous system.
To the doctor:
If the headache does not go away within three days, and you become worse, it's time for the therapist.
I give my tooth!
"The tooth of wisdom is cut, the third day I sleep, only after taking an anesthetic, it helps for a short while." "The upper tooth is very sore on the right side, like, there is no hole. What can it be? "It would seem, well, what can happen with the teeth? Caries, and if time does not come to your senses and do not "surrender" to doctors, - pulpitis. All clear. But be vigilant: a toothache can be a messenger of sinusitis. Diagnosis: Some people have maxillary sinuses located very close to the tooth canal. Inflammation can spread from one node to another. Overbought in the sea, exacerbated sinusitis, and get an inflammation of the nerve. Exacerbation of sinusitis can also give false "toothache" pain. Cure it, and it will pass. Other symptoms: Pain in the forehead area with possible irradiation in the upper and lower teeth, intensifying in the afternoon, evening, sometimes in the middle of the night.
It's time for you to see the doctor:
If you tilt the head forward in the cheekbones and under the eyes, there are pains, sign up for an appointment with Laura.
Kindergarten
Complaints are: "I recently caught a cold, suffered a disease on my feet." Apparently, she did not recover, now she suffers from a seizure cough, but antitussives, mustard pills and tablets do not help. " Diagnosis: A good general state of health and complete absence of any relief from treatment with antitussive drugs allow one to suspect a childhood illness: whooping cough. Prolonged coughing attacks can occur in the absence of catarrhal phenomena: a runny nose, fever. Begins with whooping cough with a dry, frequent cough, and sometimes a slight runny nose. Body temperature usually remains normal, very rarely increases, as much as 37-5-37-7 ° C. It is almost impossible to suspect whooping cough at this stage of the disease. This period is the most insidious. It lasts from three days to two weeks and since the clinical picture is similar to a mild respiratory disease, the patient continues to lead a normal life. Quite often there are absolutely atypical forms of the disease: a rare cough, without any temperatures, with perfect well-being. Other symptoms: A typical pertussis cough is a series of coughing jerks without pauses between bouts.
It's time for you to see the doctor:
If you are suffering from a spasmodic cough or have recently had an acute respiratory disease.
Excitement in the chest
"The chest pains in the heart region are disturbing. Mom offered validol, but it helps very rarely. But the pain disappears immediately after eating. " Diagnosis: It should pay attention to the change in pain depending on meals. If the unpleasant sensations pass after a close snack, you need to conduct a test to identify ulcers of the duodenum. If the pain after eating is aggravated - it is a stomach ulcer. Other symptoms: Pain in the stomach, heartburn, belching, nausea, bloating, constipation, vomiting after eating. S You need to see a doctor: If the pain weakens, disappears, worsens depending on the degree of fullness of the stomach - be sure to visit the gastroenterologist. American researchers published statistics that mortality from side effects of drugs ranks fifth after cardiovascular diseases, tuberculosis, and cancer. In the struggle for health from self-treatment, unfortunately, more deaths are perishing than from the hands of terrorists and AIDS. 10% is mortality from gastrointestinal bleeding caused by the intake of funds from the common cold and headache. In Russia, the incidence of NSAID poisoning (non-steroid drugs, usually based on paracetamol and aspirin) ranks second after poisoning with alcohol-containing beverages. In Ukraine - the third place, in America - the fourth.