Your health worsens, and the prescribed treatment does not help? Perhaps the diagnosis is not correct. Survey extra! Proper treatment of colds and their symptoms should be known by heart. Your health is in your hands.
Cough does not pass more than three weeks, and the prescribed medications do not work? Or, perhaps, for the second time there are repeated attacks of cystitis, despite the course of treatment? Do not clog the body with the next appointed "dark" pills - so you will only lower your chances of a full recovery. Incorrectly chosen medications do not just not help. Because of them, your body exhausted by the disease and incorrect therapy, will react more weakly to treatment of colds next time.
Constant sore throat
Prolonged hoarseness and regularly returning angina are an expressive symptom of the fact that in the very near future you need to make a swab from the throat with an antibioticogram. To do this, a fragment of plaque from the tonsils or back wall of the larynx is removed in the clinic with a spatula. A sowing is carried out, as a result of which it is determined what kinds of bacteria and how many are there. If it turns out that the cause of the disease is bacteria, an antibioticogram is made. This is a test that allows you to determine exactly which antibiotic is harmful to an insidious bacterium. Preparation: You can not drink anything, eat and even brush your teeth. Rinse your mouth with clean water. Specialist. Therapist or ENT doctor.
Do not go through a cold
Runny nose is the most common cold. However, it refers to it negligently should not. It must be treated, because the common cold can provoke serious complications. If, in addition to the appearance of ordinary liquid discharge from the nose, you also have a persistent headache, most likely an inflammation of the maxillary sinuses. Therefore, sign up for x-ray of the maxillary sinuses and a swab from the nose. A nasal swab is similar to a swab of the throat. That is, a sterile spatula with a tissue surface is taken by a sample of excretions from the nasal passages and sent to the laboratory for analysis. X-ray of the maxillary sinuses is performed in the x-ray room. There you will be covered with a special apron, which prevents excessive irradiation. And they will take a picture that will show or exclude pathological changes in the frontal and paranasal sinuses. Preparation: The survey does not require any preparatory measures. Specialist: A smear is taken by an otolaryngologist (ENT) or a therapist, a photograph of the maxillary sinuses is made by a specialist radiologist.
Persistent watery and plentiful coryza often indicates an allergy. Therefore, to be treated properly, be sure to pass the test for allergens. To do this, small incisions are made on the skin of the wrist, after which various potential allergens are introduced dropwise into them. In the event that an allergy to a particular substance is present, after about a half an hour on the skin appears a reaction in the form of redness or an itchy rash. There are also special tests that are performed in the laboratory on a preliminary blood sample. The doctor prescribes treatment with micro-doses of allergens, to which the body "reacted" - this is called allergen-specific immunotherapy. Preparation: Tests for allergens are carried out only when acute manifestations of allergy fade. Blood for examination is taken on an empty stomach. Specialist: Allergist, you can send him to you doctor-therapist.
Excreses cystitis
The need to visit the toilet frequently, pain when urinating and a slight prickling in the kidneys are common symptoms of infection. Be sure to make a urine culture with an antibioticogram. To do this, it is necessary to collect the morning urine from a so-called medium stream in a sterile container (the first one is discharged into the toilet bowl, then a part into a jar, the rest again into the toilet bowl). On the eve it is undesirable to eat fat, spicy and heavy food. At least in the afternoon. An analysis in the laboratory will determine if the bacterial infection is the cause of your problems with the urinary tract. If so, the antibiotic will help you figure out which antibacterial agent will cope with the bacteria that attack your urinary system. Preparation: Before collecting urine, it is necessary to conduct a thorough toilet of the external genital organs, so that the discharge from them does not fall into the urine sample for analysis. Because it can distort the result. Sterile capacity can be taken in the laboratory, bought in a pharmacy or prepared by itself, after pouring a thoroughly cleaned jar of boiling water. Specialist: The therapist will send you for analysis.
You cough for more than two weeks
Cough is a clear sign of a cold. If you have tried everything, but the cough does not go away, becoming more stubborn? It can talk about serious lung diseases. Be sure to do a fluorography. In the office of fluorography, you must undress to the waist and stand in front of a special screen. With the help of the device, the doctor will take a picture of the chest, which will show everything, even the smallest changes that occur in your airways. Fluorography must be done annually. Preparation: The procedure does not require special preparation. Specialist: The doctor-therapist, to whom you will apply for a consultation, will refer you to a radiologist in the office of fluorography.
Stomach often hurts
If every spring and autumn you experience abdominal pain accompanied by bloating and heartburn, it can be a symptom of a chronic gastrointestinal disease, liver or pancreas disease. To determine this, you need a gastroscopy. How it looks. A probe is inserted into the throat, which ends with a microchamber. This allows you to study the internal state of the stomach and duodenum, to identify liver disease. This is an unpleasant procedure, but very reliable, because the doctor sees the organs "from within". Preparation: Agree that the examination should be closer to noon (this is physiologically), but necessarily on an empty stomach. Specialist: Gastroenterologist.
Another type of examination are liver tests. The blood sample is analyzed in the laboratory. The analysis allows you to determine whether there is a change in the liver. Preparation: It is necessary to give blood on an empty stomach. Specialist: Therapist or gastroenterologist.
Probably, it will be necessary to spend US of an abdominal cavity. How it looks. The doctor leads the abdomen with a sonographic sensor. So you can examine in detail the internal organs and identify their diseases, as well as determine the pregnancy. Preparation: Ultrasound should be done on an empty stomach. Specialist: Therapist or gastroenterologist.
Eyes water and bake
These symptoms can indicate both a problem with the eyes themselves and internal diseases. Investigate the eye fundus. To make a diagnosis, the doctor shines in the eye with a flashlight-like device, and studies the state of the eye. Preparation: 10-15 minutes before the examination, the doctor drips into the eye atropine: a substance that dilates the pupil. Specialist: Oculist.
You spot stains on your underwear
Yellowish, brown, grayish, unpleasant smelling traces on underwear - these discharge most often speak of infection. What is this disease, will help determine the cytology and smear from the vagina. The gynecologist inserts a mirror in the vagina and takes a sample of the vaginal mucosa with a special spatula. Then sends it to the laboratory, which allows you to identify those or other changes in the sexual way. Including sexually transmitted diseases (smear) and precancerous condition of the cervix (cytology). Preparation: Same as before each visit to the gynecologist - go to the toilet and take a shower. Specialist: Gynecologist takes samples at the time of admission.
Treatment of catarrhal diseases and their symptoms should be paid close attention. If you see that the treatment prescribed by the doctor does not bring results, be sure to require an additional examination. However, we often face the callousness and indifference of medical workers. How to convince a doctor to give you a check-up:
- Morally prepare for the conversation, determine what you need;
- Do not deceive the doctor, saying that you felt better. Tell me in detail what exactly bothers you;
- Do not go on about the incompetence of the doctor or his categorical;
- Cooperate with a specialist, not just insist on your own.