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	ACP Observer, June 2004 - Common symptoms: When to test, treat
		NEW ORLEANS—Common symptoms and complaints may be the bread and butter of daily practice, but they get relatively little attention when it comes to research and teaching.
		Half of all outpatient visits are triggered by common symptoms, such as cough and other respiratory complaints, dizziness, fatigue, and a variety of pain symptoms.
		Dizziness, one of the most common complaints in the outpatient setting, is often difficult to assess because of the wide range of possible causes, from mild to severe.
	www.acponline.org /journals/news/jun04/symptoms.htm (1167 words)

	Freemen's Common Health Centre
		Symptoms are usually of a very sore throat associated with high fever and painful enlarged lymph glands in the neck.
		The symptoms associated with Meningitis are: severe constant headache; neck stiffness – can’t move your chin towards your chest without a lot of pain; dislike of bright lights; high temperature; a rash of red/blue spots or bruises; vomiting; drowsiness or confusion; cold hands or feet.
		Symptoms are swelling of the glands in front of one or other ear followed, after a couple of days, by swelling in front of the other ear.
	www.le.ac.uk /healthcentre/selftreatment.html (1456 words)

	Ten Most Common Health Complaints - Forbes.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The National Center for Health Statistics reports that at least one drug was prescribed at 66% of all office visits, and the list of the most prescribed drugs has shifted in just 10 years from mostly generic antibiotics and pain medications to brand-name medications like Pfizer's (nyse: PFE - news - people) Celebrex and Lipitor.
		The following was compiled based on the symptoms patients recorded as the primary reason for visiting their doctor's office in 2000.
		It was compiled with data from the National Center on Health Statistics and excludes visits for postoperative and general medical examinations.
	www.forbes.com /2003/07/15/cx_kf_0715health.html?partner=netscape (976 words)

	Physical Complaints - Aches, Pains, and Fatigue - Introduction to Symptoms
		Physical complaints arising from the psychological domain are presumed to be due to mental and emotional conflicts or maladaptive habits and are said to be psychogenic.
		Complaints of this variety are the subject of this chapter.
		It is common in persons who suffer from psychogenic complaints to develop excessive worry about their health.
	www.thehealthcenter.info /emotions/physicalcomplaints (974 words)

	Common Cold Symptoms and Chemotherapy
		However, depending on your overall health status, and your healthcare provider, he or she may suggest that another antibiotic be used for the common cold symptoms.
		However, depending on your overall health status, and your healthcare provider, he or she may suggest that another antibiotic be used to treat the common cold symptoms.
		Even though symptoms of the common cold may be gone in 2 to 3 days, make sure you take all the prescribed medication, to get rid of the suspected infection.
	www.chemocare.com /MANAGING/cold_symptoms.asp (11300 words)

	complaints (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		These symptoms include palpitations, sweating, trembling, shortness of breath, sensations of choking or smothering, chest pain, nausea or gastrointestinal distress, dizziness or lightheadedness, tingling sensations, and chills or blushing and “hot flashes.” The attack typically has an abrupt onset, building to maximum intensity within 10 to 15 minutes.
		It is the most common disease diagnosed by gastroenterologists (doctors who specialize in medical treatment of disorders of the stomach and intestines) and one of the most common disorders seen by all physicians.
		Irritable bowel syndrome is characterized by a group of symptoms in which abdominal pain or discomfort is associated with a change in bowel pattern, such as loose or more frequent bowel movements, diarrhea, and/or constipation (www.aboutibs.org/).
	www.readingyourbody.com /complaints (1306 words)

	Section I–Common Health Problems - Headaches
		Headaches are one of the most common health complaints, not just for college students, but for adults and even children.
		Examples are allergies, depression (see signs and symptoms of depression), infections, and dental problems.
		Headaches that are symptoms of health conditions are relieved when the condition is treated with success.
	www.westga.edu /~health/selfcare/headaches.htm (856 words)

	The Body: Women and HIV: Symptoms and Quality of Life in Women
		Symptoms of disease are subjective (perceived by the person with the condition), whereas signs of illness are objective (perceived by another person).
		Symptoms experienced by HIV positive women in developing countries are remarkably similar to those that affect women in the U.S., although their intensity may be greater.
		Fatigue, depression, and pain are examples of common symptoms in women with HIV whose etiologies (causes) are often complex and may be related to several body systems.
	www.thebody.com /sfaf/winter05/women_hiv.html (2835 words)

	Tresorie - Common GI Complaints [Common GI Complaints]
		For a practising physician GI complaints come second only to Respiratory complaints by a rough estimate of about 10 percent -12 percent of patient attending a general physicians clinical, present with GI complaints.
		The complaint of constipation should always be taken cautiously and one should try to find out what is the patients attitude towards pattern of bowel movements.
		Should we not also confess that if it can be given on mental symptoms and does not remove a foreign body, that these mental symptoms were not the true constitutionaly mental symptoms of that patient, for if they were, it would have acted constitutional and when so acting, it does cause suppuration about foreign bodies.
	www.homeoint.org /hompath/articles/1979.html (925 words)

	HuntIndia - Women's Paradise (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Common symptoms include sleep disturbances, changed eating patterns, fatigue, loss of interest in daily activities, and exaggerated mood swings.
		Ptyalism or excessive saliva is a common symptom of pregnancy.
		Vaginitis is a vaginal infection that is common in pregnancy.
	www.huntindia.com /womans/pregnancycomplaints.asp (4219 words)

	Symptoms of fibromyalgia
		The presenting symptoms and complaints of fibromyalgia are common and non-specific.
		While this symptom is common, it is not universal.
		While this symptom is rarely offered as a complaint by the patient, it is often readily acknowledged upon questioning (e.g.
	www.spine-health.com /topics/cd/fib/def/fib_def04.html (436 words)

	Common Ailments - Health Center - SMU
		Although flu symptoms are felt throughout the body, the flu virus lives and multiplies primarily in the lungs.
		Upset stomach, diarrhea, and vomiting are not symptoms of the flu----"stomach flu" is usually caused by other microorganisms and is often mistakenly referred to as the "flu".
		Your health care provider may prescribe steroids if airway obstruction is a possibility to try to decrease the size of the tonsils.
	www.smu.edu /healthcenter/med_ailments.asp (4801 words)

	Section I–Common Health Problems - Headaches
		Symptoms vary depending on the type of headache.
		An aura is symptoms a person experiences, such as spots or flashing lights, or numbness for 10 to 30 minutes prior to the headache.
		A headache can be a symptom of other health conditions.
	healthcenter.ucdavis.edu /selfcare/headaches.htm (864 words)

	Health Effects of Mold Exposure
		Symptoms of exposure to mold can be as simple as a stuffy nose or watery eyes.
		If mold in your home is the source of these issues, you will find that your health improves if you are away from your home for an extended period of time.
		It is a good practice to be aware of, and control, sources of moisture in your home, to clean up mold whenever it is found, and to treat areas where mold is likely to be found so it cannot grow.
	www.bbjenviro.com /cs_health.asp (186 words)

	Battling Lupus
		Symptoms also tend to come and go, with active periods, called flares, and quiet periods when the disease is in remission.
		The most common symptoms of lupus are skin rashes, extreme fatigue, arthritis, unexplained fevers, and kidney problems.
		According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), participating in clinical trials for new treatments can give people a more active role in their health care, access to new treatments before they are widely available, and a sense of making an important contribution to medical research.
	www.fda.gov /fdac/features/2005/405_lupus.html (3627 words)

	Common pulmonary presentations
		Certain aches, pains, and functional upsets are often ignored for long periods, but the onset of cough, chest pain, or shortness of breath is frightening, signifying—as it may and as most people realize—grave internal mischief that warrants prompt attention.
		The origin, differential diagnosis, and management of these six everyday symptoms, which impel patients to visit their frontline physicians, are described in this monograph.
		Next, we discuss how to manage two common pulmonary disorders, pleural effusion and solitary pulmonary nodule, either of which may be an accidental chest x-ray finding or picked up in a film taken to evaluate a patient who presented with pulmonary symptoms.
	www.nlhep.org /books/pul_Pre/preface-plpr.html (404 words)

	Pitt Campaign Chronicle: Health Complaints in Teens Who Abuse Alcohol Tied to Anxiety, Depression, Pitt Researchers ...
		Although most self-reported health problems in adolescents with alcohol use disorders (AUDs) can be traced to the emotional consequences of drinking and not to toxic effects of alcohol, there are serious physical consequences, including demonstrable liver injury, according to research from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
		In one of the study’s most significant findings, the Pittsburgh researchers discovered that many physical complaints were psychosomatic and not related to organ damage caused by drinking.
		Adolescents with alcohol use disorders reported symptoms of health problems in many areas, including sleep difficulties, chest discomfort, breathing symptoms, abdominal complaints, muscle and joint pain, and headaches.
	www.umc.pitt.edu /media/pcc010924/drinkteens.html (522 words)

	The Canadian Prostate Health Council
		The recently developed NIH Chronic Prostatitis Symptom Index is a reliable and valid instrument that will enable physicians in future research and clinical studies to assess patients’ prostatitis symptoms in a uniform and reproducible way.
		Using data from the Olmsted County Study of Urinary Symptoms and Health Status among Men, they found the overall prevalence of a physician’s diagnosis of prostatitis was 11%.
		Moreover, the single most common reason for chronic prostatitis visits was painful urination, which was an uncommon reason for BPH visits.
	www.canadian-prostate.com /ver_01/eng/updates/cpv4no22.htm (491 words)

	Common Mental Health Complaints and Treatments : School of Behavioural Science : MDHS : UM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Agoraphobia is a fear of being in places or situations from which it may be difficult or embarrassing to get away, or the fear that help might be unavailable if needed.
		Anxiety disorders are common and affect one in 20 people at any given time.
		The attacks are accompanied by all the unpleasant physical symptoms of anxiety, with a fear that the attack will lead to death or a total loss of control.
	www.psych.unimelb.edu.au /clinic/MHterms.html (1258 words)

	Helping you find solutions for health.
		The first truth is that half the diseases that lead to premature disability and death are caused by eating too much of the wrong food and exercising too little.
		The second truth is that normal is not normal: The foods implicated in causing illnesses are common foods that almost everyone eats.
		Take advantage of the 900 pages of text which describe the most common health problems and introduce you to innovative solutions such as Alpha ENF and the Alpha Nutrition Program.
	www.nutramed.com (367 words)

	Clinical Trial: Treatment of Patients With Longstanding Unexplained Health Complaints
		The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of specialized treatment (including cognitive therapy, social counselling and a recommendation letter to the patients’ primary care physician) on the functional level, emotional problems, and use of health care in patients with chronic medically unexplained symptoms.
		Medically unexplained or functional somatic symptoms are complaints, which are not attributable to any verifiable, conventionally defined disease, or which cannot adequately be supported by clinical or para-clinical findings.
		Functional somatic symptoms are common in the population and in all clinical settings, both in primary and secondary care.
	www.clinicaltrials.gov /ct/show/NCT00132197 (588 words)

	Health and Finesse - Dealing with common pregnancy complaints
		Believe it or not, there are many changes you can make to your diet that will help minimize many of the common pregnancy complaints you are having.
		Nausea/Morning Sickness – This is one of the more common complaints pregnant women have, particularly during their first trimester.
		Be sure you also consume foods rich in iron to prevent anemia, a common cause of fatigue in pregnant women.
	www.healthandfinesse.com /pregnancy-complaints.html (449 words)

	eMedicine - Common Pregnancy Complaints and Questions : Article Excerpt by: Suzanne R Trupin, MD
		Missing a period is usually the first signal of a new pregnancy, although women with irregular periods may not initially recognize a missed period as pregnancy.
		All or some of these symptoms are normal.
		The count is then essentially determined by the amount of displacement of the radiolabeled sample.
	www.emedicine.com /med/byname/common-pregnancy-complaints-and-questions.htm (660 words)

	Woes range from dangerous conditions to common health complaints
		It's nothing new to know that excess weight is often accompanied by health problems, such as type 2 diabetes or heart disease.
		But the latest rundown of conditions is stunningly long and diverse, covering 41 topics including asthma, heart failure, high blood pressure, depression, fatigue, osteoarthritis, and stress.
		Higher BMI was tied to 37 out of 41 health conditions for women and 29 out of 41 for men.
	onhealth.webmd.com /script/main/art.asp?articlekey=55892 (449 words)

	Prostatitis: Causes, Symptoms, Treatments
		The primary symptom of chronic infectious prostatitis is usually repeated bladder infections.
		The symptoms are similar to acute bacterial prostatitis, but are less severe and can fluctuate in intensity.
		It's important to make sure your symptoms are not caused by urethritis (inflammation of the urethra) or some other condition that may lead to permanent bladder or kidney damage.
	www.webmd.com /content/article/45/1688_50841 (1243 words)

	Professionals For Women's Health - Common Complaints (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Nausea is a very common and normal symptom, which usually can be controlled by eating small, frequent meals and eating bland foods such as toast, crackers, Jello®,and carbonated beverages at room temperature.
		In addition, the sacroiliac joints, where the small of the back and the buttocks join, are another are where pain is common.
		Another less common source of low back pain may be related to your vertebra disks (or pads).
	www.pwhealth.com /complaints.html (486 words)

	Common EENT Complaints
		The following are the most common symptoms for tonsillitis, however, individuals may experience symptoms differently.
		The symptoms of tonsillitis may resemble other conditions or medical problems.
		It is also possible that someone (especially a child) is carrying the strep bacteria (a common cause of tonsillitis) without presenting any symptoms of the infection.
	www.csufresno.edu /DCG/faculty/Barakzai/EENT_Complaints/xComm/xCommon_EENT_Complaints_files/Slide0014.htm (424 words)

	Common Complaints - First Trimester \| Irish Health Focus \| Vhi
		Unpleasant as it is morning sickness or nausea is one of the most common symptoms of early pregnancy.
		Is another common complaint during the early months of pregnancy.
		It is due in part to the effect of hormonal changes during pregnancy and also to the growing uterus pressing on your bladder.
	www.vhihealthe.com /hfiles/hf-116p.jsp (1084 words)

	Psychological Symptoms - Anxiety, Depression, OCD, Shyness, Sleep Difficulty, Phobias and more..
		It now appears that the natural emotional state of a human being without significant psychological symptoms is a general feeling of mental and emotional well-being, comparable to the way your body feels on good days when you do not have aches and pains.
		The kind of psychological suffering that is intolerable is the kind that goes on and on, that seems to have no end.
		In this book, you will learn effective ways to cope with the kind of psychological symptoms that bring you months and years of useless suffering.
	www.thehealthcenter.info /emotions (508 words)

	Intimate Partner Violence and Health: Self-Assessed Health, Chronic Health, and Somatic Symptoms Among Mexican American ...
		Health problems among abused women are not limited to the acute
		Selected symptoms associated with sexual and physical abuse history among female patients with gastrointestinal disorders: the impact on subsequent health care visits.
		Ratner P. The incidence of wife abuse and mental health status in abused wives in Edmonton, Alberta.
	www.psychosomaticmedicine.org /cgi/content/full/63/3/352 (4823 words)

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