Human health and diseases

Diseases and symptoms

TYPHOID

• sustained high fever

• headache

• weakness

• loss of appetite

• stomach pain

• constipation

• intestinal perforation and death

PNEUMONIA

• Fever

• Headache

• Chills

• Cough

• Infection in alveoli

• Lips+fingers turn grey to bluish in colour

PLAGUE

• High fever

• Red patches which turn black

• Bubo (lump) in groin or armpit

• Fatal

CHOLERA

• Frequent stools (white like rice-water)

• Repeated vomiting

DIPTHERIA

• Mild fever

• Headache

• Vomiting

• Chills

• Sore throat

• Throat+tonsils show grey membrane- may cause hoarseness and difficulty in breathing

COMMON COLD/ RHINITIS

• Headache

• Nasal congestion and discharge

• Sore throat, hoarseness, cough

• Tiredness (3-7 days)

• TARGET ORGAN- NOSE + UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT

INFLUENZA

• Fever

• Headache

• Cold with sneezing

• Sore throat

• Restlessness and body pain

• Ear infection

• Pneumonia, bronchitis

• TARGET ORGAN - LUNGS

POLIOMYELITIS

• Headache

• Fever

• Inability to bend head forward

• Stiffness of neck

• Inflammation of nervous system

• Paralysis and pain

• If muscles of larynx and pharynx involved then fatal

ASCARIASIS

• Fever

• Anemia

• Muscular pain

• Internal bleeding

• Blockage of intestinal passage

ELEPHANTIASIS

• Inflammation of organs specifically genital region and lower limbs

RINGWORMS

• Dry scaly lesions on nails, scalp and skin

• Intense itching