Your doctor may also suggest blood tests to check your white blood cell count, a general sign of infection. They might ask you to get a chest X-ray to see if you haveinflammationor fluid in your lungs that aresigns of pneumonia, a complication of whooping cough. See a doctor if you d...
Symptoms of bacterial meningitis in adults TOP headache mosquito bites Nausea and vomiting Seizure Muscle pain Pain in the joints Dizziness Photophobia Difficulty in breastfeeding Irritability or extreme apathy Uncontrollable crying Stiffness of the body or generalized hypotonia (limp, no tone) ...
Place the child in either the frog-leg or lithotomy position (alternatively, prone knee-chest position); then, grasp each of the labia majus with a gloved thumb and forefinger. Avoid gripping the labia minora, which are attached to the underlying fascia and, therefore less mobile. ...
Some cases of pneumonia are life-threatening. Around 50,000 people die each year of pneumonia in the U.S. Although anyone of any age can be affected, pneumonia is more common in elderly people and often occurs when the immune system becomes weakened via a prior infection or another condition...
Infection rates are typically higher during cold winter months, causing bronchiolitis in babies, common cold in adults and more serious respiratory illnesses such as pneumonia in elderly and immunocompromised people. Survival rate of RSV in infants The mortality rate of RSV in babies depends on the ...
In women and the elderly, heart attack symptoms can be atypical and sometimes so vague they are easily missed. The only complaint may be extreme weakness or fatigue. Pain may also radiate from the chest to the neck, jaw, shoulder, or back and be associated with shortness of breath, ...
COVID also seems to be assuming an infection pattern. However, research published last December shows that viral activity doesn’t disappear in the summer (like the flu practically does). While the number of COVID infections is lower overall during the warmer months, multiple infection peaks occu...
While COVID seems more infectious than those two, it also seems less deadly (in terms of the amount of people who died after contracting those infections), which is not always as great as it sounds. Easier transmission results in more cases, making it harder to stop the infection, which ...
Well, anyone can get a MRSA infection regardless of age, gender, profession, or other personal circumstances. Newborns, babies, toddlers, children, teenagers, adults, and the elderly can get infected. It does not matter whether you are rich or poor nor whether your living conditions are good ...
Increasing pain, fever, and rapid heartbeat, which could be signs of a toxic megacolon or a perforated colon (hole in the colon). This could lead to an infection and sepsis, which can be fatal. Blood clots in your veins or arteries. Blood clots can cause deep vein thrombosis, go to ...