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Symptom: CHILLS (Rigors)Cause: Legionnaires- disease
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Within 12 to 48 hours after the onset of Legionnaires- disease, the patient suddenly develops chills and a high fever. Prodromal signs and symptoms characteristically include malaise, a headache, and possibly diarrhea, anorexia, diffuse myalgia, and general weakness. An initially nonproductive cough progresses to a productive cough with mucoid or mucopurulent sputum and possibly hemoptysis. The patient usually also develops nausea and vomiting, confusion, mild temporary amnesia, pleuritic chest pain, dyspnea, tachypnea, crackles, tachycardia, and flushed and mildly diaphoretic skin



Symptom: CRACKLES (Rales, crepitations)Cause: egionnaires- disease
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Legionnaires- disease produces diffuse, moist crackles and a cough that produces scant mucoid, nonpurulent, and possibly bloodstreaked sputum. Usually, prodromal signs and symptoms occur, including malaise, fatigue, weakness, anorexia, diffuse myalgia and, possibly, diarrhea. Within 12 to 48 hours, the patient develops a dry cough and a sudden high fever with chills. He may also have pleuritic chest pain, a headache, tachypnea, tachycardia, nausea, vomiting, dyspnea, mild temporary amnesia, confusion, flushing, mild diaphoresis, and prostration


Symptom: DYSTONIACause: Hallervorden-Spatz disease
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Haller-vorden-Spatz disease is a degenerative disease that causes dystonic trunk movements accompanied by choreoathetosis, ataxia, myoclonus, and generalized rigidity. The patient also exhibits a progressive intellectual decline and dysarthria


Symptom: PALLORCause: Raynaud-s disease
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Pallor of the fingers upon exposure to cold or stress is a hallmark of Raynaud-s disease. Typically, the fingers abruptly turn pale, then cyanotic; with rewarming, they become red and paresthetic. With chronic disease, ulceration may occur


Symptom: URTICARIA (Hives)Cause: Lyme disease
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Although not diagnostic of Lyme disease?a tick-borne disease ?urticaria may result from the characteristic skin lesion (erythema chronicum migrans). Later effects include constant malaise and fatigue, intermittent headache, fever, chills, lymphadenopathy, neurologic and cardiac abnormalities, and arthritis



Symptom: PARALYSISCause: Parkinson-s disease
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Tremors, bradykinesia, and lead-pipe or cogwheel rigidity are the classic signs of Parkinson-s disease. Extreme rigidity can progress to paralysis, particularly in the extremities. In most cases, paralysis resolves with prompt treatment of the disease


Symptom: LYMPHADENOPATHYCause: Lyme disease
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Spread by the bite of certain ticks, Lyme disease begins with a skin lesion called erythema chronicum migrans. As the disease progresses, the patient may suffer from lymphadenopathy, constant malaise and fatigue, and an intermittent headache, a fever, chills, and aches. He may go on to develop arthralgia and, eventually, neurologic and cardiac abnormalities


Symptom: TINNITUSCause: Me-nie`re-s disease
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Most common in adults?especially in men between ages 30 and 60? Me-nie`re-s disease is a labyrinthine disease that-s characterized by attacks of tinnitus, vertigo, a feeling of fullness or blockage in the ear, and fluctuating sensorineural hearing loss. These attacks last from 10 minutes to several hours; they occur over a few days or weeks and are followed by a remission. Severe nausea, vomiting, diaphoresis, and nystagmus may also occur during attacks



Symptom: NASAL FLARINGCause: Popcorn lung disease
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Nasal flaring occurs as a later sign as this disease progresses. The first onset of symptoms, including coughing, wheezing, and shortness of breath on exertion, usually occur gradually and worsen over time. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) investigated the first reported cases of this disease in 2000 when eight former employees who worked in a microwave popcorn flavoring plant were diagnosed with bronchiolitis obliterans, the most severe form of this disease. Diagnostic tests include spirometry, chest X-rays, computerized tomography, lung biopsy, and pulmonary function tests


Symptom: NAUSEACause: Me-nie`re-s disease
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Me-nie`re-s disease causes sudden, brief, recurrent attacks of nausea, vomiting, vertigo, tinnitus, diaphoresis, and nystagmus. It also causes hearing loss and ear fullness
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