Symptoms

Symptoms are changes in the body or its functioning that the patient notices and that indicate the presence of disease.

They are seen by the sufferer, prompting them to seek medical attention. 

Some examples include abdominal pain, pain in any part of the body, nausea, chills, cough, fever, shortness of breath, disorientation, dry mouth, diarrhoea, and so on.

Symptom types:

Symptoms are classified into three categories:

• Symptoms are referred to as remitting symptoms when they disappear or improve entirely. Symptoms of the common cold, for example, may last for many days before disappearing without therapy.
• Chronic symptoms are those that go on for a long time or are recurrent. Chronic symptoms are common in long-term illnesses such as diabetes, asthma, and cancer.
• Symptoms that have appeared in the past, disappeared, and then reappeared are known as relapsing symptoms. Depression symptoms, for example, may go unnoticed for years before reappearing.

Examples of Symptoms:

• Chronic pain symptoms include the following: Pain that lasts longer than 12 weeks or exceeds the usual healing time is referred to as chronic or persistent pain.
• Lightheadedness (dizziness): To different people, the term “dizziness” denotes different things: to some, it means feeling lightheaded or off-balance, while to others, it means feeling as if their surroundings are spinning.
• Headaches are a type of pain in the head.
• migraines: A migraine is a headache that is usually moderate or severe and causes throbbing pain on one side of the brain. Nausea, vomiting, and heightened sensitivity to light and sound are common side effects.
• earache: Earache is a frequent complaint, especially among children. It can be alarming, but it’s usually caused by a little infection and will usually go away on its own.
• Hearing loss can happen quickly, although it usually happens over time. Hearing loss can manifest itself in a variety of ways, including:
  • Hearing other people clearly and misinterpreting what they say is a problem for you.
  • requesting that people repeat themselves
  • by listening to music or watching television at a volume that is louder than necessary for other individuals
• Blood can flow from one or both nostrils during nosebleeds. It might be heavy or mild, and it can last anywhere from a few seconds to more than 15 minutes.
• Vertigo is a symptom, not a condition. It’s the sense that you or your surroundings are moving or whirling. This sensation may be hardly perceptible, or it may be so intense that it makes it difficult to maintain your equilibrium and perform daily duties.
• Tinnitus is a phrase used to describe hearing sounds that originate within your body rather than from outside sources. Although numerous sounds can be heard, it’s commonly described as “ringing in the ears.” some side effects are Buzzing, Humming, Grinding, Hissing, Whistling etc
• Chest pain
• Diarrhoea
• Bowel pain
• Flu
• Fever
• Cough
• Cough
• Shortness of breath
• Toothache
• Bone pain
• Muscle pain
• Abnormal thoughts
• Chills
• paresthesia((seen as numbness, tingling, electric tweaks)

Symptoms resolved: 

When symptoms go away, this is referred to as symptom resolution or just symptom resolution. If a person gets a fever, he or she goes to the doctor and takes medicine, and the fever goes away the next day, this is referred to as symptom resolution.

Symptoms may not completely resolve, but they may improve slightly, in which case they are referred to as improved symptoms.

Chronic symptoms seldom go away completely and can last a long period.

SYMPTOMATOLOGY:

A symptom is a deviation from normal function or feeling (from Greek, “accident, calamity, that which befalls, from, “I befall,” from v- “with, with” and, “I fall”). Symptomatology (sometimes known as semiology) is a discipline of medicine that deals with disease signs and symptoms.  The symptoms of a disease are also included in this research.  Henry Stubbe coined the term semiotics in 1670, which is today used to denote the study of sign communication. 

Before the eighteenth century, there was no difference between a physician’s and a patient’s ability to observe. A “monolithic consensus of view enforced from within the community of medical research” rapidly supplanted the majority of medical practice as a cooperative interaction between the physician and the patient. While they both noted similar things, the physician had a more informed interpretation: “the physicians recognised what the results signified, whereas the layman did not.”

Conclusion: 

Symptoms provide a general indication of a disease or cause. It is critical to be aware of and respond to body signals. Symptoms give clinicians a rough sense of what might be causing them and what diseases might be causing them. Coughing and fever are symptoms of the flu, according to experts. Symptomatology is the scientific study of symptoms. The entire public should be made aware of the signs of common diseases such as the flu, malaria, and other illnesses. It should be highlighted that symptoms should never be disregarded since even minor symptoms can save a life.