Golden point 6

 Common Signs and Symptoms.One Questions every Aiims Exam..✍️📗🏅

               🔴MUST READ 🔴👍

*.Pulmonary Tuberculosis (PTB)—low-gradeafternoon fever.

*.Pneumonia—rust-colored sputum.

*.Asthma—wheezing on expiration.

*.Emphysema—barrel chest.

*.Kawasaki Syndrome—strawberry tongue.

*.Pernicious Anemia—red beefy tongue.

*.Down syndrome—protruding tongue.

*.Cholera—rice-watery stool and washer woman’s hands (wrinkled hands from dehydration).

*.Malaria—stepladder like fever with chills.

*.Typhoid—rose spots in the abdomen.

*.Dengue—fever,rash, and headache. Positive Herman’s sign.

*.Diphtheria—pseudomembrane formation.

*.Measles—Koplik’s spots (clustered white lesions on buccal mucosa).

*.Systemic Lupus Erythematosus—butterfly rash.

*.Leprosy—leonine facies (thickened folded facial skin).

*.Bulimia—chipmunk facies (parotid gland swelling).

*.Appendicitis—rebound tenderness at McBurney’s point. Rovsing’s sign (palpation of LLQ elicits pain in RLQ). Psoas sign (pain from flexing the thigh to the hip).

*.Meningitis—Kernig’s sign (stiffness of hamstrings causing inability to straighten the leg when the hip is flexed to 90 degrees), Brudzinski’s sign (forced flexion of the neck elicits a reflex flexion of the hips).

*.Tetany—hypocalcemia, [+] Trousseau’s sign; Chvostek sign.

*.Tetanus— Risus sardonicus or rictus grin.

*.Pancreatitis—Cullen’s sign (ecchymosis of the umbilicus), Grey Turner’s sign (bruising of the flank).

*.Pyloric Stenosis—olive like mass.

*.Patent Ductus Arteriosus—washing machine-like murmur.

*.Addison’s disease—bronzelike skin pigmentation.

*.Cushing’s syndrome—moon face appearance and buffalo hump.

*.Grave’s Disease (Hyperthyroidism)—Exophthalmos(bulging of the eye out of the orbit).

*.Intussusception—Sausage-shaped mass.

*.Multiple Sclerosis—Charcot’s Triad: nystagmus, intention tremor, and dysarthria.

*.Myasthenia Gravis—descending muscle weakness, ptosis (drooping of eyelids).

*.Guillain-Barre Syndrome—ascending muscles weakness.

*.Deep vein thrombosis (DVT)—Homan’s Sign.

*.Angina—crushing, stabbing pain relieved by NTG.

*.Myocardial Infarction (MI)—crushing, stabbing pain radiating to left shoulder, neck, and arms. Unrelieved by NTG.

*.Parkinson’s disease—pill-rolling tremors.

*.Cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection—Owl’seye appearance of cells (huge nucleus in cells).

*.Glaucoma—tunnel vision.

*.Retinal Detachment—flashes of light, shadow with curtain across vision.

*.Basilar Skull Fracture—Raccoon eyes (periorbital ecchymosis) and Battle’s sign (mastoid ecchymosis).

*.Buerger’s Disease—intermittent claudication (pain at buttocks or legs from poor circulation resulting in impaired walking).

*.Diabetic Ketoacidosis—acetone breathe.

*.Pregnancy Induced Hypertension (PIH)—proteinuria, hypertension, edema.

*.Diabetes Mellitus—polydipsia, polyphagia, polyuria.

*.Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD)—heartburn.

*.Hirschsprung’s Disease (Toxic Megacolon)—ribbon-like stool.

*.Sexual Transmitted Infections:

*.Herpes Simplex Type II—painful vesicles on genitalia

*.Genital Warts—warts 1-2 mm in diameter.

*.Syphilis—painless chancres.

*.Chancroid—painful chancres.

*.Gonorrhea—green, creamy discharges and painful urination.

*.Chlamydia—milky discharge and painful urination.

*.Candidiasis—white bi cheesy odorless vaginal discharges.

*.Trichomoniasis—yellow, itchy, frothy, and foul-smelling vaginal discharges.