Showing posts with label Signs and Symptoms. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Signs and Symptoms. Show all posts

Symptoms of depression

People who may be suffering from depression or manic disorders actually exhibit or show each and every kind of symptom of depression that doctors will tell you that depressed people have. Sometimes it’s actually quite easy to overlook such symptoms and not be able to help one’s self or others who are suffering from depression for that matter.

There are actually a lot of symptoms of depression that depressed people may actually posses but they don’t have to suffer from each and every one of them before you actually help them get diagnosed and be treated for this illness. Also, since symptoms of depression actually vary, the time of their "attacks" varies as well.

Here are some common examples of symptoms of depression:

Prolonged period of sadness or not feeling "up to it," people who are always feeling not in the mood, who’d rather mope around the house and feel sorry for one’s self is the best example for this symptom of depression.

Feels hopeless, perennial pessimist: speaking of feeling sorry for one’s self, another common symptom of depression is when a person actually feels like he/she has nothing to look forward to in his or her life. As for being the perennial pessimist, those who show this symptom of depression are usually very negative about things, again, the feeling of hopelessness comes in to mind.

Guilt-driven, loss of self-worth and helplessness: other symptoms of depression that can be easily seen on people who prefer to mope around all day long are these. Whenever a person feels so guilty over something, that actually makes one a very sad person who feels like he or she doesn’t deserve to be happy. Thus, the loss of self-worth, if that person feels like he or she isn’t worthy of being happy or enjoying one’s self then that’s clear tell-tale symptom of depression. Helplessness also contribute to being depressed, when assuming that things won’t simply go your way, it’s already a clear saying that you have absolutely no hope in your body at all.

Isn’t interested in finding or taking pleasure; just dropping the hobbies as well as the other things that one used to enjoy: this tell-tale symptom of depression just shows how depressed a person can be, if one is actually too sad to take pleasure even in the very things that one loves then that person is seriously lacking something, rather, that person might well have caught the depression bug.

Fatigue, always tired: people suffering from depression, since they’ve lost whatever interest in life that they may have had before are actually lacking of physical energy at all times, if one would prefer to just mope around, probably won’t even eat not get enough sleep, a depressed person may well be on their way to not just a mental illness but depression can actually be terrible for one’s physical health as well.

Having trouble concentrating, having bad memory and is indecisive: a person who is suffering from depression easily gives away this tell-tale symptom of depression. Wherein one’s lack of interest with regards to the outside world or for just about anything for that matter can lead to that person’s inability to lose track of things and actually not be able to remember things that happened or what other people said. Lack of interest actually makes depressed people very inattentive.

There are actually more symptoms of depression that can actually help you see if a person (or you) needs to be brought to the doctor to get some help when it comes to depression: lacking sleep, sleeping too much or waking up at wee hours of the morning are all symptoms of depression (if it happens on a daily basis), appetite loss as well as eating too much may show one’s lack of enthusiasm for life. Be weary of sudden weight loss or weight gain in those around you. Being suicidal, talking about death, about wanting to die is another clear indication that that person is depressed. Being restless and irritable and physical symptoms that are usually brought about by poor mental health such as headaches, digestive disorders and various body pains.

Lung Cance - Early symtoms (Must Read)

Implicit gradually lung cancer, and its early symptoms not much, and some people even without detectable, but only occasionally found in the physical examination. Once a significant symptom, often already close to the late, when treatment has been very difficult, and patients with high mortality rates. So for lung cancer, in your its diagnosis and treatment.

Following the early symptoms and signs of early diagnosis of lung cancer have some help:

1. A dry cough, choking over two weeks, and the anti-inflammatory treatment ineffective, or the original nature of chronic cough suddenly change;

2. Bloody sputum and sudden chest pain is just unbearable, and no obvious reasons to explain;

3. Lung auscultation, there are limitations Wheezing audition Diyin, Han and the sound does not change because of coughing;

4. Repeated a place in the lung inflammatory changes;

5. And we can not explain the limitations of the general tracheitis Feiwenli increase or limitations emphysema;

6. Long-term smoker, change cough, sputum and blood.

Lung cancer - Common Sign & Symtoms

Common lung cancer sig and symptoms

Sign

1. Cough
The most common initial symptoms. Due to tumor size, location can be different for the performance of dry cough, cough RUF, with the sound of wheezing cough and cough with metal sound.

2. Expectoration
About 15% since the beginning of expectoration, mostly white sputum. Vascularized tumor rupture, sputum, hemoptysis sustainable, but also for intermittent. 25 ~ 40% of patients with lung cancer hemoptysis.

3. Chest pain
Early to chest discomfort. When tumors involving the chest wall could lead to a sustained, intense chest pain.

4. Wheeze
Some obstruction due to bronchial asthma, making breathing sound.

5. Shortness of breath
Common bronchial spasm, obstruction, pulmonary infection, pulmonary diseases such as pleural effusion or different degrees of shortness of breath.

6. Fever
Because of bronchial obstruction, stasis secretions caused varying degrees of inflammation.


Symptoms

1. Hoarseness
When the tumor can cause violations of the recurrent laryngeal nerve, dumb pronunciation, speaking in a "whisper-like."

2. Facial swelling
Tumor suppression on the inferior vena cava, causing facial swelling, skin Purpurin, dizziness, vertigo, stuffy nose and other symptoms increase when supine. Another upper extremity, neck swelling often occurred.

3. supraclavicular lymph nodes: in the supraclavicular fossa visible enlarged lymph nodes, advanced mass can be formed.

4. Dysphagia
To mediastinal lymph node metastasis of lung cancer, esophageal oppression from eating difficulties.

5. Clubbed fingers, toes and lung Osteoarthropathy
Patients with lung cancer can occur clubbed fingers and toes of. Some patients showed early migration of large joints deep burning sensation.

6. The transfer of lung cancer caused by other symptoms
Transfer to the brain can cause headache, dizziness, nausea, vomiting and hemiplegia; bone metastasis, such as bone pain caused.

Lung Cancer - Signs and Symptoms

Symptoms that suggest lung cancer include:

  • Dyspnea (shortness of breath)
  • Hemoptysis (coughing up blood)
  • Chronic coughing or change in regular coughing pattern
  • Wheezing
  • Chest pain or pain in the abdomen
  • Cachexia (weight loss), fatigue and loss of appetite
  • Dysphonia (hoarse voice)
  • Clubbing of the fingernails (uncommon)
  • Dysphagia (difficulty swallowing).


If the cancer grows in the airway, it may obstruct airflow, causing breathing difficulties. This can lead to accumulation of secretions behind the blockage, predisposing the patient to pneumonia. Many lung cancers have a rich blood supply. The surface of the cancer may be fragile, leading to bleeding from the cancer into the airway. This blood may subsequently be coughed up.

Depending on the type of tumor, so-called paraneoplastic phenomena may initially attract attention to the disease. In lung cancer, these phenomena may include Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome (muscle weakness due to auto-antibodies), hypercalcemia or syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone (SIADH). Tumors in the top (apex) of the lung, known as Pancoast tumors, may invade the local part of the sympathetic nervous system, leading to changed sweating patterns and eye muscle problems (a combination known as Horner's syndrome), as well as muscle weakness in the hands due to invasion of the brachial plexus.

Many of the symptoms of lung cancer (bone pain, fever, weight loss) are nonspecific; in the elderly, these may be attributed to comorbid illness. In many patients, the cancer has already spread beyond the original site by the time they have symptoms and seek medical attention. Common sites of metastasis include the bone, such as the spine (causing back pain and occasionally spinal cord compression), the liver and the brain. About 10% of people with lung cancer do not have symptoms at diagnosis; these cancers are incidentally found on routine chest x-rays.



Originally from Wikipedia.org

Lung Cancer - Signs & Symtoms

The early symptoms of lung cancer

Ten following symptoms we should be on high alert:

  1. Body such as breasts, abdomen or neck of the growing mass;
  2. A non-physical injury caused by ulcers, especially perishable Fuyu, such as skin, buccal mucosa, and tongue ulcer, etc.;
  3. Heizhi suddenly increased, hair loss or rupture hemorrhage;
  4. Plugging long nose, nasal bleeding, unilateral headache with or diplopia;
  5. Persistent dry cough and bloody sputum or persistent hoarseness;
  6. Increasing the swallowing will not ring true or nausea after eating at the sternum bulging, burning sensation;
  7. Stool habits change, alternating constipation and diarrhea or recurrent hematochezia;
  8. Unexplained indigestion or long-term sexual anorexia, emaciated;
  9. A painless hematuria;
  10. Middle-aged and older women in irregular vaginal bleeding or Leucorrhea increasing.

Above normal in one or more of the performance should be cause for concern, to hospital checks to clear reasons. However, it must be pointed out that more than a certain kind of performance may be related to the early symptoms similar to the tumor, but not all people with these symptoms tumor disease, and many more other diseases can also cause the various manifestations of the above.

How early detection of cancer?

Early detection of cancer related to the first, is timely to conduct self-examination, as many tumor growth in the surface, it can be self-censorship. Found that certain internal growth in the tumor, as growth in certain special location, can cause certain symptoms, such as the 10 symptoms of certain performance, early detection of these self-abnormal feeling, and promptly requested the doctors for a medical examination, there will be a clear diagnosis . The older people, the nearest regular inspection, and we can rule out the cancer and early detection.

Cancer - Signs and Symptoms

Roughly, cancer symptoms can be divided into three groups:
Local symptoms: unusual lumps or swelling (tumor), hemorrhage (bleeding), pain and/or ulceration. Compression of surrounding tissues may cause symptoms such as jaundice (yellowing the eyes and skin).

Symptoms of metastasis (spreading): enlarged lymph nodes, cough and hemoptysis, hepatomegaly (enlarged liver), bone pain, fracture of affected bones and neurological symptoms. Although advanced cancer may cause pain, it is often not the first symptom.

Systemic symptoms: weight loss, poor appetite, fatigue and cachexia (wasting), excessive sweating (night sweats), anemia and specific paraneoplastic phenomena, i.e. specific conditions that are due to an active cancer, such as thrombosis or hormonal changes.

Every symptom in the above list can be caused by a variety of conditions (a list of which is referred to as the differential diagnosis). Cancer may be a common or uncommon cause of each item.


Originally from Wikipedia.org