Generally speaking, if you lose weight suddenly without consciously controlling your diet and increasing your exercise in a short period of time; or if you lose more than 10 kg within a month, you should seek medical attention in time even if you don’t feel any abnormality in your body.
Sudden skinny within 1 month (pixabay)
Especially middle-aged and elderly people should pay attention. Once they suddenly lose weight, it is best to rule out whether the body is suffering from tumors. Diabetic patients may experience polyphagia, polyuria, and polydipsia in the early stage, accompanied by weight loss. If your food intake does not decrease, but you lose weight again and again, accompanied by a thick neck or symptoms such as palpitation and insomnia, you may also suffer from hyperthyroidism.
Sudden chest pain is one of the common clinical symptoms, the reasons are quite complex, and fatal diseases may occur, including acute myocardial infarction, acute aortic dissection, pulmonary embolism, etc. Cardiopulmonary arrest may occur immediately or within a few hours of the onset.
Clinical data show that about 2/3 of patients with myocardial infarction have aura symptoms before the onset, most of them about a week before the onset, and some patients appear in the first two days. Each time lasts 3 to 5 minutes and can be repeated. Therefore, even if the time is short, you should pay special attention to chest tightness, dull pain or palpitation.
The body has a strong immune system, and when there is a wound in the skin, phagocytes and humors help to heal. If you are scratched or cut in your daily life, it is just a small wound, but it cannot be completely healed in a few weeks, and even has symptoms such as ulceration and suppuration, you should pay special attention, this may be a problem with the immune system.
If middle-aged and elderly people find that small wounds on their bodies have not healed for a long time, they should also pay attention to testing blood sugar and screening for diabetes. The high concentration of glucose in the blood of diabetic patients will penetrate into the interstitial tissue and damage the repair ability of body tissue and cells.
Be careful with dry cough for more than 2 months (photoAC)
Generally speaking, if the cough lasts for more than two months, it is called chronic cough in medicine. If the cough persists for more than two months, variant asthma should be considered. In fact, cough variant asthma is a kind of “atypical asthma”, often with cough as the first symptom.
It is generally believed that patients have airway hyperresponsiveness, and once they encounter certain factors, they will reflexively induce an irritating cough. If you are allergic, have allergic rhinitis, urticaria, eczema and other diseases, and cough for more than two months, you should be highly vigilant for cough variant asthma.
Many people have experienced the feeling of headache. You may think that it is caused by fatigue or lack of sleep. Just rest for a day or two and you will be fine. But if the headache persists for more than a week, it’s best to get it checked out in time.
Migraine, cervicogenic headache and other pain, if not treated in time, the symptoms will aggravate. If the headache is accompanied by vomiting, you should also go to the hospital in time, because these symptoms will appear in diseases such as subarachnoid hemorrhage, brain tumor and cerebral aneurysm.
Persistent headache for more than 1 week (photoAC)
Ordinary oral ulcer is a self-healing disease, and it usually heals within two weeks. However, if oral ulcers are accompanied by repeated attacks, long-term treatment, large ulcer surface, surrounding bulge, abnormal pain, lumps in the gums, general fatigue, and swollen lymph nodes in the neck, you should be vigilant enough.
Because many systemic diseases will manifest as local oral mucosal ulcers, such as systemic lupus erythematosus, Behcet’s disease, rheumatism, etc., often have repeated oral ulcers. Oral ulcers that have not healed for a long time are also at risk of cancer.
2023-07-28 08:54:26
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