Diseases Common Signs and Symptoms
Here are the comprehensive and most commonly used signs and symptoms of diseases to read ,review and contemplate for nurses reviewers and practitioners.
| Name of Disease | Signs and Symptoms |
| ACROMEGALY | Coarse facial feature |
| ADDISON’S DISEASE | bronze like skin pigmentation |
| ANGINA | Crushing stubbing pain relieved by NTG |
| APPENDICITIS | rebound tenderness |
| ASTHMA | wheezing on expiration |
| BLADDER CA | painless hematuria |
| BPH | reduced size & force of urine |
| BULIMIA | chipmunk face |
| CATARACT | Painless vision loss, Opacity of the lens, blurring of vision |
| CHICKEN POX | Vesicular Rash (central to distal) dew drop on rose petal |
| CHOLERA | rice watery stool |
| CUSHING’S SYNDROME | moon face appearance and buffalo hump. |
| CYSTIC FIBROSIS | Salty skin |
| CYSTITIS | burning on urination |
| DENGUE | petechiae or (+) Herman’s sign. |
| DIPTHERIA | pseudo membrane formation |
| DKA | Kussmauls breathing (Deep Rapid RR) |
| DM | polyuria, polydypsia, polyphagia |
| DOWN SYNDROME | protruding tongue |
| DUCHENNE’S MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY | Gowers’ sign (use of hands to push one’s self from the floor) |
| DVT | Homan’s Sign |
| EMPHYSEMA | barrel chest |
| EPIGLOTITIS | 3Ds’ Drooling, Dysphonia, Dysphagia |
| FIBRIN HYALIN | Expiratory Grunt |
| GERD | Barretts esophagus (erosion of the lower portion of the esophageal mucosa) |
| GLAUCOMA | Painfull vision loss, tunnel/gun barrel/halo vision (Peripheral Vision Loss) |
| Guillain Barre Syndrome | ascending muscle weakness |
| HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY | Flapping tremors |
| HODGKIN’S DSE/LYMPHOMA | painless, progressive enlargement of spleen & lymph tissues, Reedstenberg Cells |
| HYDROCEPHALUS | Bossing sign (prominent forehead) |
| HYPERTHYROIDISM/GRAVE’S DISEASE | exopthalmus |
| HYPOCALCEMIA | Chvostek & Trosseaus sign |
| INCREASE ICP | HYPERtension BRADYpnea BRADYcardia (Cushing’s Triad) |
| INFECTIOUS MONONUCLEOSIS | Hallmark: sore throat, cervical lymph adenopathy, fever |
| INTUSSUSCEPTION | sausage shaped mass, Dance Sign (empty portion of RLQ) |
| KAWASAKI SYNDROME | strawberry tongue |
| LEPROSY | lioning face |
| LIVER CIRRHOSIS | spider like varices |
| LTB | inspiratory stridor |
| LYME’S DSE | Bull’s eye rash |
| MALARIA | stepladder like fever with chills |
| MEASLES | koplik’s spots. |
| MENIERE’S DSE | Vertigo, Tinnitus |
| MENINGITIS | Kernig’s sign (leg flex then leg pain on extension), Brudzinski sign (neck flex = lower leg flex). |
| MG | descending muscle weakness |
| MI | Crushing stubbing pain which radiates to left shoulder, neck, arms, unrelieved by NTG |
| MS | Charcot’s Triad (IAN) |
| PANCREATITIS | Cullen’s sign (ecchymosis of umbilicus); (+) Grey turners spots. |
| PARKINSON’S | Pill-rolling tremors |
| PDA | machine like murmur |
| PEMPHIGUS VULGARIS | Nikolsky’s sign (separation of epidermis caused by rubbing of the skin) |
| PERNICIOUS ANEMIA | red beefy tongue |
| PNEUMONIA | rusty sputum |
| PTB | low-grade afternoon fever |
| PYLORIC STENOSIS | olive like mass |
| RETINAL DETACHMENT | Visual Floaters, flashes of light, curtain vision |
| RETINO BLASTOMA | Cat’s eye reflex (grayish discoloration of pupils) |
| SHOCK | HYPOtension TACHYpnea TACHYcardia |
| SLE | butterfly rashes |
| TEF | 4Cs’ Coughing, Choking, Cyanosis, Continous Drooling |
| TETANUS | risus sardonicus. |
| TETANY | hypocalcemia (+) Trousseau’s sign/carpopedal spasm; Chvostek sign (facial spasm) |
| TYPHOID | rose spots in abdomen. |
| ULCERATIVE COLITIS | recurrent bloody diarrhea |
