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 |