Monday, October 1, 2007

It's Probably Cancer

If you are feeling a bit under the weather, it's probably cancer. Don't wait for it to spread further; go see your doctor immediately. Here's a little more information from the City of Shanghai's Official Website.

Does patient who catches a cold have to see the doctor?

The first is depended on the light or severe degree of the disease. If the patient has only common symptoms such as cough, sneeze, and his daily life is not influenced, he may wait for one or two days, then he may decide whether to see the doctor according to the change of his disease. If he can not sleep comfortably or his appetite decreases, and he becomes pale and tired, he must go to see the doctor.

The second is depended on whether the patient has other symptoms in addition to cold; such symptoms as serious nausea or vomiting should be suspected to be reactions of brain lesion (for example, meningitis). If the patient has high fever and does not want to eat greasy food, combining with nausea and vomiting, etc, these should be suspected to be reactions of infectious hepatitis. If the onset of disease is very severe, and the patient feels cold then have a fever; and the high fever over 39℃usually lasts without sign of descending, complicated with aching pain of the body and having no appetite; and surrounding people show the same symptoms, that is probably flu. If the patient demonstrates high fever persistently, complicated with dyspnea, severe cough and cyanosis of mouth lips, then the disease should be suspected to be pneumonia.

Cold virus sometimes cause myocarditis. The symptom usually demonstrates as follows: about one week after catching cold, the patient presents with palpitation, chest distress, short breath, ambiguous ache in precordial region and so on, especially when presenting with tachycardia (more than 100 times per minute) and irregular heart beat. The patient with these symptoms should see the doctor in time.

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