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See additional information This tool is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always read the label before taking any over-the-counter (OTC) medications. The label identifies the active ingredient(s) and contains other important information including warnings about possible drug interactions and side effects. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition. Never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking it because of something you have read on WebMD! If you think you may have a medical emergency, call your doctor or 911 immediately. WebMD does not recommend or endorse any specific products or services. Reliance on any information provided by WebMD is solely at your own risk. 3) What if my symptom isn’t associated with a specific body location (for example, “chills”)? • If you are not sure what body area your symptom falls under, you can type your symptom in the main search box or select the “General Symptoms” category. • There is also a separate section for skin symptoms only. 4) What if I don’t see my symptom on the list? • When a body location is selected, the “most common symptoms” are displayed first, but you can also switch tabs to see “All” symptoms. • You can also use the category-specific search box to search for all symptoms in that category. • The search box on the main page includes ALL symptoms in all cat...

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More than three years into the pandemic, physicians and researchers are still struggling to understand long COVID. A recent study at Mass General Brigham has tried to take a step toward defining the condition affecting millions of people. PBS NewsHour digital health reporter Laura Santhanam joins John Yang to discuss the findings. Read the Full Transcript • John Yang: According to government data, more than 100 million people in the United States have had COVID. For most of us, it's meant a few miserable days. But for about 15 percent of those who have gotten the virus it's meant prolonged symptoms, what's come to be known as long COVID. More than three years into the pandemic physicians and researchers are still struggling to understand a lot of things about the condition. Laura Santhanam, our news digital health reporter has written a lot about long COVID. Laura, one thing they've had trouble with as defining it actually what it is there was a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association recently that tries to stick a step toward definition. What did they find? • Laura Santhanam: That's exactly right. So researchers at Mass General Brigham in Boston, they surveyed thousands of long COVID patients and basically asked them through, you know, to tell them, you know, what are your symptoms. And so what they found were, you know, really echoing a lot of what you hear about from people who've been dealing with long COVID, right? They took 37 symptoms, whittled them...

WebMD Symptom Checker: A symptom checker is a tool that allows you to input your symptoms and find out what might be causing them. It can be a helpful way to figure out if you need to see a doctor or if your symptoms are something that can be managed at home. There are a few different ways to use a symptom checker. Some symptom checkers will ask you to input your symptoms and then give you a list of possible causes. Others will ask you a series of questions about your symptoms and then give you a list of possible causes. If you’re not sure what your symptoms mean, or if you’re worried about your health, it’s always a good idea to talk to a doctor. But a symptom checker can be a helpful tool to use if you just want to get a better understanding of what might be going on with your body. There are a few different symptom checkers available online. One popular option is To use WebMD’s Symptom Checker, you’ll need to input your symptoms and then answer a series of questions about them. Once you’ve done that, the Symptom Checker will give you a list of possible causes. Table of Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • • How do Symptom Checker Works? The vast majority of symptom checkers use algorithms that are based on decision trees. A decision tree is a flowchart-like structure in which each branch represents a decision that the checker must make, and each leaf represents a possible outcome of that decision. The checker begins by asking the user a series of questions about their sym...

• Ensure symptoms are spelt correctly, a list of suggestions appears to help you after you've typed a few characters. • If your symptom is not included in the list that appears, just type it in and hit enter. • Enter symptoms using medical language as much as possible. For example, enter "abdominal pain" instead of "tummy hurts". • Use text, not numbers. For example, enter "high blood pressure" instead of "180/120 bp". If you’re feeling under the weather but aren’t sure what it could be, an online symptom checker can help you identify whether you need to seek immediate medical attention. Online symptom checkers are calculators that ask users to input details about their signs and symptoms of sickness, along with their gender, age and location. Using computerised algorithms, the self diagnosis tool will then give a range of conditions that might fit the problems a user is experiencing. They can also advice someone whether to seek advice from a healthcare professional and the level of urgency in which to do so. How do I know if I’m sick? Using an online symptom checker is simple. For instance, you might be a 45 year old woman from the UK who is currently experiencing headache, a fever and a sore throat. Inputting this information into the symptom checker will give you some likely ‘common’ diagnoses. These include: But the self-diagnosis calculator will also give a list of rarer but more serious diagnoses in a tab called ‘red flags’. Here you’ll find links to our patient info...

• A Symptom Checker result is not a diagnosis — it is for informational purposes and does not qualify as a medical opinion. • Do not use Symptom Checker for emergencies. For all medical emergencies, please call your local emergency number immediately. • All information provided is safe and anonymous. Please see our privacy policy for more information. • Symptom Checker is a preliminary diagnostic and triage tool powered by Infermedica . The tool leverages data science experts, physicians, and artificial intelligence to assess more than 1,500 symptoms and 800 conditions. A person who needs a flu checkup has aches, pain, fever, fatigue, and other symptoms of the flu, an infection caused by a virus that attacks the lungs, nose, and throat. The flu is caused when you inhale bodily fluids from an infected person who coughs, sneezes, or propels the virus into the air. The flu can be mild to severe to life-threatening, but most cases can be treated at home with over-the-counter medication and lots of fluids and rest. Common Causes: Viral germs acquired from an object or when they travel via air droplets after someone coughs, sneezes, or talks. Common Treatment(s): Prescription Antiviral Medication, Cold Medicine, Bed Rest, Fluids. Abdominal pain describes dull or sharp aching and/or cramping in the organs and tissue in the area between the pelvic region and chest. Common causes can include a bellyache due to poor diet to stomach ulcers or, rarely, cancer of the digestive tract or...

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