Cold-like symptom

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Introduction: Cold-like symptoms
Causes (712 conditions)
Causes of Types
Diagnostic tests (41 listings)
Questions your doctor may ask (and why) (15 listings)
Combined symptoms
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Cold-like symptoms

Cold-like symptom: Cold-like symptom is listed as an alternate name or description for symptom:

Cold-like symptoms

Causes of Cold-like symptoms (Cold-like symptom): See detailed list of causes below.

Cold-like symptoms (medical symptom): Symptoms similar to the common cold.

Introduction: Cold-like symptom

Cold-like symptoms (medical symptom): Everyone is familiar with the stuffy nose, sore throat, and cough from a common cold. This section focuses on symptoms similar to a runny nose; see also other sections on sore throat, cough, and headache. For comparison see the list of conditions with flu-like symptoms.

Although a cold or other upper respiratory infection is most common, there are several other possibilities. This list includes flu, allergic rhinitis (either perennial rhinitis or seasonal rhinitis), chronic rhinitis, sinusitis, otisis media, bronchitis, and pneumonia. Cold-like symptoms can also be the start of other conditions such as whooping cough, measles, mumps, or mononucleosis.

Article Excerpts for Cold-like symptom:

Cold-like symptoms (medical symptom): Sneezing, scratchy throat, runny nose – everyone knows the first signs of a cold, probably the most common illness known. Although the common cold is usually mild, with symptoms lasting one to two weeks, it is a leading cause of doctor visits and of school and job absenteeism. (Source: excerpt from The Common Cold, NIAID Fact Sheet: NIAID)

Causes of Cold-like symptoms (Cold-like symptom)

The list of medical condition causes of Cold-like symptoms (Cold-like symptom) includes:

All 712 causes of Cold-like symptoms

More Specific Symptoms for Cold-like symptom:

Review the causes of the following types of more specific symptoms for Cold-like symptom:

Runny nose (754 causes)
Stuffed nose (712 causes)
Sneezing (454 causes)
Upper respiratory infection (3 causes)
Acute cough (28 causes)
Acute sinusitis (6 causes)
Allergic Rhinitis (19 causes)
Increased chest phlegm (8 causes)
Nasal Obstruction (80 causes)
Nasal congestion (106 causes)
Nasal allergies (8 causes)
Hay fever (16 causes)
Profuse watery nasal discharge (5 causes)

Related Symptoms for Cold-like symptom

Research the causes of these related symptoms that are similar to, or related to, the symptom Cold-like symptom:

Respiratory symptoms (5166 causes)
Lung symptoms (3280 causes)
Fever (2274 causes)
Flu-like symptoms (168 causes)
Sore throat (512 causes)
Cough (1407 causes)
Flu (168 causes)
Running nose (754 causes)
Rhinitis
Allergic rhinitis (19 causes)
Headache (2433 causes)

Broader Symptom Types for Cold-like symptom:

Research the causes of these symptoms that are more broader types of symptom than Cold-like symptom:

Chills (1045 causes)
Fever (2274 causes)
Sweat symptoms (1699 causes)
Temperature symptoms (2497 causes)
Nose symptoms (2080 causes)
Pain (6458 causes)
Sensations (6520 causes)
Skin symptoms (5992 causes)
Throat symptoms (3410 causes)
Brain symptoms (2787 causes)
Neurological symptoms (9575 causes)
Skin problems (3422 causes)
Sensory symptoms (7134 causes)
Nerve symptoms (9132 causes)
Mouth symptoms (6864 causes)
Common symptoms (8589 causes)
Body symptoms (5672 causes)
Breathing symptoms (3381 causes)
Breath symptoms (3023 causes)
Sick (5751 causes)
Head symptoms (10192 causes)
Face symptoms (8109 causes)

More Symptom Information for Cold-like symptom

For a medical symptom description of 'Cold-like symptom', the following symptom information may be relevant to the symptoms: Cold-like symptoms (symptom). However, note that other causes of the symptom 'Cold-like symptom' may be possible.

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