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During a consultation, your doctor will use various techniques to assess the symptom: Odor symptoms. These will include a physical examination and possibly diagnostic tests. (Note: A physical exam is always done, diagnostic tests may or may not be performed depending on the suspected condition) Your doctor will ask several questions when assessing your condition. It is important to openly share any pertinent information to help your doctor make an accurate diagnosis.
It is also very important to bring an up-to-date list of all of your all medical conditions, medications including dosages, and names of numbers of any specialist you see.
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Why: to determine if acute or chronic.
Why: e.g. breath, body, stool, foot.
Why: e.g. may suggest Psychogenic halitosis (i.e. anxiety about breath odor often without having it) if you have noticed the breath odor and others have not.
Why: to establish the possibility of breath odor being due to poor hygiene or anaerobic infections of the mouth.
Why: to establish the possibility of mouth or dental disease as cause of breath odor.
Why: to establish possibility of body odor being due to poor hygiene.
Why: certain medications may cause breath odor.
Why: to determine possibility of alcohol as cause of breath or body odor.
Why: cigarette smoking is a direct cause of body and breath odor and may increase the risk of cancer of the mouth, throat, larynx and trachea which also may cause breath odor.
Why: certain foods can precipitate breath odor or odor to flatus e.g. garlic, fish, curry, onions, caffeine, asparagus.
Why: caffeine can stimulate sweat activity and cause body odor.
Why: may be cause of body odor.
Why: e.g. on waking? - may be cause of breath odor.
Why: may suggest vaginitis or urethritis as the cause of body odor.
Why: may suggest tinea pedis (Athlete's foot) as the cause of foot odor.
Why: may suggest steatorrhea ( fatty, pale colored, extremely smelly stools that float in the toilet and are difficult to flush away) due to excess fat in the stool and are characteristic of malabsorption of nutrients which may be due to celiac disease, chronic pancreatitis, previous gastrectomy and cystic fibrosis. May also represent Giardia infection.
Why: may suggest alcoholism, diabetic ketoacidosis, renal failure and hepatic coma - may all be a cause of breath or body odor.
Why: e.g. rapid breathing, vomiting, unwell, dehydrated - may cause sickly sweet breath odor.
Why: e.g. jaundice, bruising, swollen abdomen, leg swelling, drowsiness, stupor or coma - may cause sweet breath odor.
Why: e.g. poor energy, poor appetite, frequency of urination, need to urinate at night, nausea, vomiting, itching - may cause urine-like or fish-like breath odor due to ammonia.
Why: e.g. cough, sputum production, fever, shortness of breath, post-nasal drip - may cause putrid breath odor.
Why: e.g. sore throat, difficulty swallowing, acid reflux - may cause breath odor.
Why: e.g. painful urination, frequency of urination - may cause body odor.
Why: e.g. abdominal cramps, flatulence and bubbly foul smelling diarrhea.
Why: e.g. long history of bad breath and recurrent sore throats before noticing the common presenting symptoms of regurgitation of undigested food. As the pouch grows it presses on the esophagus and causes difficulty with swallowing. The neck lump changes in size and often disappears.
The following list of conditions have 'Odor symptoms' or similar listed as a symptom in our database. This computer-generated list may be inaccurate or incomplete. Always seek prompt professional medical advice about the cause of any symptom.
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