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Asthma
Site
Onset
Character
Radiation
Association
Timing
Exacerbating/Relieving factors
Severity
FHx of Asthma
Fits
- Who witnessed?
- Describe the fits
o Limbs erking/spasm
o Uprolling eyes
o Frothing
o Bowel/bladder incontinence
- What was he doing?
- Duration
- Post-ictal drowsiness
- Any recurrence
- Ever happened before
- FHx of fits
Fever
- Onset
- Intermittent
- Temperature – what thermometer? Technique?
- High-grade/low?
- Tx
- GP visits
- Chills/rigors
* Dengue-prone area?
Vomiting
- When started?
- Volume?
- Vomitus? Blood? Food particle? Water?
- Colour – bile-stained? [green]
- Frequency
- Nausea
Diarrhea
- Onset
- Frequency
- Stool – watery? Colour? Blood? Fresh blood? Clots? Colour?
Cough
- + wheezy asthma (at night)
- + syncope increased intrathoracic pressure (+pain +stridor)
- + bovine cough w/ hoarseness laryngeal inflammation/infection/tumor (croup)
Neuromuscular disorder (respiratory muscle weakness)
- + moist chronic bronchitis
- + dry cough asthma after viral infection
Interstitial lung disease (eg: idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis)
- + non-productive, centrally painful pneumonia
- + nocturnal asthma