Hello, Welcome to icliniq.com. I understand your concern. HIV cannot be transmitted through sweat, so the person who shook hands with you cannot have passed the infection to you. If your tests after previous potential exposures were negative, they are conclusive. Regarding your current complaints, fever and sore throat can be associated with swollen lymph nodes as the body responds to fight the infection.
Hello, Welcome to icliniq.com. A dry cough is very common with a change of weather and is often prolonged. It often causes a lot of discomfort, especially in the throat. It can also be associated with seasonal allergies. You will be needing an expectorant along with a drug from the bronchodilator group for dilation of the bronchioles and easy expectoration of mucus.
Hi, Welcome to icliniq.com. Sorry to hear about what you are going through. Basically, from your history, you might be suffering from what is known as serotonin syndrome (when your body has too much serotonin, a chemical that helps control mood, sleep, and other body functions). It is a rare but possible condition that can occur when Lisdexamfetamine (Vyvanse) is taken together with Dextromethorphan (Delsym). It can also occur with Lisdexamfetamine (Vyvanse) and Bupropion (Wellbutrin) taken together due to drug interactions, but I assume you must have been taking them for a while now, so it is not that.
Hello, Welcome to icliniq.com. A pulse or legume, that has a specific kind of sugar called oligosaccharide which cannot be broken down by the human body on its own. For breaking of these oligosaccharides, bacteria in intestines come into action and break these sugars by fermentation and as a result, produce gases in the body owing to flatulence. The pain you are experiencing could be because of that. The other reason could be phantom pain which is a pain in the part of the body which no longer exists.
Hi, Welcome to icliniq.com, I am sorry for what you have had to go through. As you previously did not have MRSA strains, it is possible that now you have hospital-acquired strains in your blood. It is a superbug and superdifficult to treat as it is resistant to drugs of choice so you have get culture and sensitivity test to find out which one is it sensitive to. As you were told to stop other antibiotics and start Bactrim, this means the strain you have got is sensitive to Bactrim. If there is anything else you want to ask, please feel free to contact me.
Hello, Welcome to icliniq.com. Alkaline phosphatase levels are measured to detect any kind of liver or bone disorder in the body. ALP raises with blockage of bile ducts which owing to conditions called cirrhosis, inflammation of the gallbladder, the presence of stones in the gallbladder or maybe due to hepatitis. Bone diseases presenting with high ALP include vitamin D or calcium deficiency. I need answers of a few questions before I can suggest treatment.
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