Infectious Diseases

Green mucus with a little blood can mean that your body is fighting an infection, such as a cold or a sinus infection. It may happen when your nasal tissues are irritated or inflamed.

Finding a little blood in your snot in the morning can be due to mild nasal dryness or irritation that happens overnight and is often not a serious problem.

Finding a little blood in your snot in the morning can be due to mild nasal dryness or irritation that happens overnight and is often not a serious problem.

Blood in mucus from the nose is usually from a small nosebleed, which can happen if the inside of your nose becomes dry or irritated.

Recovery from a Mycoplasma pneumonia infection typically takes 1 to 3 weeks, depending on the severity of the infection and the individual's overall health. Treatment usually involves antibiotics, which can help alleviate symptoms and speed up recovery.

Tonsillitis can be contagious, especially if it is caused by a viral or bacterial infection. Generally, individuals with tonsillitis should stay home from work or school until they have been on antibiotics for at least 24 hours if the cause is bacterial, or until symptoms improve if it is viral.

Hand, foot, and mouth disease (HFMD) can present with symptoms that overlap with several other diseases. Conditions such as herpangina, chickenpox, measles, and certain viral exanthems can mimic the symptoms of HFMD, making accurate diagnosis important for appropriate management.

Muscle and spine pain in the back is now considered a lingering after effect of COVID-19 infection.

Pain in the chest can occur from COVID infection for a variety of reasons like musculoskeletal pain associated with fever and cough, pneumonia or inflammation of the heart.

Infectious diseases, cancer, autoimmune or inflammatory diseases are the main disease categories to consider with those symptoms in isolation.

Infectious gastroenteritis caused by bacteria and viruses is a likely and common cause of those symptoms.

Headache and fever at the same time can be from a wide range of things: the benign (common cold) to the more serious (bacterial meningitis, brain tumor).

It is not uncommon for the lower back to hurt during a fever due to the body’s inflammatory response to infection and sometimes due to infection in the back itself.

Most helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) infections result in no symptoms.

For men, symptoms may include discharge from the penis, burning with urination, and testicular pain. For women, symptoms may include vaginal discharge or bleeding as well as burning with urination. However, many men and women will have no symptoms with gonorrhea, which is why routine testing or testing after potential exposure is critical.