Diagnosing Your Health Symptoms For Dummies

Written by an experienced family doctor and packed with practical and sound advice, Diagnosing Your Health Symptoms For Dummies is a reference for everyone who wants to find out when they do and don't need to worry about their health. It will cover over 100 common, important, potentially serious and often worrying symptoms and emergencies, such as headaches, chest pain, dizziness, fever, bleeding, tiredness or stress. This reassuring guide will also include guidance on how to perform basic physical assessments, as well as a run through of key first aid techniques. Perfect for both allaying fears and encouraging those with serious symptoms to seek professional advice, this guide will be an essential family health bible. Diagnosing Your Health Symptoms FD includes: Part I: Spotting and Assessing Illness: The Basics Chapter 1: Thinking about Medicine Chapter 2: Dealing with Medical Problems Chapter 3: Conducting a Symptom Check Chapter 4: Looking for Out For Signs of Illness Part II: Looking at Emergencies and All-Over' Symptoms Chapter 5: Coping with Medical Emergencies Chapter 6: Approaching Non-Specific Symptoms Chapter 7: Symptoms Affecting the Wider Body Part III: From top to toe: looking at specific areas of the body Chapter 8: Look at Me! Sussing Out Skin Problems Chapter 9: Trouble at the Top: Symptoms Around the Head and Problems with the Senses Chapter 10: Close to Your Heart: Exploring Chest Problems Chapter 11: Untangling Tummy and Bowel Problems Chapter 12: Getting Lower: Urinary and Other Disturbances Down There' Chapter 13: Bones and Groans Part IV: Dealing with health problems in people close to you Chapter 14: Spotting Illness in Your Baby Chapter 15: Illness in Your Toddler or Pre-School Child Chapter 16: Problems in Your School-Age Kids Chapter 17: Dealing with Adolescent Problems Chapter 18: Understanding Women's Troubles Chapter 19: Looking at Some Specific Men's Issues Chapter 20: Dealing with Common Later Life Problems Part V: Spotting mental health problems Chapter 21: Tackling Anxiety, Depression and Stress Chapter 22: Approaching Unusual Thoughts and Behaviour Chapter 23: Addressing Alcohol and Drug Problems Part VI: The part of tens Chapter 24: Ten First Aid Essentials: Helping Yourself and Others Chapter 25: Ten Reliable Health Websites Chapter 26: Ten Medical Tests you May Need Glossary: 100 Useful Medical Terms

Written by an experienced family doctor and packed with practicaland sound advice, Diagnosing Your Health Symptoms ForDummies is a reference for everyone who wants to find out whenthey do and don't need to worry about their health. It will coverover 100 common, important, potentially serious and often worryingsymptoms and emergencies, such as headaches, chest pain, dizzinessfever, bleeding, tiredness or stress. This reassuring guide willalso include guidance on how to perform basic physical assessmentsas well as a run through of key first aid techniques. Perfectfor both allaying fears and encouraging those with serious symptomsto seek professional advice, this guide will be an essential familyhealth bible.Diagnosing Your Health Symptoms FD includes:Part I: Spotting and Assessing Illness: The BasicsChapter 1: Thinking about MedicineChapter 2: Dealing with Medical ProblemsChapter 3: Conducting a Symptom CheckChapter 4: Looking for Out For Signs of IllnessPart II: Looking at Emergencies and 'All-Over'SymptomsChapter 5: Coping with Medical EmergenciesChapter 6: Approaching Non-Specific SymptomsChapter 7: Symptoms Affecting the Wider BodyPart III: From top to toe: looking at specific areas of thebodyChapter 8: Look at Me! Sussing Out Skin ProblemsChapter 9: Trouble at the Top: Symptoms Around the Head andProblems with the SensesChapter 10: Close to Your Heart: Exploring Chest ProblemsChapter 11: Untangling Tummy and Bowel ProblemsChapter 12: Getting Lower: Urinary and Other Disturbances'Down There'Chapter 13: Bones and GroansPart IV: Dealing with health problems in people close toyouChapter 14: Spotting Illness in Your BabyChapter 15: Illness in Your Toddler or Pre-School ChildChapter 16: Problems in Your School-Age KidsChapter 17: Dealing with Adolescent ProblemsChapter 18: Understanding Women's TroublesChapter 19: Looking at Some Specific Men's IssuesChapter 20: Dealing with Common Later Life ProblemsPart V: Spotting mental health problemsChapter 21: Tackling Anxiety, Depression and StressChapter 22: Approaching Unusual Thoughts and BehaviourChapter 23: Addressing Alcohol and Drug ProblemsPart VI: The part of tensChapter 24: Ten First Aid Essentials: Helping Yourself andOthersChapter 25: Ten Reliable Health WebsitesChapter 26: Ten Medical Tests you May NeedGlossary: 100 Useful Medical Terms

Introduction.Part I: Spotting and Assessing Illness: The Basics.Chapter 1: Understanding Your Health Problems.Chapter 2: Conducting a Symptom Check.Chapter 3: Looking Out for Signs of Illness.Chapter 4: Managing Your Health Problems.Part II: Looking at Emergencies and 'All-Over'Symptoms.Chapter 5: Coping With Medical Emergencies.Chapter 6: Approaching Non-Specifi c Symptoms.Chapter 7: Covering Symptoms that Affect Your Wider Body.Part III: Going From Top to Toe: Looking at Specific Areas ofthe Body.Chapter 8: Sussing Out Skin Problems.Chapter 9: Trouble at the Top: Head Symptoms and Problems withthe Senses.Chapter 10: Exploring Chest Problems.Chapter 11: Untangling Tummy and Bowel Problems.Chapter 12: Getting Lower: Urinary and Other Disturbances 'DownThere'.Chapter 13: Groaning Bones and Moaning Muscles.Part IV: Dealing with Health Problems in SpecificGroups.Chapter 14: Spotting Illness in Your Newborn, Infant orToddler.Chapter 15: Assessing Illness in Your Pre-School Child.Chapter 16: Identifying Health Problems in Your School-AgeChildren.Chapter 17: Dealing With Teenage Health Troubles.Chapter 18: Understanding Women's Troubles.Chapter 19: Looking at Men's Issues.Chapter 20: Dealing with Health Problems in Later Life.Part V: Approaching Mental Health Problems and AddictiveBehaviour.Chapter 21: Tackling Depression, Stress and Anxiety.Chapter 22: Considering Unusual Thoughts, Feelings andBehaviour.Chapter 23: Addressing Addictive Behaviour and SubstanceMisuse.Part VI: The Part of Tens.Chapter 24: Ten (okay, Nine) Things to Know About First Aid.Chapter 25: Ten Reliable Websites and Helplines.Chapter 26: Ten Medical Tests You May Need.Index.