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What's Ailing You? Head and chest colds
02:33 PM EDT on Tuesday, September 9, 2008
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Our partners at Carolinas HealthCare and Presbyterian Healthcare share "What's Ailing You?" this week:
Carolinas HealthCare:
Urgent Care Centers: Sore throat, Acute Upper Respiratory Infection, Sinuses, Bronchitis, Urinary Tract Infection
Cabarrus Family Medicine: Nausea/vomiting/ stomach pain, Sinus congestion, Ear pain
Lincoln Family Practice: Upper Respiratory Infection, Stomach Virus (gastroenteritis), Sinus infection
CMC-Mint Hill: Significant increase in upper respiratory illness -- cough, malaise, aches. Mostly viral. Seems to be lasting about a week. A few patients with secondary sinus/bronchitis infections. Stress -- generalized anxiety/insomnia and some depression. Some related to economic slowdown. Early part of fall allergy season beginning -- mostly itchy eyes.
Medical Associates of Rock Hill/ Fort Mill: Hypertension, Diabetes, Hyperlipidemia
Presbyterian Healthcare:
Meck Co. (Dilworth Pediatrics): asthma, GI illness and colds
Gaston Co. (Whitestone Family Medicine): URI’s and allergies
Cabarrus Co. (Northgate Family Medicine): pink eye, sinusitis, bronchitis and allergy symptoms
York Co. (Fort Mill Family Practice): sore throats, sinusitis and conjunctivitis
Union Co. (Waxhaw Family Physicians & Sports Medicine): Strep throat, sinusitis and poison ivy
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