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What's Ailing You? Head and chest colds

02:33 PM EDT on Tuesday, September 9, 2008

By NewsChannel 36 Staff
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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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