This document lists signs and symptoms of various respiratory system diseases. Some of the most commonly described symptoms include cough, shortness of breath, fever, weight loss, and chest pain. Specific diseases mentioned and their typical symptoms include tuberculosis (cough, fever, night sweats), bronchitis (cough), pneumonia (fever, breathlessness), asthma (wheeze, cough), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (breathlessness, cough), and lung cancer (cough, weight loss, chest pain). The document provides a comprehensive overview of clinical manifestations of numerous respiratory conditions.

1. Respiratory system: disease signs and symptoms:
 Tuberculosis: cough, fever, night sweat, fever, loss of appetite, weight loss, haemoptysis,
long history, legions on shin, pleuritic pain
 Acute bronchitis: coughing, clear sputum
 Chronic bronchitis: cough productive of sputum on most days for three months of two
consecutive years
 Broncopneumonia: fever, breathlessness, crackles, consolidation, shadowing on x-ray
 Lobar pneumonia: breathlessness, cough productive of small amounts of rust coloured
sputum, consolidation, shadowing on x-ray
 Pulmonary fibrosis: chest pain, dry cough, shortness of breath, decreased tolerance for
exercise, expiration takes longer than inspiration, on inspiration the chest wall moves
inwards.
 Pleurisy: sharp stabbing pain on one side, made worse by movement and inspiration,
cough, cough is painful, rub heard with a stethoscope
 Pneumothorax: short of breath, tearing pain on one side, breathlessness, decreased
movement of chest wall on one side, chest wall more resonant on one side
 Lung cancer: stridor, cough, haemoptysis, weight loss, chest pain, finger clubbing, hoarse
voice, bovine cough, oedema of upper limbs, headaches,
 Mesothelioma: persistent chest wall pain, dyspnoea
 Asthma: wheeze on expiration, cough, tight chest, shortness of breath, symptoms worse at
night
 Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: breathlessness, increased sputum, cough, wheeze,
chest pain, recurrent bronchial infections, respiratory failure, loss of curvature of the
diaphragm
 Emphysema: breathlessness, reduced capacity to expire
 Pleural effusion: chest pain, cough, shortness of breath
 Pulmonary interstitial fibrosis: breathlessness at rest, expiration takes longer than
inspiration, chest wall moves inwards on inspiration on both sides
 Cystic fibrosis: many respiratory infections, malabsorption, bronchiectasis,
 Influenza: runny nose, sore throat, short of breath, cough, headache, lethargy, muscle
ache, fever, nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea
 Acute mountain sickness: headache
 High altitude pulmonary oedema: cough, headache, difficultly walking, tight feeling in
chest, fatigue, weakness, breathlessness, tachycaridia, cyanosis
 Adult respiratory distress syndrome: dyspnoea, cyanosis
 Tuberculosis: cough, weight loss, loss of appetite, fever, night sweats, blood in spit,
 Hypoxia: cyanosis, irritability, reduced intellectual function, reduced consciousness,
convulsion, coma
 Hypercapnia: irritability, headaches, warm skin, bounding pulse, confusion, somnolence,
coma
 Allergic rhinitis: sneezing, runny nose, blocked nose, watery eyes

2.  Anaphylaxis: flushing, itching, nausea, vomiting, swelling of the mouth tougue and
airway, wheezing, drop in blood pressure
 Goodpasture’s syndrome: pulmonary haemorrhage
 Extrinsic allergic alveolitis: fever, cough, breathlessness, flu-like illness, crackles, gradual
onset.
 Sarcoidosis: enlarged lymph nodes
 Rhinovirus: common cold
 Adenovirus: upper respiratory tract infections
 Respiratory syncytical virus/ bronchiolitis: breathlessness
 Legionnaires’: malaise, muscle pain, fever, dry cough, chest pain, breathlessness,
consolidation in the lungs
 Pulmonary embolisms: pleuritic pain, shock, central chest pain, hypoxia, shortness of
breath, tachycardia, cough, haemoptysis, circulatory collapse, mortality
 Decompression illness: pruritic skin rash, limb pain, abdominal pain, vomiting, paralysis,
vertigo, visual loss, collapse, loss of consciousness
 Oxygen toxicity: chest discomfort, irritability, confusion, nausea, vertigo
 Nitrogen narcrosis: decrease in reaction times, clumsiness, poor decision making