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Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome Learning Center
Symptoms could include:
- General Weakness
- Irritable Mood
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Diarrhea and vomiting
- Decreased Urine Out...
- Pale Complexion
- Bleeding Skin Rash
- Fever
- Seizures
- Lethargy
- Bruises
- Blood In Stool
- Yellow Skin
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No Urine Output
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HUS often begins with vomiting and diarrhea, which may be bloody. Within a week, the person may become weak and irritable. Persons with this condition may urinate far less than normal. Urine output may almost stop.
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The clinical history most often seen in patients with HUS is of a diarrheal illness that comes before the anemia and renal disease by five to seven days. Some children have symptoms other than diarrhea. These include belly pain, nausea, and throwi...
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The most common way an E. coli O157:H7 infection is contracted is through the consumption of under-cooked ground beef (e.g., eating hamburgers that are still pink inside). Healthy cattle carry E. coli within their intestines. During the slaughteri...
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The clinical history most often seen in patients with HUS is of a diarrheal illness that comes before the anemia and renal disease by five to seven days. Some children have symptoms other than diarrhea. These include belly pain, nausea, and throwi...
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Weakness is a reduction in the strength of one or more muscles.
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Irritability is an excessive response to stimuli.
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Decreased urine output is defined as producing less than 500 milliliters of urine in 24 hours.
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Paleness is an abnormal loss of color from normal skin or mucous membranes.
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Bleeding under the skin can occur from broken blood vessels that form tiny pinpoint red dots (called petechiae. Blood also can collect under the tissue in larger flat areas (called purpura), or in a very large bruised area (called an ecchymosis.
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Fever is the temporary increase in the body's temperature, in response to some disease or illness. A child has a fever when their temperature is at or above one of these levels: 100.4 F (38 C) measured in the bottom (rectally; 99.5 F(37.5 C) measu...
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A fever is any body temperature elevation over 100.4°F (38°C).
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Normal body temperature varies somewhat from one individual to another but displays a general range and pattern around the "normal" temperature of 98.6°F. Early morning body temperature may be as low as 97°F, and as high as 99.3°F in the afternoon...
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An elevated body temperature. While the standard for normal body temperature is 98.6°F (37°C), normal body temperatures actually fluctuate within a range of one to two degrees, making it impossible to formulate a precise definition of fever based ...
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Fever is defined as an abnormally high body temperature or a regulated rise to a new set point of body temperature. While a body temperature above 100°F(37.8°C) is considered to be a fever by some clinicians, a significant fever is usually defined...
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A fever is any body temperature elevation over 100°F (37.8°C).
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Hyperthermia involves raising the body's core temperature as a means of eradicating tumors. The treatment simulates fever . Some therapies actually bring on fever through the introduction of fever-causing organisms, while others raise body tempera...
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Hyperthermia is the use of therapeutic heat to treat various cancers on and inside the body.
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A seizure is the physical findings or changes in behavior that occur after an episode of abnormal electrical activity in the brain. See also: Generalized tonic clonic seizure; Partial (focal) seizure; Petit mal (absence) seizure; Epilepsy; Fever (...
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A seizure is a sudden change in behavior characterized by changes in sensory perception (sense of feeling) or motor activity (movement) due to an abnormal firing of nerve cells in the brain. Epilepsy is a condition characterized by recurrent seizu...
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A seizure is a sudden change in behavior characterized by changes in sensory perception (sense of feeling) or motor activity (movement) due to an abnormal firing of nerve cells in the brain . Epilepsy is a condition characterized by recurrent seiz...
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A temporary series of uncontrollable muscle spasms brought on by unusual electrical activity in the brain. Also known as convulsion, clonic seizure, or tonic-clonic seizure. A seizure is characterized by a sudden episode of un- controllable brain ...
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It is normal to have periods of low energy when one needs to rest and recuperate. However, if low energy persists and a person continually feels sluggish, disinterested in life, and has low energy, the situation should be investigated by a physician.
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A bruise is an area of skin discoloration. A bruise occurs when small blood vessels break and leak their contents into the soft tissue beneath the skin.
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Bruises, or ecchymoses, are a discoloration and tenderness of the skin or mucous membranes due to the leakage of blood from an injured blood vessel into the tissues. Pupura refers to bruising as the result of a disease condition. A very small brui...
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Bruises, or ecchymoses, are a discoloration and tenderness of the skin or mucous membranes due to the leakage of blood from an injured blood vessel into the tissues. Purpura refers to bruising as the result of a disease condition. A very small bru...
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Bruises, or ecchymoses, are a discoloration and tenderness of the skin or mucous membranes due to the leakage of blood from an injured blood vessel into the tissues. Pupura refers to bruising as the result of a disease condition. A very small brui...
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Bloody stools often indicate an injury or disorder in the digestive tract. Your doctor may use the term "melena" to describe black, tarry, and foul-smelling stools or "hematochezia" to describe red- or maroon-colored stools.
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Jaundice is a yellow color in the skin, the mucous membranes, or the eyes. The yellow pigment is from bilirubin, a byproduct of old red blood cells.
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