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Community Health Volunteer's Training Manual - Population Council

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Module 4 The work of <strong>Community</strong> <strong>Health</strong> Volunteers<br />

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Signs and Symptoms<br />

12. A day or more without<br />

being able to urinate<br />

13. A day or more without<br />

being able to drink any<br />

fluids<br />

14. A person with a stiff neck<br />

with arched back, with or<br />

without a stiff jaw<br />

How to position very pale an unconscious skin: person:<br />

red or normal skin:<br />

(shock, fainting, etc)<br />

(heat stroke, stroke, heart problems)<br />

very pale skin:<br />

red or normal skin:<br />

(shock, fainting, How etc) to position an unconscious (heat person: stroke, stroke, heart problems)<br />

Signs:<br />

Signs:<br />

Sometimes fever and chills<br />

or headache Signs:<br />

Sometimes fever and chills Sometimes fever and chills<br />

Sometimes or headache pain or headache<br />

in the side<br />

Sometimes pain Sometimes pain<br />

in the side<br />

Painful in the urination side<br />

and need to<br />

Painful urination<br />

urinate Painful very urination and need to<br />

often and need to<br />

urinate very<br />

often<br />

urinate very<br />

Urine<br />

often<br />

may be cloudy Urine may be cloudy<br />

or reddish (bloody) or reddish (bloody)<br />

Urine may be cloudy<br />

Unable or reddish to hold (bloody) Unable to hold in urine<br />

in urine (especially true of children).<br />

(especially true of children).<br />

Unable to hold in urine<br />

(especially true of children).<br />

Signs:<br />

15. A person who develops<br />

yellow eyes and skin colour Does not want to eat.<br />

Not all people with yellow Often goes eyes days have Yellow Fever.<br />

(jaundice),<br />

without eating anything<br />

Not all people with yellow eyes have Yellow Fever.<br />

16. Black stools like tar, or<br />

vomit with blood<br />

Signs:<br />

Sometimes there is pain on<br />

Signs:<br />

Does not want to eat.<br />

Often goes days<br />

without<br />

Does not<br />

eating<br />

want<br />

anything<br />

to eat.<br />

Often goes days<br />

the right side near the liver<br />

or the lower ribs.<br />

without eating anything<br />

Sometimes there is pain on<br />

the right side near the liver<br />

or<br />

Sometimes<br />

the lower ribs.<br />

there is pain on<br />

the right side near the liver<br />

or the lower ribs.<br />

An ulcer<br />

very pale skin:<br />

(shock, fainting, etc)<br />

Not all people with yellow eyes have Yellow Fever.<br />

is an open sore in the stomach<br />

or gut.<br />

Tiny bumps or sores with much<br />

itching – first between fingers,<br />

on the wrists or waist.<br />

Pimples or sores with pus or<br />

inflamation often from<br />

scratching insect bites. May<br />

cause swollen lymph nodes.<br />

Irregular, spreading sores with<br />

shiny, yellow crusts.<br />

red or normal skin:<br />

(heat stroke, stroke, heart problems)<br />

Sometimes it feels –<br />

though the bladder<br />

does Sometimes not empty Sometimes it feels – it feels –<br />

completely. though the bladder though the bladder<br />

does not empty does not empty<br />

Sometimes completely. completely.<br />

there is<br />

pain in the lower Sometimes there is<br />

back Sometimes (kidneys) pain there in the is lower<br />

pain in the lower back (kidneys)<br />

Sometimes back (kidneys) the pain<br />

Sometimes the pain<br />

seems to go down seems to go down<br />

the Sometimes legs. the the legs. pain<br />

seems to go down<br />

In the serious legs. cases In serious cases<br />

(kidney disease)<br />

(kidney disease) the feet and face<br />

the In feet serious and cases face may swell.<br />

may (kidney swell. disease)<br />

the feet and face<br />

may swell.<br />

May have fever<br />

After a few days, the eyes<br />

turn yellow.<br />

Sight or small of food may<br />

May have fever course vomiting<br />

May have fever<br />

After a few days, The urine the eyes turns dark yellow<br />

and the stools become whitish<br />

turn yellow.<br />

After a few days, the eyes<br />

turn yellow.<br />

Sight or small of food may<br />

course vomiting<br />

Sight or small of food may<br />

course vomiting<br />

The urine turns dark yellow<br />

and the stools become whitish<br />

The urine turns dark yellow<br />

and the stools become whitish<br />

scabies<br />

infection from<br />

bacteria<br />

impetigo<br />

(bacterial infection

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