Understand common symptoms and warning signs.
These guides are structured for safety: emergency signs first, then self-care, when to see a doctor, Nepal context, and useful records to keep.
Fever
A high body temperature, commonly caused by infection but sometimes a sign of serious illness.
Cough
A cough can happen with viral illness, allergy, asthma, pneumonia, tuberculosis, smoking, or other lung problems.
Chest pain
Chest pain can come from the heart, lungs, stomach, muscles, anxiety, or other causes and needs careful attention.
Shortness of breath
Shortness of breath means breathing feels difficult, uncomfortable, or faster than usual.
Abdominal pain
Abdominal pain can come from indigestion, infection, urinary problems, gallbladder disease, appendix problems, pregnancy-related causes, or other conditions.
Headache
Headache is common, but sudden, severe, or unusual headache can sometimes be serious.
Dizziness
Dizziness can mean light-headedness, spinning sensation, imbalance, or feeling faint.
Vomiting
Vomiting can happen with stomach infections, food poisoning, pregnancy, medicines, migraine, or serious abdominal illness.
Diarrhoea
Diarrhoea means passing loose or watery stool more often than usual.
Burning urine
Burning urine can happen with urinary infection, dehydration, stones, sexually transmitted infections, or irritation.
Back pain
Back pain is common and often improves, but some patterns need medical assessment.
Joint pain
Joint pain can be caused by injury, viral illness, arthritis, gout, infection, or inflammatory disease.
Rash
A rash is a change in skin colour, texture, or appearance and may be caused by allergy, infection, eczema, scabies, or other conditions.
Itching
Itching can happen with dry skin, allergy, eczema, scabies, liver or kidney problems, or medicine reactions.
Swollen leg
Leg swelling can happen from injury, infection, vein problems, heart, kidney, liver disease, or blood clots.
Palpitations
Palpitations mean feeling the heartbeat is fast, strong, irregular, or skipping beats.
Tiredness
Ongoing tiredness can be related to sleep, stress, anaemia, thyroid disease, infection, diabetes, depression, or other causes.
Weight loss
Unplanned weight loss means losing weight without trying and can have many possible causes.
Bleeding in stool
Blood in stool can come from piles, fissures, infection, inflammation, ulcers, or bowel disease and should be assessed.
Yellow eyes / jaundice
Yellow eyes or jaundice can happen when bilirubin builds up in the body and may relate to liver, bile duct, blood, or infection problems.