Weight Loss

Normal or Increased Appetite: Diabetes, hyperthyroidism, anxiety, drugs (thyroid), carcinoid, sprue, pancreatic deficiency, parasites.

Decreased Appetite: Depression, anorexia nervosa, gastrointestinal obstruction, neoplasm, liver disease, severe infection, severe cardiopulmonary disease, uremia, adrenal insufficiency, hypercalcemia, hypokalemia, intoxication (alcohol, lead), old age, drugs (amphetamines, digitalis), acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS).


Wheezing


Large airway diffculty (laryngeal stridor, tracheal stenosis, foreign bogy), endobronchial tumor, bronchitis, emphysema, congestive heart failure, pulmonary embolus, anaphylactic, myocardial ischemia.