Other Symptoms
Reduced Appetite
A reduced appetite occurs when you have a reduced desire to eat. This symptom
is also known as anorexia, which is different from the eating disorder anorexia nervosa. A wide range of conditions can cause your appetite to decrease, ranging from mental to physical illness. A loss of appetite is often accompanied with unexplained weight loss, malnutrition, and fatigue. Causes of reduced appetite include:
– Bacteria or viral infection
– Emotional distress including sadness, depression, grief, anxiety.
– Eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa
– Pregnancy
– Medication
– Chronic liver disease
– Kidney failure
– Heart failure
– Liver inflammation (hepatitis)
– HIV
– Dementia
– Hypothyroidism
– Cancer, especially cancer of the colon, stomach, ovaries, pancreas.
Unexplained weight loss
Unexplained weight loss is the noticeable drop in body weight when the person is not trying to lose weight through diet, exercise, or lifestyle changes. Causes of unexplained weight loss include:
– Alcohol or drug abuse
– Inflammatory Bowel Disease (Crohn’s Disease, Ulcerative colitis)
– Diabetes
– Pancreatitis
– Medical causes of dysphagia (difficulty swallowing)
– Dementia
– Coeliac Disease (Gluten intolerance), uncommon in Asian demographics
– Cancer
Jaundice
Jaundice is the condition where your skin and the whites of the eyes turn yellow because of a high level of bilirubin (yellow bile pigment) in your blood. Jaundice usually indicates an issue with the liver, the gallbladder, and bile ducts, which manage the excretion of bilirubin. Causes of Jaundice include:
– Gallstones
– Hepatitis
– Alcohol
– Autoimmune disorders
– Gallbladder inflammation
– Haemolytic anaemia
– Haematoma resorption
– Certain medications
– Liver cancer
– Gallbladder cancer
– Pancreatic cancer
Other symptoms
Vomiting, Nausea,
Abdominal Pains
Bloatedness
Stomach Pain
Blood in stool
Diarrhoea, Constipation
and Intestinal Pain