What may increase your risk for problems from weakness or fatigue?
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What may increase your risk for problems from weakness or fatigue?
Many conditions, lifestyle choices, medicines, and diseases interfere with your ability to heal or fight infection. You may be at risk for a more serious problem from your symptoms if you have any of the following. Be sure to tell your health professional.
Conditions
- Age older than 60
- Surgery to remove the spleen
Lifestyle choices
- Alcohol abuse or withdrawal
- Drug abuse or withdrawal
- Recent travel
Medicines
- Blood-thinning medicines, such as warfarin, heparin, and aspirin
- Corticosteroids, such as prednisone
- Medicines to prevent organ transplant rejection
- Medicines used to treat cancer (chemotherapy)
- Radiation therapy
Diseases
- Adrenal or pituitary gland problems
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)
- Anemia
- Anxiety or panic attacks
- Cancer
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD or emphysema)
- Depression
- Diabetes
- Eating disorders
- Fibromyalgia
- Heart disease, including prior diagnosis of irregular heartbeat (arrhythmia), heart failure, or coronary artery disease
- Infections, such as HIV infection, tuberculosis, osteomyelitis, or a parasite infection, or Lyme disease
- Inflammatory bowel disease
- Kidney disease
- Liver disease
- Malnutrition
- Multiple sclerosis
- Myasthenia gravis
- Parkinson's disease
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Sickle cell disease
- Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE)
- Thyroid disease
Credits
| Author | Jan Nissl, RN, BS |
| Author | Susan Van Houten, RN, BSN, MBA |
| Associate Editor | Denele Ivins |
| Associate Editor | Tracy Landauer |
| Primary Medical Reviewer | William M. Green, MD - Emergency Medicine |
| Specialist Medical Reviewer | Colin Chalk, MD, CM, FRCPC - Neurology |
| Last Updated | February 27, 2007 |
| Last updated: | February 27, 2007 |
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| Author: | Susan Van Houten, RN, BSN, MBA |
| Reviewed By: | William M. Green, MD - Emergency Medicine, Colin Chalk, MD, CM, FRCPC - Neurology |
| Editors: | , Tracy Landauer |
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