10 Facts About Constitutional symptoms

Signs and Constitutional symptoms are the observed or detectable signs, and experienced Constitutional symptoms of an illness, injury, or condition.

Signs and Constitutional symptoms are not mutually exclusive, for example a subjective feeling of fever can be noted as sign by using a thermometer that registers a high reading.

Cardinal signs and Constitutional symptoms are specific even to the point of being pathognomonic.

Nonspecific Constitutional symptoms are very general that can be associated with a wide range of conditions.

The Constitutional symptoms include weight loss, headache, pain, fatigue, loss of appetite, night sweats, and malaise.

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The following terms are used for negative Constitutional symptoms – hypoesthesia is a partial loss of sensitivity to moderate stimuli, such as pressure, touch, warmth, cold.

Positive Constitutional symptoms are those that are present in the disorder and are not normally experienced by most individuals and reflects an excess or distortion of normal functions.

Negative Constitutional symptoms are functions that are normally found but that are diminished or absent such as apathy and anhedonia.

Neuropsychiatric Constitutional symptoms are present in many degenerative disorders including dementia, and Parkinson's disease.

Neurological and psychiatric Constitutional symptoms are present in some genetic disorders such as Wilson's disease.