Medical history (history of illness) represents an important component in the diagnosis of Chagas disease (American trypanosomiasis).
Family history
- What is the general health status of your relatives?
Social history
- What is your profession?
- Have you been abroad recently? If yes, where exactly? How were the hygienic standards on site?
- Do you remember being bitten by a mosquito?
Current medical history/systemic history (somatic and psychological complaints).
- What symptoms have you noticed?
- How long has this symptomatology been present?
- Have you noticed any skin changes?
- Do you have a fever? If so, what is the temperature? Does the temperature fluctuate?
- Do you suffer from pain? Headache? Joint pain?
- Do you suffer from nausea, vomiting, diarrhea?
- Have you lost weight unintentionally? If so, how much weight in what time?
- Have you noticed any lymph node enlargements?
- Have you noticed water retention on the body?
Vegetative anamnesis incl. nutritional anamnesis
Self anamnesis incl. medication anamnesis
- Pre-existing conditions
- Operations
- Radiotherapy
- Vaccination status
- Allergies
- Environmental history
- Medication history
