Everyone Healthy Library
Histoplasmosis
Condition / disease reference page from the Everyone Healthy database.
! Seek urgent medical care if warning signs appear
Some health conditions or symptoms can become urgent. Use this page for education, but seek help quickly if warning signs are present.
Get urgent medical care now if there is any severe, sudden, rapidly worsening or worrying symptom, especially:
- chest pain, pressure or pain spreading to the arm, jaw or back
- trouble breathing, blue lips, severe wheeze or choking
- stroke-like symptoms such as face drooping, arm weakness or speech trouble
- collapse, fainting, seizure, confusion or extreme drowsiness
- severe bleeding, black stools, vomiting blood or major injury
- severe allergic reaction, swelling of the face/throat or widespread rash with breathing trouble
- severe abdominal pain, severe headache, stiff neck or sudden vision change
- signs of severe dehydration, sepsis, high fever with worsening illness, or symptoms in a baby/young child that concern you
Connected health information
Explore this condition in a clear order
Condition overview
Attributes
Linked signs and symptoms
23Each sign/symptom opens its own page and links back to related conditions.
- Breath Shortness (Dyspnoea)
- Chills
- Cough
- Coughing Up Blood (Haemoptysis, Hemoptysis)
- Eye: Vision Impairment
- Fatigue
- Fever (Raised Body Temperature)
- Headache (Cephalgia)
- Liver Enlarged Or Tender
- Lymph Nodes Swollen (Glands)
- Mind: Delirium
- Mouth Ulcer
- Nausea
- Neck Stiff
- Night Sweats
- Pain Joint (Arthralgia)
- Pain: Chest
- Skin Lesions
- Skin Nodules
- Skin Rash
- Sweating (Perspiring)
- Vomiting
- Weight Loss (Body Mass Index Decreased)
Linked drugs / medications
3Medication information is educational only. A doctor or pharmacist should advise whether any medicine is appropriate.
Treatments, therapies and supportive options
1Grouped by treatment type. These are educational database links, not personal treatment recommendations. Evidence labels are shown only where stored in the EH database.
Linked diagnostic tests and investigations
2These are pulled from both EH diagnostic-test link tables, including the older large test-link table.
Biological markers/agents
2This visual map shows biological markers/agents reported as increased or decreased with this condition. These are educational relationships only; test results must be interpreted by a qualified clinician because ranges vary by lab, method, age, sex and clinical context.
Often increased
2- Angiotensin Converting Enzyme (ACE)Reference range exampleAll: 0–45 units/LLinked diagnostic testsAngiotensin Converting Enzyme (ACE) Concentration
- Histoplasma Capsulatum Antibody (Specific Antibody for Histoplasmosis)Reference range exampleAll: 0–1 NegativeLinked diagnostic testsHistoplasma Capsulatum Serology Test (Histoplasmosis Serology)
Often decreased
0No markers in this group.
Introduction / full article
Histoplasmosis
The main information article for this record is not yet available in the database.