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What Causes Low Grade Fever, Abdominal Pain And Headache?

I returned from Guatemala one week ago. While I was still there, I developed body aches, low grade fever, malaise, abdominal pain and headaches. There were sometimes loose stools, but only a few instances of watery diarrhea. I saw an infectious disease doctor and through blood work he ruled out malaria or dengue. He started me on Cipro (500mg 2x per day) for 3 days. When I woke up yesterday morning, I had some flat, red patches on my ankle and a few on my calves. This is new. Any thoughts?
posted on Fri, 4 Jul 2014
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Hello dear,
I understand your concerns.You apparently had symptoms fitting into a viral syndrome-body ache,fever,malaise,headache,loose stools and abdominal pain.It likely was a viral infection only.Now, adding on to the possibility of viral infection,you are developing flat red patches-which are likely hemorrhagic manifestations.Overall,it appears to be a full spectrum of viral hemorrhagic fever.Please continue the developments with the infectious disease specialist,you earlier contacted.I hope it helps.
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What Causes Low Grade Fever, Abdominal Pain And Headache?

Hello dear, I understand your concerns.You apparently had symptoms fitting into a viral syndrome-body ache,fever,malaise,headache,loose stools and abdominal pain.It likely was a viral infection only.Now, adding on to the possibility of viral infection,you are developing flat red patches-which are likely hemorrhagic manifestations.Overall,it appears to be a full spectrum of viral hemorrhagic fever.Please continue the developments with the infectious disease specialist,you earlier contacted.I hope it helps.