flu-like symptoms
Feverish achiness, chills
Flu-like symptoms are the cluster of physical complaints typical of influenza: fever, chills, body aches, fatigue, headache, and sometimes cough or congestion.
The phrase appears constantly in medical contexts to describe conditions that mimic the flu without confirming it: The medication may cause flu-like symptoms.
Side effects, viral infections, and early-stage illnesses often present this way.
- coughExplosive airway clearing
- rhinovirusCold-causing pathogen
- body achesDiffuse muscular soreness
- feverElevated body temperature
- high temperatureElevated thermal measurement
headache · chills · coronavirus · fatigue · viral infection · muscle aches · sore throat · infection · mononucleosis · prodrome · malaise · feeling under the weather · Lyme disease · adenovirus · bacterial pneumonia · nasal congestion · shortness of breath · ibuprofen
- illness symptomsfever, chills, aches, headache, cough
- Parvovirus
- withdrawalwithdrawing, cash withdrawal, ATM withdrawal, early withdrawal, fund withdrawal
- herpes symptomsblisters, cold sores, itching, lesions, outbreak
- leptospirosisspirochete, Weil's disease, doxycycline, penicillin, antibiotic treatment
- Lyme diseaseLyme disease, tick bite, deer tick, bullseye rash, spirochete
flu-like symptomsgood health
Absence of illness
perfect health · wellness · asymptomatic · clean bill of health · robust health