What information should you provide to your doctor for an online medical consultation.

  In the Internet era, all communication and transactions are convenient and fast. The only network consultation, because it is not a face-to-face consultation, the doctor’s medical opinion on the consultation is mainly based on the patient’s reflected medical history, symptoms and examination results. In the past three years, the author has completed more than 900 online consultations with parents of children. Because parents are eager to seek treatment for their children and have insufficient medical knowledge, most of the information provided is not focused, which makes it more difficult for doctors to analyze and judge.  So what is the key information you should provide to the doctor for online medical consultation?  1. The complaint should include three elements: symptom characteristics, time and location: for example, “high fever, irritating cough for three days” (symptom characteristics – high fever, irritating cough, time – three days, location – respiratory tract). location – respiratory tract), and “vague pain in the right lower abdomen for 8 hours” (symptom characteristics – vague abdominal pain, time – 8 hours, location – right -8 hours, location – right lower abdomen), or “inattentiveness in class for one year” (symptom characteristics – inattentiveness, time –2. Description of symptoms related to the complaint: for example, whether the fever is accompanied by nasal congestion, runny nose, cough, coughing and sputum. Whether the abdominal pain is accompanied by diarrhea, nausea, vomiting and other symptoms.  3. Past history, personal history, history of trauma surgery and history of infectious diseases related to the disease should be informed.  If the suspected asthma patient should recall whether the child had milk moss (eczema) as a child and whether there are asthma patients in the family. If the child has any allergic rhinitis or other diseases. If the child has growth retardation, the doctor should be informed of the mother’s pregnancy status (disease, medication, etc.), whether the child was born at full term, the mode of delivery (natural, cesarean, forceps), birth weight, birth score, feeding method (artificial, breast, mixed feeding), etc.  4. Examination: Inform the doctor of the recent blood test results, chest X-ray, CT, etc. for comprehensive analysis and judgment.