10 Mononucleosis Symptoms
Reviewed: Dr. Mera
Symptom #10: Anorexia
Anorexia is a medical condition where the patient experiences a lack or loss of appetite for food. In many acute inflammatory diseases, such as mononucleosis, systemic inflammation evokes an array of brain-mediated responses including fever, and anorexia. Both fever and anorexia are prostaglandin dependent.
Furthermore, patients may experience odynophagia (pain when swallowing) associated with tonsillitis and/or pharyngitis caused by the virus. This may also account for lack or decreased appetite in patients with mononucleosis.
Note that this symptom does not refer to the eating disorder, anorexia nervosa.
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