Children up to age 18
If your child has two or more of these signs, ask your doctor about Primary Immunodeficiency.
It could save your child’s life.
- Four or more new ear infections within 1 year
- Two or more serious sinus infections within 1 year
- Two or more months on antibiotics with little effect
- Two or more pneumonias within 1 year
- Failure of an infant to gain weight or grow normally
- Recurrent, deep skin or organ abscesses
- Persistent thrush in mouth or fungal infection on skin
- Need for intravenous antibiotics to clear infections
- Two or more deep-seated infections including septicemia
- A family history of Primary Immunodeficiency
Adults
If you have two or more of these signs, speak to your doctor about a possible Primary Immunodeficiency.
- Two or more new ear infections within 1 year
- Two or more new sinus infections within 1 year, in the absence of allergy
- One pneumonia per year for more than 1 year
- Chronic diarrhea with weight loss
- Recurrent viral infections (colds, herpes, warts, condyloma)
- Recurrent need for intravenous antibiotics to clear infections
- Recurrent, deep abscesses of the skin or internal organs
- Persistent thrush or fungal infection on skin or elsewhere
- Infection with normally harmless tuberculosis-like bacteria
- A family history of Primary Immunodeficiency
These warning signs were developed by the Jeffrey Modell Foundation Medical Advisory Board. Consultation with Primary Immunodeficiency experts is strongly suggested. ©2009 Jeffrey Modell Foundation