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Question 1

What are red flags for pain in the face?

Answer 1

Persistent pain with nil obvious cause
Unexplained weight loss
Trigeminal neuralgia: possible serious cause
Heroes zoster involving he nose
Person >60: consider temporal arteritis, malignancy

Question 2

What are red flags for sore throat?

Answer 2

persistent high fever
failed antibiotic treatment
medication induced agranulocytosis
mouth drooling
sharp pain on swallowing
marked swelling of quinsy
candidiasis