Symptom
Irritability
A state of heightened psychophysiological excitability characterized by a lowered threshold for annoyance, impatience, or anger, with disproportionate affective or behavioral responses to minimal stimuli, and may reflect underlying mood (depression, bipolar, anxiety, PTSD, ADHD), neurologic (insomnia, alcohol/caffeine withdrawal), endocrine (PMS, menopause, thyroid imbalances), or systemic pathology (hypoglycemia, vitamin B deficiency, infection, fever).
Also known as: Anger, Annoyance, Agitation, Frustration
Referencing diagnoses
- Encephalitis
- Graves disease
- Herpes simplex
- Hydrocephalus
- Hypernatremia
- Hyperthyroidism
- Hypocalcemia
- Kawasaki disease
- Lead toxicity
- Lyme disease
- Meningitis
- Neuroblastoma
- Osteomyelitis
- Retropharyngeal abscess
- Staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome
- Toxic nodular goiter
- Vitamin B12 deficiency
- Wilms Tumor
Note: Lists existing diagnoses in Diagnotize only.