Symptom Logging

Logging how you feel alongside what you eat turns two vague impressions into a record you can actually look at — and one you can show a clinician.

Logging a symptom

On the web, open Track, then Symptoms. On the phone, Log Symptom from the tracking dashboard.

Choose the Symptom.

Set the Severity, from 1 to 5.

Add Notes (optional) if there is something worth remembering — what you had eaten, how long it lasted, what helped.

Click Log symptom.

Your recent entries are listed underneath with their severity, and you can delete any of them.

What you can log

ClapDiet carries 37 symptoms in seven groups:

General - fatigue, fever, chills, weakness, malaise, night sweats

Digestive

Neurological

Cardiovascular

Musculoskeletal

Mood and sleep

Skin

If what you want is not in the list, pick the closest one and describe it in the note.

Getting a useful record

Log at the time, not from memory. Severity in particular is very hard to reconstruct a day later.

Be consistent about severity. It only has to mean the same thing to you across entries; it does not have to mean the same thing to anyone else.

Say what you ate in the note when you suspect a food. That is the detail that makes a pattern visible later.

An important limit

A symptom log is a record, not a diagnosis. ClapDiet does not tell you what is causing a symptom, and a pattern you notice in your own log is a question to take to a clinician, not an answer.

Seek medical attention rather than logging it if you have chest pain, difficulty breathing, a severe allergic reaction, or any symptom that is severe or getting rapidly worse.

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