symptômes de froid

20:02 Mar 26, 2017 

Hi,
I unfortunately can't give you much more information for confidentiality reasons and because the whole thing is not even a paragraph long.
This is an email sent by the physician to the pharmaceutical company about a patient who suffered from these side effects. These side effects are in bullet point and the one I have issues with is top of the list.
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20:43 Mar 23, 2017 

An extract from the original source text is the best context to have, including the punctuation, such as the inverted commas you mention. I know you've given us your English rendering, but it might help to have the original FR text.
Perhaps even some of the background story might help as in the heading you have indicates "serious adverse events", which seems a little ominous.
I'm going to be areal pain and ask for other info too, such as who is the writer of the text, the intended reader and the purpose for which the text is being written.
The quotation marks could simply be an indication that the writer is reporting verbatim what the patient reported.

19:40 Mar 23, 2017 

The actual word order matters here. You have told us that "The two other symptoms are: colored expectorations and lymph nodes behind ears," but how does all this appear in the actual wording of the source text? The problem is that while all three things could be symptoms reported by the patient, they could, equally, all be signs observed by the doctor. However, there is a difference between a patient reporting that they feel cold and a doctor noting that they are cold to the touch or have a low body temperature.

In any event, the French word for the common cold is not "froid".

15:48 Mar 23, 2017 

The fact that it's in quotes suggests it may be the patient's own description, so there's no point trying to interpret what they mean. It doesn't mean cold as in the virus.

15:48 Mar 23, 2017 

I unfortunately don't have much.
The two other symptoms are: colored expectorations and lymph nodes behind ears.
It's bizarre that the author put it in quotations?
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15:29 Mar 23, 2017 

yes, I think fuller context would be helpful, mine was a bit of a knee-jerk reaction. I wouldn't have thought "feeling cold" came under SAEs.

15:29 Mar 23, 2017 

What kind of medication is being used? Some medication does cause flu symptoms.

15:13 Mar 23, 2017 

Could even mean he's got frostbite!
Could you post some context please? An extract of the original containing the term which is posing a problem is usually the best way to get useful suggestions.