Urgent Symptoms

How Urgent Are My Child's Symptoms?

These reasons include, but are not limited to the following:
Difficulty breathing (e.g. choking, stopped breathing, weak breathing, stridor, cyanosis, or other signs of respiratory distress).
Possible anaphylaxis (difficulty breathing or swallowing following medicine, bee sting, food, or other possible allergen).
Severe bleeding (active), which cannot be controlled with direct pressure for a few minutes
Neurological symptoms (e.g. seizure, loss of consciousness, hard to awaken, confusion, altered mental status, stiff neck).
Poisoning, ingestion, drug overdose.
Foreign body – in the airway (choking) or swallowed.
Trauma to the neck or eye.
Electric shock.
Near drowning.
Suicide – threats or attempts.
Psycho-social emergencies (sexual assault, child abuse, domestic violence.)
Bites (e.g. animal, snake, spider, marine animal – not insects or ticks.)
Child older than 2 months of age with fever over 105° F. that dose not come down with medication
Infant less than 3 months of age with fever over 100.4°F.
Severe pain, especially abdomen, head, or chest.
Heat exhaustion or stroke.
Hypothermia.
Purple or blood colored rash.

The following conditions typically require "same day" treatment. Parents should call to schedule an appointment.