Emergency Care for Urgent Situations: Skin Rashes
Emergency Care for Urgent Situations: Skin Rashes When you have a skin rash, there is a noticeable change in the texture or color of your skin causing your skin to become irritated or swollen and hence becoming visibly red, itchy or raised and bumpy. Chances are that most of us have had a rash at […]
Emergency Care for Urgent Situations: Sinus Infections
Emergency Care for Urgent Situations: Sinus Infections With winter just around the corner at the end of the year, you should prepare for more than just giving out gifts as this is the season where getting sick is common. Sinus infections, also known as sinusitis, is one of the sicknesses that are prevalent during the […]
Emergency Care for Urgent Situations: Seizures
Emergency Care for Urgent Situations: Seizures A seizure occurs when there is abnormal electrical activity in the brain. There are different types of seizures and while there are those that may come and go nearly without being noticed, there are those, in severe cases, that may lead to convulsions where one’s body shakes violently and […]
Emergency Care for Urgent Situations: Pneumonia
Emergency Care for Urgent Situations: Pneumonia Pneumonia is an infection in one or both lungs and is mostly caused by bacteria, viruses as well as fungi or parasites in less common situations. It is a lower respiratory infection of the lungs. It causes the inflammation of the air sacs in your lungs, called alveoli, which […]
Emergency Care for Urgent Situations: Mosquito Borne Illness
Emergency Care for Urgent Situations: Mosquito Borne Illness For such small animals, mosquitos do cause lots of havoc and devastation, with mosquito borne illnesses, especially malaria, being among the leading causes of hospitalizations and fatalities in the world. It is worth noting that only female mosquitos bite humans. This is because the human blood serves […]
Emergency Care for Urgent Situations: Migraines
Emergency Care for Urgent Situations: Migraines Migraines are usually a moderate or severe headache that is felt as a throbbing or pulsing pain, usually on one side of the head. Most cases a migraine is accompanied by an extreme sensitivity to light as well as nausea and vomiting in other circumstances. Migraines can be debilitating […]
Emergency Care for Urgent Situations: Insect Bites
Emergency Care for Urgent Situations: Insect Bites Chances are that most of us, if not all of us, have suffered from an insect bite at one time or the other. The most common insect bites include being bitten by mosquitos, flies, ants, bees, wasps among others. Mosquito bites in particular are quite common, especially during […]
Emergency Care for Urgent Situations: Headaches
Emergency Care for Urgent Situations: Headaches Headaches are one of the most common medical conditions out there and chances are that most of us, if not all of us, have experienced a headache at one point or the other. When you are experiencing a headache, the pain may range from uncomfortable to painful or to […]
Emergency Care for Urgent Situations: Fever / Flu
Emergency Care for Urgent Situations: Fever / Flu During flu season, it is highly likely that you, or someone close to you, will contact the flu especially if you are not up to date with your flu shots. It is a pretty common condition and one that afflicts a substantial number of the population every […]
Emergency Care for Urgent Situations: Dislocations
Emergency Care for Urgent Situations: Dislocations We all know how important a role our bones play in our body when it comes to support, movement and locomotion and how they come together in the various joints in our bodies. A dislocation, therefore, is an injury where the ends of your bones in the body are […]