Stay calm and stay with the person. Time the seizure. Gently ease them to the floor if they’re not already down, turn them on their side to keep the airway
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Low blood sugar causes shakiness, sweating, sudden hunger, dizziness, confusion, and – in severe cases – seizures or loss of consciousness. DKA causes deep, rapid breathing, fruity-smelling breath, extreme thirst,
A DVT (leg blood clot) usually causes one-sided leg swelling, pain, warmth, and reddish or bluish discoloration. A pulmonary embolism (PE) causes sudden shortness of breath, sharp chest pain that
There’s a phrase every stroke specialist lives by: “Time is brain.” During a stroke, the brain loses about 1.9 million neurons every minute that blood flow is blocked. That’s why
Fever is one of the most common — and most misunderstood — symptoms in medicine. Most of the time, it’s the body’s healthy response to infection: a sign your immune
In emergency medicine, a CT scan often makes the difference between a guess and a diagnosis. When you arrive with chest pain, severe abdominal pain, a head injury, or symptoms
Most concussions don’t involve passing out. That’s the first thing every parent, athlete, and adult should know — because the old belief that “I didn’t lose consciousness, so I’m fine”
Abdominal pain is one of the most common reasons people visit the emergency room, and also one of the trickiest to evaluate. The same belly pain could mean a 24-hour
Rotavirus in infants was once almost unavoidable, infecting nearly every child before age five. A vaccine changed that, cutting rotavirus hospitalizations by roughly 80 percent according to Texas Children’s. Even