12 Symptoms You Should Never Ignore
If you experience any of the following symptoms, call 911 or have someone drive you to the nearest emergency room.
IF YOU EXPERIENCE …
IT COULD BE ….
1. Coughing up or vomiting up blood
Tuberculosis, lung cancer, internal bleeding
2. Pain, swelling, redness, or warmth in your leg, possibly with night cramps and/or bluish or white coloration of skin
A blood clot
3. Sudden, severe headache unlike any you've had before
Stroke, aneurysm
4. Loss of consciousness
Dehydration, stroke, seizure, irregular heartbeat or other heart problem, anemia, low blood sugar, drug overdose
5. A wound that gets hot and red, particularly if you also have a fever
Systemic infection
6. Difficulty breathing or shortness of breath that makes you feel as if you're suffocating
Asthma attack, anaphylactic shock, collapsed lung, pneumonia
7. Sudden increase in the number or size of "floaters" in your vision and/or flashes of light in your peripheral vision
Retinal tear or detachment
8. Chest pain or pressure with or without nausea or clamminess; the pain may radiate to your jaw, upper back, shoulders and/or arms
A heart attack
9. Weakness, numbness, tingling or a feeling of heaviness on one side of your body, or a sudden inability to move one side of your body; may be accompanied by problems seeing, speaking, or understanding words, dizziness, fainting, or confusion, and all symptoms may disappear in a minute or two
A stroke or transient ischemic attack (TIA)
10. Loss of appetite, nausea/vomiting with abdominal pain, abdominal swelling, fever, inability to pass gas
Appendicitis, bowel obstruction
11. Sudden change in mental status, such as not knowing where you are or not recognizing people you should know
Stroke or other neurological problem, head injury, infection, seizure, low blood sugar
12. Sudden, severe dizziness
Stroke, heart attack, reaction to medication
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