Should I go to an urgent care clinic or ER?

Urgent care clinic Brampton staff treats various illnesses. Apparently your ailments can take the treatment also from the hospital emergency room (ER). Still, while not overloading the ER, what is your decision? When should you go to the urgent care and when to the emergency room? At first, it may confuse you. Let’s take a look at

When should you go to urgent care

Sometimes, your family doctor can easily treat your sudden illness. Either an unexpected injury that didn’t break your bones through your skin. Or flu symptoms, or a sprain. Your family doctor’s office is closed. Then, your option is the urgent care clinic.

Urgent care is not emergency care. It’s a medical clinic open even after family doctor’s office hours.

Their staff handle diverse medical problems that need immediate treatment. The urgent care clinic Brampton staff examines and treats symptoms like:

• Abdominal pain
  
• Fever, moderate flu-like symptoms
  
• Dehydration
  
• Sprains and strains
  
• Vomiting or persistent diarrhea
  
• Minor cuts that may require stitches
  
• Wheezing or shortness of breath 

 

And if you have these symptoms:

• Severe burns, serious cuts that may require stitches
  
• Flu symptoms, fever, rash
  
• Seizures
  
• Facial lacerations
  
• Pregnancy with vaginal bleeding
  
• Difficulty breathing
  
• Chest pain
  
• Numbness on one side
  
• Slurred speech
  
• Fainting, confusion in mental state
  
• Broken bones
  
• Head, eye injury 

Then, do not hesitate to go to ER.

Ultimately, you decide. You’ll definitely be in good hands for illnesses we treat at the urgent care clinic Brampton