1. You aren’t moving enough. One of the biggest mistakes we see patients with knee pain make is to begin using their knees less.
Treating the pain when it happens can help manage it. Follow the “RICE” procedure — rest, ice, compression, elevation — to calm your knee pain. If your knee hurts, stop what you’re doing and rest. Apply ice to reduce inflammation, consider wearing a compression bandage, and elevate your knee when resting.
The outcome can be discomfort, pain, and a higher propensity for knee injury. In this article, Dr. Marc Jacobchick helps to unpack the #1 mistake that makes bad knees worse – a lack of exercise.
If you are experiencing severe symptoms such as high fever (above 100.4°F), persistent vomiting or diarrhea, difficulty breathing or shortness of breath, chest pain, severe headache, confusion, or sudden dizziness, it is recommended to seek urgent medical attention.
An urgent care or primary care provider can help manage severe flu cases by providing antiviral treatments. These medications reduce the severity of symptoms experienced while shortening how long the infection lasts. However, antiviral drugs do not directly treat the infection.
Antiviral drugs can help treat flu illness: Antiviral drugs are different from antibiotics. Flu antivirals are prescription medicines (pills, liquid, intravenous solution, or an inhaled powder) and are not available over the counter. Antiviral drugs can make illness milder and shorten the time you are sick.
Urgent Care Centers are staffed by medical professionals who can diagnose your flu with a blood test and prescribe antivirals if you are eligible for them.
If your flu is detected early (usually within two days of getting sick), your urgent care doctor may prescribe antiviral treatment such as Tamiflu. Antiviral treatment can shorten the duration of your illness and possibly reduce the severity of your flu symptoms, but it is not a cure.
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