When to see a doctor

Certain symptoms act as an alarm to your body to let you know a larger problem is looming. Fortunately, if caught in its early stages, many problems are manageable. At Prevention First, our goal is to alert you of health problems when they are the most treatable in order to relieve pain or to eradicate a problem altogether. Below are a list of indicators that require a physician's attention:

Internal symptoms

• Pain that lasts more than one week
• Persistent nausea or dizziness
• Frequent headaches
• Pressure or tightness in chest
• Persistent or recurring loss of feeling somewhere in the body
• Memory loss
• Loss of coordination
• Fever for many days
• Vision change
• Extreme fatigue
• Persistent breathlessness

External symptoms

• Abnormal bleeding
• Easily bruised
• Joint swelling or immobility
• Enlarged lymph nodes
• Rash that won’t go away
• Seizures
• Blood in urine or stool
• Unexpected changes in weight
• Abnormal bleeding
• Skin discoloration
• Sudden hair loss
• Yellowish tint in skin

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