Non-Traumatic Emergencies

Asthma is a chronic lung disease. The airways become sensitive to triggers (allergens and irritants). Here's what you need to know.

Detailed information on bee stings and other insect stings, including symptoms and treatment.

Detailed information on bicycle, inline skating, skateboarding, and scooter safety

Detailed information on animal bites and rabies, including symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.

Carbon monoxide poisoning is a life-threatening emergency. It occurs when you breathe in carbon monoxide (CO) fumes.

Cat scratches and bites can cause cat scratch disease, a bacterial infection carried in cat saliva. The bacteria are passed from a cat to a human after the cat licks its paws then scratches human skin.

Use this list as part of a thorough safety check of your home. It can help prevent accidents and injuries.

Detailed information about chemical poisoning.

Detailed information on choking, choking prevention, and doing abdominal thrusts to treat someone who is choking.

Detailed information on potential emergency situations and conditions, including animal bites, rabies, cat scratch disease, appendicitis, asthma attack, chest pain, heart attack, dehydration, heat stroke, fever, food allergy, food-drug interaction, frostb

Detailed information on CPR, including how to become properly trained in CPR.

Dehydration is when you don’t have enough water in your body. Learn more about this condition, including causes, symptoms, prevention, and treatment.

In an emergency, it's easy to forget even the most well-known information. That's why it is vital for you to complete the information in this form for each person in your household.

Every year, millions of adults fall, leading to injuries and emergency room visits. Many of these falls and injuries can be prevented.

A fever is a body temperature that is higher than normal. It usually means there is an abnormal process occurring in the body.

Detailed information on fire and burn safety.

Detailed information on firearm safety and prevention.

Detailed list of advised items for a household first-aid kit.

Detailed information on flea, mite, and chiggers bites

Detailed information on food allergies, including symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment.

A food-medicine interaction can happen when the food you eat affects the ingredients in a medicine you are taking. This prevents the medicine from working the way it should.

Food poisoning (foodborne illness) is caused by bacteria or viruses found in food. Food poisoning symptoms often look like stomach flu (gastroenteritis). Many people with a mild case think they have stomach flu or a virus.

Detailed information on frostbite, including symptoms and what to do if frostbite happens.

Gallstones are lumps of solid material that form in your gallbladder. They are made when the digestive juice called bile gets hard and stone-like. Gallstones can be as small as a grain of sand or as big as a golf ball. Your gallbladder may form 1 large stone, hundreds of tiny stones, or both sizes at the same time.

Hypothermia occurs when body temperature drops below 95°F (35°C). It is a medical emergency. Learn more about symptoms, diagnosis, and treatments.

Your little one will need several immunization shots to help protect them from several childhood diseases, some of which can be deadly. Read on for helpful advice on which shots they need and when--and what to do if they have a minor reaction.

Detailed information on insect bites, including bee stings, flea bites, mite bites, chigger bites, spider bites, tick bites, and lyme disease

Detailed information on lead poisoning.

Lyme disease is an infection caused by the bacteria Borrelia burgdorferi. This spiral shaped bacterium is most commonly spread by a tick bite.

Detailed information on poisoning, preventing poisoning and how to respond in an emergency.

Detailed information on poisoning, preventing poisoning and how to respond in an emergency

Detailed information on preventing unintentional injuries

Detailed information on how to keep you and your family safe.

Detailed information on car safety.

Detailed information on potential emergency situations and conditions, including animal bites, rabies, cat scratch disease, appendicitis, asthma attack, chest pain, heart attack, dehydration, heat stroke, fever, food allergy, food-drug interaction, frostb

Treat all snakebites as though they were venomous. Get to a hospital emergency room as soon as you can.

Detailed information on spider bites, including symptoms and treatment.

Because children's bodies are still growing and their coordination is still developing, children are more at risk for sports injuries than adults.

This sheet discusses the effects of ultraviolet light and the increased risk of skin cancer, including the use of sunscreen as one skin cancer prevention method.

Vital signs are useful in detecting or monitoring medical problems. Vital signs can be measured in a medical setting, at home, at the site of a medical emergency, or elsewhere.

Read on to learn preventive steps to protect children from drowning in homes, pools, and open waters, such as lakes, rivers, and oceans.

Detailed information on when to call for help in an emergency situation

Mushroom poisoning happens when a child eats a mushroom that has poisons (toxins). Here's what you need to know, from symptoms to diagnosis and treatment.

Appendicitis is a medical emergency that happens when your appendix becomes sore, swollen, and diseased.

Human bite wounds are more likely to become infected than dog or cat bites. A healthcare provider should check any human bite that breaks the skin.

Influenza, or flu, is a respiratory tract infection that spreads easily. It is caused by a virus.

A heart attack happens when the blood supply is cut off from the heart muscle, usually because of a blood clot. Without blood and oxygen, the muscle cells are damaged and die.

A stroke, or brain attack, happens when blood flow to your brain is stopped. It is an emergency situation.

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy has helped heal a variety of illnesses. Over the years, research has shown that it can treat many conditions that involve oxygen-starved tissue.

A necrotizing soft tissue infection causes patches of tissue to die. It is a very serious and life-threatening condition needing immediate medical care.