Symptom Guide
Your Symptoms. Your Care. Your Choice.
Use the grid below to choose the best care option for you and your loved ones.
| Symptoms |
Primary Care
Primary Care $$ |
Urgent Care
Urgent Care $$ |
Virtual Visit
Virtual Visit $ |
Emergency ER $$$$$ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Allergic reaction where it's hard to breathe | ||||
| Allergies | ||||
| Asthma attack - inhalers are not helping and difficulty breathing | ||||
| Asthma attack - inhalers are working some | ||||
| Back pain | ||||
| Burns - severe | ||||
| Burns - minor | ||||
| Bladder infection (UTI) | ||||
| Bone breaks (large bones or serious breaks) | ||||
| Bone breaks (minor) | ||||
| Care for life-long health problems (diabetes, high blood pressure) | ||||
| Chest pain | ||||
| Cough with stuffy or runny nose, sore throat like a cold | ||||
| Coughing or throwing up blood | ||||
| Cuts that are deep or bleeding that won't stop | ||||
| Cuts - minor | ||||
| Dizziness or vertigo | ||||
| Ear pain, eye pain or infection | ||||
| Exams for school, camp, work | ||||
| Fever over 104 degrees (adult) | ||||
| Flu-like symptoms, such as a fever, achy body, cough | ||||
| Headache | ||||
| Headache - severe | ||||
| Insect stings and bites | ||||
| New medications or prescription refills | ||||
| Passing out or blacking out | ||||
| Poisoning* | ||||
| Rashes and other minor skin problems | ||||
| Seizures | ||||
| Shots (vaccines) to prevent illness, such as the flu | ||||
| Sinus infections | ||||
| Snake bites* | ||||
| Sprains | ||||
| Sports physicals | ||||
| Stomach pain - severe | ||||
| Stomach pain - minor, throwing up, loose stools | ||||
| Stroke symptoms (dizziness, unable to stand, headache, blurry vision, numbness in face, arms and/or legs, impaired speech) | ||||
| Trauma or very bad injury | ||||
| Trouble breathing | ||||
| Work-type injury or exams, workers' comp |
*Indiana Poison Center: 800.222.1222