It is the question everyone asks while hopping on one foot: is it a sprain, or did I break something? The honest answer is that from the outside, even for medical professionals, the two can look nearly identical. Both swell, both bruise, both hurt. Here are the signs that point each way, what to do
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It usually happens in a kitchen, a workshop, or a yard: a slip, a sharp edge, and suddenly you are pressing a towel to a cut and trying to work out whether this needs stitches or just a bandage and time. Here is a simple way to judge it, the first aid to do while
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Fever, a sore throat, and the feeling that you have been hit by a truck. It could be flu. It could be COVID. It could be strep. The three illnesses overlap so much that even experienced providers do not diagnose them by symptoms alone, and the difference matters, because strep needs antibiotics, flu has a
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