Urgent care is a popular choice when you don't want to have to spend the time and money involved in using a hospital emergency room. For some things, you obviously need to go to the emergency room, but for many of the urgent healthcare needs you have, you can use urgent care. In Vienna, VA, Dr. Hanibal Mahdi and Dr. Mohammed Al-Kadiri of HealthCheck have, between them, more than 60 years of experience in emergency medicine, and they are eminently qualified to provide urgent care.

You’re Running a Fever

If you have a fever that is accompanied by a sore throat or earache, this is a good reason to head to urgent care. This should be a temperature in excess of 101 and up to 103. If it is a child 102.2 and ear pain is the reason for getting medical care. This can be an ear infection and can be treated quite easily. A sore throat can be strep and that is an easy test to get quickly.

You Get a Minor Cut

Who hasn't been working in the kitchen and cut their hand? Dropped something and been cut by the shards? Sometimes it can be quite a gash and require stitches. Going to urgent care in Vienna, VA can get you stitched up and out in no time at all. 

Strains or Sprains

Strains and sprains are all too common and require an x-ray to make sure nothing is broken. This can be easily achieved at urgent care and then the required treatment can be recommended. 

You're Sneezing

These days, there can be quite a number of things that are making you sneeze. It can be an allergy, a cold, or the flu. The necessary tests can be performed and treatments provided.

Rashes

Many factors can cause a rash, but things like poison ivy spread quickly and, if they are on the face and moving toward the eyes, they need to be treated quickly.

Migraine Headache

When you have a migraine that is interfering with your life and not responding to the medical treatments you have available to you, then a visit to urgent care gets you the medical care you need.

Contact Us Today

When you are in need of urgent care, Dr. Mahdi and Dr. Al-Kadiri at HealthCheck in Vienna, VA can provide the services you need. Give the office a call at 571-407-7004.