🩺 Symptom Guide
Diarrhoea
Assess urgently for dehydration, sepsis, invasive/bloody diarrhoea, abdominal sepsis, inflammatory bowel pathology, toxicological causes, and high-risk pediatric illness.
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Red flags
- Shock or haemodynamic instability
- severe dehydration
- altered mental status
- persistent vomiting with poor oral intake
First actions / assessment
- ABCDE first
- determine whether emergency admission is needed
- record full vitals, hydration status, capillary refill, mental status, urine output where possible, and capillary glucose if unwell
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