🩺 Symptom Guide
Numbness / Paraesthesia
Assess urgently for stroke/TIA, spinal cord or cauda equina compression, seizure-related sensory symptoms, toxic-metabolic causes, and evolving neurological deficit.
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Red flags
- Sudden onset unilateral numbness
- associated weakness, facial droop, or speech disturbance
- severe headache
- reduced consciousness
First actions / assessment
- ABCDE first
- record full vitals, GCS if altered, and capillary glucose immediately
- determine exact onset and whether symptoms are sudden, transient, progressive, unilateral, bilateral, dermatomal, glove-and-stocking, or associated with weakness, speech symptoms, facial symptoms, visual symptoms, headache, neck/back pain, bladder/bowel change, trauma, or seizure activity
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