Face, Arms, Speech, Time. The NHS is explicit that stroke symptoms can pass on their own and you should still call 999 — including if the signs appeared within the last 24 hours and have gone.
The FDA is blunt about it: the entire plant is toxic, including the pollen and the water in the vase. Treatment delayed beyond 18 hours usually means irreversible kidney damage.
100 to 120 compressions a minute, at least 5cm deep. The American Heart Association says immediate CPR can double or triple survival — and you do not have to give rescue breaths for it to work.
Chocolate and onions are the famous ones. Grapes and xylitol are the dangerous ones — for grapes there is no established toxic dose, and a single sugar-free sweet can drop a dog's blood sugar hard enough to collapse it.
The NHS says 15 to 30 minutes under cool running water, then cling film laid over — not wrapped. The folk remedies people reach for make burns worse.
A study of nearly a million UK dogs found only 21.7 per cent of heatstroke cases were cooled before reaching a vet — and most of those used a method that does not work. Cold water is not dangerous. Waiting is.
The procedure is different for a baby under one and a child over one. Back blows and chest thrusts for babies; back blows and abdominal thrusts for children. Never abdominal thrusts on a baby.
Between 1 and 5 per cent of cats have it. The signs are a dry cough, wheezing, and a crouched posture with the neck stretched out — and open-mouth breathing is an emergency.
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