This winter season has been a rough one for cold & flu in Michigan! Your author is speaking from personal experience: I’ve been through two rounds of sickness this season, starting in early December and continuing into the new year. According to the Michigan Health & Hospital Association (MHA), 818 people have been hospitalized with the flu in Michigan, as of Jan 8th. That’s twice as many hospitalizations as this time last year.
Something i’ve always struggled with is knowing when it’s time to seek medical attention for cold/flu symptoms. By the time I realized I had been coughing every day for three weeks, it seemed like it was time to visit an Urgent Care and i’m glad I did. My only regret is that I don’t live close enough to a Lakes Urgent Care location, or it would’ve been my first choice.
It’s easy to think that your symptoms will eventually go away on their own, but the certified, ER-trained providers at Lakes Urgent Care have the experience—and the diagnostic tools—to figure out what’s going on and get you feeling better faster.
Lakes Urgent Care is one of the few urgent care facilities to offer a complete array of on-site diagnostics and was the first urgent care facility in metro Detroit to offer a revolutionary new test that can quickly diagnose the flu with nearly 100% accuracy and strep throat with 98% accuracy. Using the Cobas Liat PCR System by Roche Diagnostics, a major advancement in testing accuracy for flu and strep throat, takes about twenty minutes on-site, enabling a Lakes Urgent Care provider to make a fast, more confident and reliable treatment decision while you wait.
Using this diagnostic tool, Lakes Urgent Care can confirm a diagnosis and treat you on the spot. And if the test comes back negative, antibiotics will not be prescribed unnecessarily. We can also prescribe medications like cough suppressants that outperform over-the-counter products to make your symptoms more manageable.
So if you’re suffering at home with symptoms you just can’t shake, a quick visit to one of our two Lakes Urgent Care locations (in Livonia and West Bloomfield) will give you peace-of-mind and a shorter, more comfortable experience, getting you feeling better and back on your feet sooner.