Children’s Urgent Care in El Cajon, CA

You certainly can take your child to urgent care under many circumstances. Most urgent care clinics can see patients of any age, including children, and provide pediatric urgent care. It’s important to keep in mind, though, that urgent care is for non-emergency health situations only. For emergency situations, the ER (emergency room) is the only option for care. An example of an emergency situation for a child is a fever in an infant.

There are lots of instances, though, when urgent care is the best choice for healthcare. You should go to urgent care whenever a situation is non-life-threatening but urgent, like when your child:

• Has a minor sports injury or another injury
• Has a minor illness like the flu
• Needs a physical exam right away for sports or school
• Is behind in their immunization schedule and needs a shot
• And in other similar situations

Urgent care can provide non-emergency care quicker than the ER, a physician, or a pediatrician can. Urgent care is also quite affordable for many people.

This is another service urgent care can provide! If your child needs a prescription written up, urgent care can do this for you, or if your child needs a prescription refilled, urgent care can do this instead. After, they can send the prescription to your neighborhood pharmacy for easy pickup. Since you don’t need an appointment to see an urgent care doctor, you can just go there, get the prescription, and go home in next to no time. You can get many other services from an urgent care provider, all available on a walk-in basis.

Here at East County Urgent Care and Walk-In Clinic, we’re able to provide the services we’ve mentioned and many more. Here’s a list of some of the common children’s care services we offer:

• Prescriptions and prescription refills
• Pediatric physical exams, sports physicals, school physicals, and others
• Sports injury treatment and treatment for other minor injuries
• Treatment for minor illnesses or infections like strep throat
• Immunizations
• Lab work
• Digital X-rays
• Doctor’s notes
• Advice for parents
• Referrals to see specialists for conditions like ADHD
• And many more kinds of pediatric healthcare

Feel free to reach out to us to inquire about any of our services. You’re also welcome to just come visit us in person. We’d be delighted to meet you and your child and become a part of your child’s healthcare team!

East County Urgent Care is located over at 1625 E Main St # 100, El Cajon, CA 92021. You can come visit us today if you like, no appointment necessary, or you can call our clinic with any questions for us. We’re available to you and your young one 7 days a week.

Don’t hesitate to reach out or come to our clinic if your child needs our care. We can see you right away and help your child right on the spot. We look forward to your visit! We serve patients from El Cajon CA, Wells Park CA, Rancho San Diego CA, Hillsdale CA, Alpine CA, Santee CA, Jamul CA, and BEYOND.