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# When an animal is sick or injured

Open the animal's **Records** tab, choose **Add Record**, then **Sick or injured**, and note what you see. Creatures can keep every check and treatment for that illness together in a health concern until the animal is better.

If **Sick or injured** is not in the short list, choose the last item in the menu. It starts with **Browse all**, such as **Browse all 17 record types**. There, **Sick or injured** is the first choice under **Health**.

## Log what you notice

1. Under **What did you notice?**, tick each sign you see, such as **Off feed / not eating** or **Coughing**. Use **Other signs** for anything not listed. For a routine check where all is well, tick **No problems seen**.

![Sick or injured form with Off feed / not eating and Coughing ticked](https://cdn-test.creatures.com/e34/fe0/56e/df78e.png?width=780)

2. Set **Appetite** and **How are they doing?** (from **Just noticed** to **Recovered**).
3. If you took a temperature, enter it with its **Unit**. This field shows only for species where it applies.
4. Note any **Fluids, drench or feed given**.
5. Under **Talked to a vet?**, choose **No**, **By phone or message** or **Vet visit**. With a vet, you can add the **Vet name** and **What did the vet advise?**
6. Check the **Date**, add **Notes** if you like, and choose **Save Record**.

Health checks start private. Turn on **Make public** only if you want others to see the signs, temperature and vet notes.

## Start a health concern

A health concern is a private folder for one illness or injury. It keeps each check and treatment together and counts the days since it started.

When you tick a sign, **Start a health concern:** turns on, with a title made from the first two signs. Change the title if you like, or untick it if you don't need a concern.

![Start a health concern ticked with the title Off feed / not eating, Coughing, above Eating less, Just noticed and a temperature of 103.8 °F](https://cdn-test.creatures.com/359/743/415/fa2d7.png?width=780)

If the animal already has an open concern, the form shows **Part of a health concern (optional)**. Choose **Add to:** and the concern's name to add this record to it, or pick it under **Choose a concern** if there is more than one. **Medication**, **Examination**, **Test Result**, **Procedure**, **Routine Care**, **Physical Measurement** and **Other** records offer the same choice.

![Part of a health concern with an Add to: Bloat button on a treatment form](https://cdn-test.creatures.com/97a/8d0/63c/0afcc.png?width=780)

## Follow up until they recover

An open concern shows as a card at the top of the animal's Records, with its start date, day count and number of entries.

![Bloat health concern card with Add update, Log treatment and Resolve](https://cdn-test.creatures.com/d30/9c6/b2d/261cc.png?width=780)

- **Add update** logs a quick check: how they're doing, plus notes.
- **Log treatment** opens a **Medication** form already filed with the concern. For withdrawal days, see [Vaccinations, treatments and vet visits](https://help.creatures.com/en/article/health-and-medical-records-1nh5rnc/).
- **Resolve** closes the concern.

Forgot to file earlier records? Choose **Group records into a health concern** from the **Add Record** menu or the card's three-dot menu. On a phone, it is also in the three-dot menu next to **Add Record**. Tick the records and choose **New health concern** or an existing one under **Add to**. Then choose the button that counts your picks, such as **Group 3 records**.

## Resolve or reopen a concern

1. Choose **Resolve** on the concern card.
2. Pick an **Outcome**: **Recovered**, **Ongoing (managed)**, **Died**, **Culled or sold** or **Other**.
3. Check **Resolved on**, add a **Note (optional)**, and choose **Resolve**.

![Resolve health concern with outcome choices Recovered, Ongoing, Died, Culled or sold and Other](https://cdn-test.creatures.com/4ae/85b/b9b/d9482.png?width=780)

Shortcut: when you set **How are they doing?** to **Recovered** on an update, tick **Also mark this concern Recovered**.

A concern shows in Records as one folded row with all its entries, both while it is active and after you resolve it. Resolving a concern does not end a withdrawal hold from its treatments.

To reopen a concern, open its row in **Record history**, choose **Open concern**, then choose **Reopen**. **Remove grouping** deletes only the folder, and every record stays in Records.

### Related information

- [Vaccinations, treatments and vet visits](https://help.creatures.com/en/article/health-and-medical-records-1nh5rnc/)
- [The animal records tab](https://help.creatures.com/en/article/the-animal-records-tab-leeb9e/)
- [Run a FAMACHA eye-score round](https://help.creatures.com/en/article/run-a-famacha-eye-score-round-x7dlhu/)