Under the new situation of epidemic prevention and control, home isolation has become an extremely important measure for epidemic prevention and control.

How to conduct self-health monitoring while staying at home after infection?

What does abnormal body temperature, breathing, physical discomfort, etc. mean?

Do mild and asymptomatic infections need medication?

What medicines can I keep on hand at home?

In this small class, Ye Huan, a well-known front-line expert and director of the Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine of Beijing Chest Hospital, is invited to give you detailed answers.

  Q1 How to conduct health monitoring in home isolation?

  [Concurrent] Ye Huan, director of the Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Beijing Chest Hospital

  One is the monitoring of body temperature. We need to measure body temperature regularly to check whether we have a fever.

If the high fever persists, for example, for three or four days, it means that there may be severe illness, and we should be vigilant.

  Another thing we need to see is the patient's breathing status, such as the breathing rate. The breathing rate is extremely fast, indicating that the patient may have respiratory failure and severe pneumonia.

  Another problem is coughing. If you cough violently, it often indicates that the disease has entered the lower respiratory tract, and you should pay attention to the occurrence of pneumonia.

  In addition, we should also pay attention to the fact that some patients may have symptoms such as chest pain and stomach pain, which also indicate that the condition may be aggravated.

  Q2 How to use drugs scientifically

  [Concurrent] Ye Huan, director of the Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Beijing Chest Hospital

  With medication, the fever will be reduced when it is time to reduce it. For example, if it is 39 degrees, the fever is very uncomfortable.

If antipyretics are not used at this time, the body may suffer certain damage, so you should use antipyretics in time.

But we must pay attention when the fever goes down, especially the elderly must be cautious when the fever goes down, and we must drink plenty of water.

In addition, we also have some medicines to alleviate the symptoms of severe cold poisoning, and some western medicines for colds can also relieve the discomfort symptoms of this kind of cold, such as body aches, nasal congestion, and runny nose.

  But don't rely too much on this kind of medicine, because these medicines can relieve symptoms to a certain extent, but at all they need the self-limitation of the virus itself. Before that day, the disease will not be cured.

  Q3 Do mild and asymptomatic infections need medication?

  [Concurrent] Ye Huan, director of the Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Beijing Chest Hospital

  If it is a mild or asymptomatic infection, generally speaking, no treatment is required, because there is no specific drug, and there is no specific drug for anti-new coronavirus, and the virus is basically self-limiting. Those infected with symptoms are all self-limiting diseases. Generally, within a week, the basic symptoms will improve or even be cured.

  Q4 What medicines can be prepared at home?

  [Concurrent] Ye Huan, director of the Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Beijing Chest Hospital

  We can prepare some cold granules, Lianhua Qingwen, Jinhua Qinggan, the antipyretics I mentioned just now, ibuprofen, loxoprofen, acetaminophen, these are the medicines that we can spare, that is, It's almost like a common cold medicine.

It is best to have a thermometer and a blood pressure monitor at home. If possible, especially for the elderly with some underlying diseases, it is best to prepare a finger pulse oxygen saturation meter.

In this way, we can measure blood pressure, heart rate, oxygenation, and body temperature.

  Q5 Experts remind: You don't need to test nucleic acid every day with a calm mind

  [Concurrent] Ye Huan, director of the Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Beijing Chest Hospital

  Everyone should pay attention, our nucleic acid test does not need to be tested every day, because a lot of guidelines have been given now. Generally speaking, after 5 days of home isolation for this disease, a considerable number of people will turn negative. At this time, it will take 5 days We will test the nucleic acid again in the future to see if it has turned negative.

So don't worry after you get the new crown, stay at home for a period of time, and we can return to society in about a week.

  Reporter Jean Baokui Duyan reports from Beijing

Responsible editor: [Li Ji]