Medical observation at home isolation = home health monitoring? What is the difference between the two? Experts from Wuhan Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention have explained their doubts. 01 It is best to live alone for medical observation at home. If you live wit

Home isolation medical observation = home health monitoring? What is the difference between the two? Wuhan Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention experts explain doubts.

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Home isolation medical observation

It is best to live alone. If you live with your family, you should use a single room and try to use a separate bathroom. You should try to limit your daily life and dining in an isolated room.

When you have close contact with other family members, you must wear masks in a standardized manner.

Test body temperature once a day and once a night. Once suspicious symptoms such as fever, dry cough, fatigue, sore throat, loss of smell (taste), and diarrhea occur, they should be reported to the community management personnel in a timely manner.

cooperates with staff to come to the door for nucleic acid sampling.

People with home quarantine and co-residents are not allowed to go out during home quarantine, because they need to go out with special people and cars and take personal protection if they go out with medical treatment.

Keep the room open and ventilate frequently, and do a good job of daily cleaning of homes and disinfecting shared areas such as bathrooms and bathrooms.

Domestic waste is put into plastic bags and placed in a special trash can.

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Home health monitoring

Choose to live in a room with better ventilation and try to use a separate bathroom.

Test body temperature once a day and once a night. If you experience suspicious symptoms such as fever, dry cough, fatigue, sore throat, loss of smell (taste), and diarrhea, you should seek medical treatment in time.

cooperates to complete nucleic acid testing according to prevention and control requirements.

Do not go out during home health monitoring. If you are seeking medical treatment, you must take personal protection when going out and try to avoid taking public transportation.

Keep the room open and ventilate frequently, and do a good job of daily cleaning and disinfecting of homes.

Try to avoid close contact with family members and advocate separate meals.

Disease control experts remind: Everyone is the first person responsible for their own health. We must always keep the string of epidemic prevention and control tight, actively cooperate with epidemic prevention and control measures, take personal protection, and jointly block the spread of the virus. Thank you everyone who has contributed to the fight against the epidemic.

(Source: Wuhan Release Yangtze Daily Editor: Lu Yanli)