Winter is coming, and it is the peak season for flu , but after November, the COVID-19 epidemic situation in my country is becoming more and more serious. Today, the number of new positive COVID-19 positive cases in a single day has exceeded 20,000!
In early November, Academician Zhong Nanshan spoke at an academic conference, pointing out that the world is currently facing a higher risk of the superposition of respiratory infectious diseases such as influenza and new coronary pneumonia, which will be one of the huge challenges faced this winter. There is a long way to go to prevent and control respiratory infectious diseases! Today, let’s discuss how to distinguish between 1 new crown and influenza? If you are infected with the new coronavirus, how to deal with the problem.
How to distinguish between the new crown and the flu?
The causes of the new coronavirus and influenza are different, and there are certain differences in symptoms and treatment, but it is difficult for ordinary people to accurately judge and need to go to the hospital for testing before the diagnosis is confirmed. But both are infectious diseases. Once the disease is affected, it is easy to cross-infect each other and endanger the family. Therefore, we still need to understand the differences, pay attention to personal protection, and avoid contagion to people around us.
1) Cause: The new coronavirus is caused by the infection of the new coronavirus. The strain is highly contagious and variable. The currently popular mutant strain is Omickron virus, which has weakened its pathogenicity but has strong transmission ability. Influenza is an acute respiratory infectious disease caused by influenza viruses. Influenza A and B are seasonal. my country begins to enter the winter and spring epidemic season of influenza around October every year.
2) Symptoms : Low fever, dry cough, and fatigue often occur in the early stage of the new crown. Some patients experience nasal congestion, runny nose, diarrhea, nausea and vomiting, and the symptoms of mild patients are not obvious. Patients with influenza often show high fever, headache, sore throat, and fatigue. In severe cases, they may experience drowsiness and dyspnea and . Although the symptoms of the two are not exactly the same, they are similar to the symptoms of a cold, and it is difficult to distinguish based on the symptoms alone.
3) Treatment: COVID-19 usually uses PF-07321332/ritonavir tablets, ambavimab/romisvirmusabab injection, intravenous injection of COVID-19 immunoglobulin, or recovery plasma, and severe cases require immunotherapy .
Influenza patients can use antiviral drugs such as oral oseltamivir and inject paramivir injections, which can also reduce fever, relieve cough and reduce phlegm.
If you find that you have a fever, cold, or sore throat, the most reliable way under the current situation is to do a nucleic acid test to eliminate the new crown, and then go to the hospital for influenza antigen screening to eliminate the flu. If you are just a common cold, take some cold medicine to treat the right medicine. What should I do if
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If you are unfortunately infected with the new crown, the country will determine the place for isolation management and treatment based on the condition.
1) If it is a mild case, centralized isolation management will be implemented, and symptomatic treatment and condition monitoring will be carried out during the quarantine period. If the condition worsens, it will be transferred to designated hospitals for treatment. If it is a common, severe, critical or severe high-risk case, it will be transferred to designated hospitals for centralized treatment, among which severe and critical patients will be transferred to the intensive care unit for treatment according to their own condition.
2) Even if you are infected with the new coronavirus, it is mainly asymptomatic and mild, and the use of medication is mainly to relieve symptoms. You may wish to prepare some antipyretic drugs at home, such as ibuprofen or acetaminophen , cough medicine dextromethorphan , phlegm relieving medicine ambroxol or acetylcysteine, Chinese patent medicine Huoxiang Zhengqi Capsule , Jinhua Qinggan Granules , Lianhua Qingwen Capsule , etc. Children can prepare some children's soybean kelp cleavage keratin , antipyretic granules, etc.
3) Take physical measures to avoid infection, wear masks, wash hands frequently, pay attention to ventilation and go to crowded places. Pay attention to nutrition, strengthen physical exercise, and a healthy physical fitness is a prerequisite for preventing infection.
Summary
Finally, I would like to remind everyone to pay attention to cold protection and improve their own immunity . Even if you get the new crown, don’t panic. There are many news about the new crown infection on the Internet. Don’t believe in various news from unknown sources at will. The information released by official authoritative channels shall prevail. At the same time, it is always good to protect yourself no matter how you are. What we can do is protect ourselves, our family, and the people around us.
References:
[1] Diagnosis and treatment plan for novel coronavirus pneumonia (trial ninth edition).
[2] Anonymous. Diagnosis and treatment plan for influenza [J]. Infectious Disease Information, 2018, 31(1):5.
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