Is it better to be infected earlier?

How do patients at home

judge that their symptoms have worsened

and they need to be treated

as soon as possible?

Experts from

the joint prevention and control mechanism

of the State Council

answered the epidemic hot issues

of current public concern.

Is it better to be infected earlier?

Wang Guiqiang, Director of the Department of Infectious Diseases at the Peking University First Hospital, said that the pathogenicity of Omicron had decreased significantly, but some people still had clinical symptoms after infection, including fever, muscle and joint soreness, throat swelling and pain, which would seriously affect the quality of life and normal work. In order to avoid a large number of patients in a short period of time to cause great pressure on medical institutions, actively infecting the virus was not advocated or recommended. Elderly people, especially those who had not been vaccinated, should perform a good protection and try not to be infected during the first round of epidemic peak.

How do patients at home judge that their symptoms have worsened and they need to be treated as soon as possible?

Wang Guiqiang introduced: First, there was dyspnea and shortness of breath; Second, after drug treatment, the fever still exceeded 38.5℃ and lasted for more than 3 days; Third, the original basic disease was aggravated, and the medication could not control the situation, or there was precordial pain; Fourth, children have drowsiness, vomiting, diarrhea, refusal to eat and other symptoms; Fifth, pregnant women had headache, dizziness, palpitation, shortness of breath or abnormal fetal movement.

Yang Ting, Deputy Director of the Respiratory Center of China-Japan Friendship Hospital, reminded that it would be easy to bring further changes to the primary basic disease if the patients with respiratory diseases were infected. Patients could monitor blood oxygen saturation in a timely manner to see if the condition has changed.