Which types of Covid-19 patients can quarantine at home? What preparations shall be made in home quarantine? And what health monitoring shall be done? A few days ago, the reporter interviewed Han Xudong, leader of Nantong Covid-19 pandemic prevention and control expert team and president of Nantong Third People’s Hospital.
‘Among people infected with Covid-19, those who have no symptoms or mild symptoms can quarantine at home. If there are other family members at home, it is suggested that patient shall stay in a bedroom with individual toilet, to reduce contact with family members.’ Han Xudong said that if there were old people who were bedridden for long time, if symptoms were not severe, they could quarantine at home also. For people with severe symptoms, it is not suitable to quarantine at home, they should go to medical institutions for treatment in time.
For home quarantine, various preparations shall be made. Han Xudong suggested that, firstly thermometer shall be prepared, to do home body temperature monitoring; at the same time, relevant medicine including antipyretic and Antiviral Chinese patent medicine shall be prepared; apart from that, disinfectant shall be prepared, to do home disinfection, to reduce the amount of virus in the air. In terms of life at home, Han Xudong suggested people to prepare some fresh fruits and vegetables, and relevant food materials for light diet.
During the quarantine, doing health monitoring is very important. ‘Firstly changes of condition of illness after infection shall be judged, and body temperature measurement shall be done every day.’ Han Xudong emphasized that if there was continuous increase of body temperature, cough, expectoration, shortness of breath and other obvious symptoms, please go to the nearest fever clinic (consulting room) in time. During home quarantine, patients shall do prevention measures well to avoid transmitting to family members, at the same time, they shall open windows for ventilation at regular intervals and do deep breaths at their individual rooms, do proper exercise to boost immunity.
By Feng Qirong
