24/05/2021
While we begin your journey with “SPARSH - Your Clinic for Wellness”, I hope everyone is sitting tight at their houses and keeping safe and for the one’s who aren’t, I wish them a speedy recovery 🙏🏻.
While there’s a lot of sickness, chaos and panic out there amidst the pandemic; While there are a lot of depressing news and updates coming in, there’s still a ray of hope that people are getting better too.
Before we share valuable information on various diseases or clear our queries, I have a few salient points to begin with.
1. Not every prevailing fever is COVID, however, it certainly doesn’t give us the liberty to be casual about this fever or ignore it before it results into COVID!
2. Not everyone needs to be tested with the long list of investigations like CBC, CRP, LDH, HRCT chest, etc etc. However, a single set of investigations done at the right time could just suffice.
3. Being diagnosed with COVID, doesn’t always means that you would require oxygen support and that the oxygen or the hospital bed should be kept handy.
Home quarantine/Isolation is sometimes all that is needed. Judiciously use the resources and spare them for the needy and the sick.
4. Remedesivir/ Fabiflu are neither the treatment preferences nor are the essentials to treating COVID, mostly a simple course of Paracetamol coupled with some anti-allergies, good hydration and Vitamins +/- oral antibiotics can also do wonders, provided taken at the right time for the right duration.
As we begin, It’s my heartiest requests to the masses to not to over-treat or over-investigate, don’t indulge in WhatsApp regulated treatments or hearsay. Don’t be ignorant right at the beginning of any fever. Treat it, take care of it and do consult a Registered Medical Practitioner before you decide to follow any prescription or get yourself investigated.
