What do I need to prepare for home treatment of a new coronavirus infection?

What do I need to prepare for home treatment of new coronavirus infections?

1. As far as possible, home treatment patients should live in a relatively independent room in the home and use a separate bathroom.

2. Families should be equipped with personal protective equipment such as thermometers, tissues, masks, disposable gloves, disinfectants, and disinfectant products and garbage cans with lids.

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Requirements for self-management of home treatment personnel

1. Health monitoring and symptomatic treatment. Home treatment personnel should take temperature and self-health monitoring once a day in the morning and once in the evening. If symptoms such as fever and cough occur, symptomatic treatment or oral medication can be administered. If necessary, they can also contact the medical staff of primary health care institutions or consult the relevant health care institutions through Internet health care. Asymptomatic persons do not need medication. When taking medication for home treatment, the person must follow the instructions of the medication and avoid blind use of antibacterial drugs. In case of underlying diseases, there is no need to change the dosage of drugs being used for treatment of underlying diseases when the condition is stabilized.

2. Referral for treatment. If the following conditions occur, you can be referred to the relevant hospital for treatment by self-driving car or 120 ambulance.

Difficulty in breathing or shortness of breath.

Temperature continues to be higher than 38.5℃ for more than 3 days after medication.

Pre-existing underlying disease is significantly aggravated and cannot be controlled.

Children with lethargy, persistent refusal to eat, feeding difficulties, persistent diarrhea or vomiting.

Pregnant women experience headache, dizziness, panic, breath-holding, or abdominal pain, vaginal bleeding or fluid, or abnormal fetal movement.

3. Control going out. The home treatment personnel do not go out or receive visits unless necessary. For those who really need to go out for medical treatment, they should take good personal protection throughout the whole process, arrive at the medical institution point to point, and then return home point to point after medical treatment, and refrain from taking public **** transportation as far as possible.

4. Personal protection. Home treatment personnel should be well protected, as far as possible not to contact with other family members. If the home treatment worker is a breastfeeding mother, you can continue to breastfeed your baby on the basis of good personal protection.

5. Antigen self-testing. The home health care worker should conduct antigen self-testing and report the results according to the relevant epidemic prevention requirements.

6. Infection prevention and control requirements.

Open windows and doors regularly every day to maintain indoor air circulation, do not have natural ventilation conditions, available exhaust fans and other mechanical ventilation.

Do a good job of ventilation and disinfection of toilets, bathrooms and other *** enjoyment areas.

Hands should be washed or sanitized when preparing food, before and after meals, and when taking off and putting on masks.

Cover your mouth and nose with a tissue or cover your mouth and nose with the inside of your elbow when coughing or sneezing, and dispose of used tissues in the trash.

Don't use household items with other members of the family***, and wash and sterilize utensils after use.

The surfaces of objects that may be touched by home healthcare workers on a daily basis, as well as the towels, clothes and covers they use, should be cleaned and disinfected in a timely manner, and the personal belongings of the infected person should be placed separately.

If the family **** bathroom, home treatment personnel should be disinfected after each use of the bathroom; if the home treatment personnel use a separate bathroom, can be disinfected once a day.

Used tissues, masks, disposable gloves and other household garbage should be put into plastic bags and placed in special garbage cans.

Items contaminated by saliva, sputum, etc. are sterilized at any time.