The country has added more than 40,000! The epidemic situation is particularly severe. Reminder: You may wish to keep these medicines at home
Except for Hainan and Guangdong, many parts of the country will usher in a strong cold wave and cooling weather recently, and the temperature in many places will drop below 10 degrees, which means that the real cold winter is coming! However, the national epidemic data has skyrocketed, and the total number of new local infections on November 27 has exceeded 40,000! It can be said that the current domestic epidemic situation is running at a high level, and the situation of epidemic prevention and control can be described as severe and complicated!
The reason for the rapid spread of this round of epidemic is related to the rapid spread of Omicron and its strong concealment. No matter which province you are in, the epidemic may happen to us one day!
The epidemic has lasted for nearly 3 years. I believe that everyone is already familiar with preventive measures such as wearing masks, washing hands frequently, and exercising more to enhance immunity. Infection, even if it is only a close contact, needs to be isolated and observed at home. People often experience various discomforts during the home observation process. At this time, if there are no medicines around them, they will feel at a loss. So, everyone, please keep this guide to essential medicines at home today.
Doctor's suggestion: During the epidemic, you might as well keep the following 6 medicines at home:
1. Antiviral drugs
Although it is not easy for us to obtain anti-COVID-19 drugs, in addition to COVID-19 virus, other viruses such as influenza virus, respiratory syncytial virus, adenovirus and rhinovirus can also cause disease, so we can always keep at home like Os Tavir capsules, ribavirin granules and other antiviral drugs have certain curative effect on influenza virus and respiratory syncytial virus.
2. Cough medicine
Cough is often one of the most common symptoms of an upper respiratory or lung infection, whether it's COVID-19 or another virus, or bacteria. If you have a dry cough without phlegm or little phlegm, you can try to use cough medicine for symptomatic treatment, so you can prepare some central cough medicine such as dextromethorphan.
3. expectorant
For the cough mentioned above, if it is a cough with a lot of phlegm, it is not suitable to use cough medicine at this time. You can use phlegm medicine first, and then take cough medicine after the symptoms improve and the sputum decreases. Bromhexine Hydrochloride Tablets, Ambroxol Hydrochloride Tablets, Carbocisteine Tablets or Oral Solution and other expectorants are cheap and easy to use, so you can always keep them at home.
4. Antipyretic and analgesic drugs
Fever is also one of the common symptoms of viral infection, so antipyretic drugs are indispensable for home medicine, such as ibuprofen, acetaminophen and other antipyretic drugs, which are relatively safe and are the most commonly used antipyretic drugs. If there are children in the family, you can also reserve antipyretics suitable for children such as ibuprofen suspension and acetaminophen suspension.
5. Allergy medicine
Allergic symptoms will inevitably occur at home. Anti-allergic drugs such as chlorpheniramine, loratadine, and cetirizine can effectively relieve allergic symptoms and respiratory catarrh symptoms caused by viral infection. You can also keep them at home .
6. Chinese patent medicine
Chinese patent medicines such as Jinhua Qinggan Granules, Lianhua Qingwen Capsules (Granules) and Shufengjiedu Capsules (Granules) recommended by China’s COVID-19 Pneumonia Diagnosis and Treatment Guidelines can clear the plague and detoxify, ventilate the lungs and expel heat, and can be used for For patients with clinical manifestations of fever and fatigue, the combined use of western medicine can bring out the best in each other, so it can also be kept at home.
Although it is not a medicine, it is also recommended that families with conditions can buy some N95 masks. Once the epidemic comes, these masks are the ones that can really resist the virus. Ordinary protective masks are still weaker.
If there are elderly people or relatives with relatively poor immunity at home, you can prepare an oxygen generator or ventilator if possible, because the lungs are most often affected by COVID-19 virus infection, especially if you have underlying lung diseases such as For patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, oxygen therapy is the most important non-drug prevention and treatment method, and a ventilator may be needed if necessary. Of course, having said so much, I would like to remind everyone again that vaccination is the most effective measure to prevent and reduce the risk of severe disease, so don't forget to get vaccinated!
