When COVID-19 and influenza "join forces", how should we respond? These 4 types of people should pay more attention
The weather is getting cooler, and with the recent high incidence of influenza viruses, it may be a small cold, and for some groups, it may be a deadly "sharp knife".
The tragedy of the tragic death of an 8-year-old boy due to external cold and influenza, sepsis and fulminant myocarditis has been reported before, and according to doctors, the child's accident is inseparable from viral influenza. #不带感冒回家 #
The flu season is coming, and the 4 types of people pay more attention
1) Children under the age of five, especially children under the age of two
According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, more than 20,000 children under the age of 5 are hospitalized with influenza in the United States each year; 146 children die from flu-related illnesses in 2014-2015 alone.
2) Elderly persons over the age of 65
About 70% of the people hospitalized by seasonal influenza are elderly in this age group, and the risk of death is also the highest.
3) Women who are pregnant and within two weeks after childbirth
Changes in the immune system and cardiopulmonary function during pregnancy make influenza more likely to cause related diseases, and it is easy to cause miscarriage or premature birth.
4) People suffering from the following chronic diseases
Asthma, neurological or neurodevelopmental diseases, chronic lung diseases, heart diseases, blood diseases, endocrine diseases, kidney diseases, liver diseases, etc.
When the flu is onset, patients generally show headaches, runny nose, coughs, sore throats... Do you think these symptoms seem to be somewhat similar to the pneumonia infected by the new coronavirus? Is COVID-19 an upgraded version of the flu?
Will COVID-19 eventually turn into the flu? WHO: There are 7 differences between the two
In fact, although both the flu and the new coronavirus can cause respiratory diseases, there is still a clear difference between the two:
1. The transmission time is different, the flu spreads faster than the new crown, but the median incubation period of the new crown in the human body is longer;
2. The time of transmission of the virus is different: the spread of influenza virus occurs 3 to 5 days after the patient begins to develop symptoms, and the new crown virus is stronger, generally appearing within 24-48 hours;
3. The infectivity is different: 1 patient of influenza may infect 1 person, while the new crown, a patient accidentally operates, can infect a village;
4. The proportion of severe disease is different: 80% of people infected with the new crown virus will show mild or asymptomatic disease, 15% are serious infections, and 5% are extremely serious infections;
5. The mortality rate is different: according to the current data, the mortality rate of new crown pneumonia is 3% to 4%, which is more than ten times higher than that of influenza;
6. There is a difference between susceptible groups, the main risk groups of influenza include children, pregnant women, the elderly and people with chronic diseases and immunodeficiency, and the 8-year-old boys mentioned in the opening paragraph are high-risk groups of influenza; for the new crown, the current study shows that the elderly and people with other diseases face a higher risk of serious infection.
7. The treatment measures are different, and there are now anti-influenza virus drugs and avoidance, but there is currently no licensed new crown pneumonia vaccine or treatment drug.
Faced with the dual pressure of influenza and new crown prevention and control, what should we do?
"Small cold, big cold, cold into a clump", the big cold festival is also a cold period of the year, which also means that the influenza virus will enter an active period. The temperature difference between morning and evening requires us to pay more attention to the body and the environment.
1, do a good job of cold and warmth
In winter, it is suitable to go to bed early and get up late to nourish the yang. Before the clinic, you can soak your feet with hot water and massage the fountain points on the soles of your feet to facilitate the storage of yang qi and the accumulation of yin essence.
2. Wear a hat to protect the yang
The top of the person's head is the place where the yang qi gathers, to prevent the cold wind from entering the evil, and not to leak the warmth of the head. Wear a hat when you go out, be sure to blow dry your hair in the morning, and pay attention to protecting the yang.
3. Keep the air circulating and close the windows at night
You can't close the windows to death because of the cold weather, as if you live in a secret room, and the enclosed space is most likely to breed bacteria. It is best to open the window three times in the morning, middle and evening, each time for 15 minutes, to keep the indoor air fresh.
4. Exercise moderately and bask in the sun
Although many outdoor sports events are limited in winter, it is also necessary to try to maintain the amount of exercise per week. If it is a sunny day, come out and move around more, bask in the sun, can strengthen the yang qi, warm through the meridians.
The virus is very "cunning", and it specifically selects people with weak physiques to "start". At the beginning of the Spring Festival, the crowded environment is the most likely to infect each other, wear our masks, pay attention to keep warm when going out, this is the best way to prevent influenza and new crown.
5. Susceptible people use drugs in advance for prevention
In the expert consensus on the prevention and treatment of autumn and winter epidemics in traditional Chinese medicine in Jiangsu Province, it is mentioned that front-line prevention and control personnel, close contacts and susceptible groups (there are chronic underlying diseases and the elderly, etc.), for influenza viruses and new coronaviruses, they can adopt the principle of "healthy qi in the presence, evil cannot be dried" and "false evil and thief wind, avoiding sometimes", and prevent the disease before the disease is prevented by taking the proprietary Chinese medicine Jingjing granules.
Qidali Jing anti-granules are derived from the famous prescription for the treatment of the epidemic "Jing anti-defeat poison dispersion", which is copied from the jing anti-defeat poison dispersion formula, medicinal taste, and drug volume ratio 1:1, and the whole party is composed of 11 flavor herbs, which are used for wind and cold cold, influenza is a wind and cold offender lung certificate, especially in the initial stage, the evil of the epidemic poison first attacks the lung surface, the dispute between good and evil is handed over to the lung surface, the head and body pain, dry cough and less phlegm, and the use of the evil is very good, and the disease progress is intercepted when the epidemic poison has not yet entered.
