What is the Coronavirus Antigen Self-Test? What should I do if I test positive? Mobile phone newspaper to take you to know!
There are 4 structural proteins in the new coronavirus, of which N protein (nucleocapsid protein) is the most expressed. After an individual is infected with the new crown virus, N protein appears in the throat. Antigen detection is the detection of N protein, whether the N protein is detected can indirectly reflect whether it is infected with the new crown virus.
Antigen detection: convenient, can be operated at home; fast, 10-20 minutes out of the results; disadvantages: no nucleic acid test sensitive, may appear false negative results.
The first is to go to the primary medical and health institutions for treatment, accompanied by respiratory tract, fever and other symptoms and symptoms within 5 days; the second is to isolate and observe personnel, including home isolation observation, close contact and sub-close connection, entry isolation observation, sealing and control area and control area of personnel; third, community residents with antigen self-testing needs.
No. Nucleic acid testing remains the basis for confirming COVID-19 infection. Antigen detection, as a supplementary means, is conducive to improving the ability of "early detection". In other words, it is to promote the monitoring model of "antigen screening and nucleic acid diagnosis".
Personnel who test positive for antigens should immediately report to their communities (villages and towns), and the community (villages and towns) will contact the emergency center to transfer residents to medical institutions that set up fever clinics for nucleic acid testing.
At the same time, the sampling swabs, sampling tubes, test cards, etc. after the positive personnel are loaded into sealed bags and transferred to medical institutions for disposal as medical waste.
Those who have a negative antigen self-test but have symptoms are recommended to go to a medical institution that has set up a fever clinic for nucleic acid testing as soon as possible; if it is inconvenient to seek medical treatment, they should self-isolate at home, avoid going out, and conduct antigen self-testing once a day for 5 consecutive days.
On the 15th, the first batch of new crown antigen detection kits in Hunan have arrived at the library. Some stores of Yifeng Pharmacy have taken the lead in listing sales, and the follow-up will be listed in various stores in Hunan Province, and residents can buy them in offline retail pharmacies. At present, Changsha Chaoyang Store and Evergrande Yayuan Store are available for sale, and Gaoqiao Great Health Medical City Keyuan Medical Equipment City can also be purchased.
>> home self-test for 15 minutes to produce results
The new coronavirus antigen detection kit sold by Yifeng Pharmacy this time is the new coronavirus (2019-nCoV) antigen detection kit (colloidal gold method) produced by Nanjing Nuoweizan Medical Technology Co., Ltd. The product specification of the new coronavirus antigen test kit is 20 people per box, each serving has a separate package, with simple operation and accurate results. After purchasing the new crown antigen test kit, residents can go home and follow the product instructions for self-testing, and the results can be produced in 15 minutes.
The official website of the National Health and Health Commission released the "Diagnosis and Treatment Plan for Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia (Trial Ninth Edition)" on the 15th, which made key revisions to optimize the procedures for case detection and reporting, and to classify and treat cases.
On the basis of nucleic acid detection, antigen detection is added as a supplement to further improve the early detection capacity of cases. At the same time, the efficiency of diagnosis or exclusion of suspected cases is improved, requiring those whose suspected cases or antigen test results are positive to immediately undergo nucleic acid testing or closed-loop transfer to higher-level medical institutions with conditions for nucleic acid testing. Those who have a positive nucleic acid test result shall be subject to centralized isolation management or sent to a designated hospital for treatment, and shall be directly reported online in accordance with regulations.
According to the opinions reflected in various places that "the patients of the Aomi Kerong mutant strain are mainly asymptomatic infected and mild cases", most of them do not need too much treatment, and all of them will occupy a lot of medical resources when they are admitted to designated hospitals", and further improve the classification and treatment measures for cases:
1. Mild cases are subject to centralized isolation management, and relevant centralized isolation sites cannot isolate people entering the country, close contacts and other groups at the same time. During the isolation and management period, symptomatic treatment and disease monitoring should be done, and if the condition worsens, it should be transferred to a designated hospital for treatment.
2. Ordinary, severe, critical cases and cases with severe high-risk factors should be treated intensively in designated hospitals. Among them, severe and critical cases should be treated in the ICU as soon as possible, and patients with high risk factors and a tendency to severe disease should also be admitted to the ICU for treatment.
Two specific anti-coronavirus drugs approved by the State Food and Drug Administration were written into the diagnosis and treatment plan, namely: PF-07321332/ritonavir tablets (Paxlovid) and domestic monoclonal antibodies (amphavir monoclonal antibody/romizumab injection).
Combined with the experience of clinical treatment in various places, the application of non-drug therapies of traditional Chinese medicine has been strengthened, and the content of acupuncture treatment has been increased; combined with the characteristics of children's patients, the relevant content of children's traditional Chinese medicine treatment has been increased. (National Health Commission, RedNet Synthesis)