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Home quarantine tips for COVID-19 patients
Were you just detected as a travel-related/unrelated suspect case of novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19)? Well, home quarantine will be applicable. It is applicable to:
- Travel-related cases
- Focal groups arising from a travel-related/unrelated case where a containment strategy is adopted
- People coming from COVID-19 affected areas where local and community transmission is evident.
A contact in the context of COVID-19 is:
- If you’re living in the same house as a COVID-19 case
- If you’ve had direct physical contact with a COVID-19 case or his/her infectious secretions without recommended personal protective equipment (PPE) or with a possible breach of PPE
- If you were in a closed environment or had face-to-face contact with a COVID-19 case at a distance within 1 meter including air travel
Home quarantine instructions for COVID-19 patients
Stay in a well-ventilated room with an attached toilet. If a family member needs to stay in the same room, it’s advised to maintain a distance of at least 1 meter between the two. Need to stay away from elderly people, pregnant women, children, and persons with co-morbidities within the household. Restrict his/her movement within the house. Under no circumstances, any social/religious gathering such as weddings, condolences, etc. should be attended.
COVID-19 patients should follow the public health measures mentioned below at all times.
- Wash hands thoroughly with soap and water or with an alcohol-based hand sanitizer (60% alcohol).
- Avoid sharing dishes, drinking glasses, cups, eating utensils, towels, and bedding.
- Wear a surgical mask all the time. It should be changed every 6-8 hours and disposed of. Disposable masks are never to be reused.
- Disinfect masks using ordinary bleach solution (5%) or sodium hypochlorite solution (1%) and then dispose of either by burning or deep burial.
- Used masks are considered possibly infected.
- If COVID-19 symptoms such as dry cough, fever, sore throat, difficulty in breathing, and tiredness occur, he/she should immediately inform the health expert.
Home quarantine instructions for the family members of COVID-19 patients
- Only an assigned family member should be tasked with taking care of the COVID-19 patient.
- Avoid direct contact with the COVID-19 patient’s skin.
- Daily clean and disinfect frequently touched surfaces such as bed frames, tables in the COVID-19 patient’s room with 1% Sodium Hypochlorite Solution.
- Daily clean and sterilize toilet surfaces with a regular domestic bleach solution or phenolic antiseptics.
- Use disposable gloves when cleaning and disinfecting frequently touched surfaces in the COVID-19 patient’s room.
- Wash hands after removing gloves.
- Clean the clothes and other linen used by the COVID-19 patient separately using common household detergent and dry.
- Visitors should not be allowed.
Home quarantine duration
The home quarantine period is for 14days. In case the COVID-19 patient becomes symptomatic, all his close contacts will be home quarantined (for 14 days) and followed up for an additional 14 days or till the report is negative on lab testing.
Efficacy of Homeopathy in Epidemic and Pandemics
Reportedly, homeopathy has a track record of preventing, managing, and dealing with the outbreaks of infectious diseases on a large scale. It has proved efficacy during multiple epidemics and cases of flu in the earlier decades.
In 1921, when the Influenza epidemic hit the world, a study from Ohio concluded that 24,000 people were treated allopathically with a mortality rate of 28.2% while the 26,000 people given homeopathic treatment reported a mortality rate of 1.05%. (Source: National Health Portal)
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