In 2020, the novel Coronavirus pandemic devastated the world with insurmountable damage caused to life and the economy. While millions lost their lives due to unpredictable circumstances and markets crashed, scientists globally were racing against time to find a way to slow the snowball effect of this deadly virus. Fortunately, today, we have a vaccine that can help reduce the intensity of the infection and prevent severe damage to the patients.
Fast forward to two years, and we’re slowly making an incline in rebuilding our systems. With the great leap that science took, today it is possible to quickly check and treat an occurrence of COVID-19, which is not as lethal as it was before. However, there still are cases surging every now and then due to the mutating nature of the illness. This blog will address what you can do in 2022 if you suspect a COVID-19 infection.
- Check your symptoms: If you think you have gotten the infection but aren’t sure, try tracing the most common symptoms. Sometimes, it is easy to mistake a common cold and flu with the Coronavirus. For the same reason, track your symptoms and oxygen levels for the time period until your recovery. Breathlessness, heart palpitations, prolonged fever, loss of taste and smell, blurry vision, fatigue, and others are symptoms you need to watch out for.
- Self-isolate and inform others: Once you have established that you suspect a COVID-19 infection, it is enough grounds to isolate yourself from the uninfected. Make sure that you take a break from work even though you’re not showing major symptoms. Inform everyone who has come into close contact with you in the past week to monitor themselves, so that they can do the same. While home isolating, make sure you have a well-ventilated room and fresh linens that you change often.
- Get a home test done: In the past, getting a COVID-19 test was intimidating, but today, it is highly simplified. You can get COVID rapid antigen testing done from the comfort of your home. These self-testing kits take just 5 minutes to show you your results and are highly accurate. If you’re showing symptoms but your test shows negative, stay isolated till the symptoms subside past the incubation stage.
- Follow the doctor’s advice: Consult your doctor for medication and health supplements in this time to heal properly. If you’re showing adverse symptoms, the doctor would monitor you regularly with online appointments, which makes self-care easy.
- Rest and sleep to boost recovery: Most of all, the speed of your recovery also relies heavily on how much rest you receive. Sweep aside work and stress and just focus on getting better first!
Final Word:
While tracing back the source of your infection may be a complicated process, it is highly necessary to make sure that you pay immense attention to your health in the recovery phase. If you work from an office and visit a lot of people, make sure to take all the preventive measures to avoid reinfection. We hope that this blog could help you find actionable steps.