How to deal with COVID-19 if you have it.

(Based on personal experience)-

  • At very first, don’t at all ignore the symptoms if your body shows it.  Go for the COVID-19 test as soon as possible. Don’t be careless, just be ready to stand in a long queue. 
  • And most importantly don’t panic. Although it is very difficult to do.

Symptoms-

Current Corona situation in India, Early it will grow no symptoms or a little bit of symptoms like mild fever, headache, sore throat, mild coughs,etc but these symptoms will gradually increase as the viral infection spreads more in the body.
You’ll start to cough more and more and also your temperature will increase gradually. And along with this there will be difficulty in breathing when the virus is affecting more severely. 

Personal incidence-

Part-1 Current Corona situation in India

The incident was, one of my aunt at her early stage of infection started showing these mild symptoms. We went to the hospital for her test. But the doctor refused to do her tests by telling it’s just a normal viral fever nothing else, so no need to do the test. As he was a professional doctor we agreed to him. But as 2-3 days passed the patient’s condition became more severe and worse. We again rushed to the hospital and somehow gave the blood samples/ blood test. The result was covid positive. That news was really shocking for us. We went to the capital city’s hospital. But there were no beds available to admit the patient.
So after many requests a good position holding faculty said that he would arrange a bed for us but we have to be ready to pay a huge amount. ( No less than 1 lakh per day). After knowing the heavy amount, we decided to admit her in a government hospital. 

Part-2 Current Corona situation in India

Soon as we went to the government hospital we saw the crowd and the long queue. The queue was so long that it almost took 4 hours to wait there and the patient’s condition was worsening. So eventually we decided to go back to the private hospital again unless we have to pay 1 lakh per day. 
Then after getting into the private hospital , they checked and said- even though all the symptoms have been showing but we couldn’t admit the patient now because her breathing saturation was ok. And they first admit only those who have abnormal breathing. So the next day at 4:00 p.m. we got the bed. 

Part-3 Current Corona situation in India

My aunt was 35 year old and she was having two children (one was 6yrs old and another of 13 years) and her husband was a heart patient.  And now it is the time to check whether her  family is covid  positive or negative. It takes an another long procedure to do this , you have to tell the doctor that you were in contact with a covid positive person  then only the doctor will allow you to give the test.  The good news was that her husband was tested negative, but worst news was that both of the child tested positive.  ( But they were showing no symptoms at all)
As there is no medicine or treatment available for covid-19 patients so the doctor will give only the medicines according to your symptoms. Like if you have a fever, doctor will just give you paracetamol. Or if cough then will give you cough’s medicine and so on.

The frustrating scenario-

In this whole scenario, the very panicking thing was that non of us were knowing the next right step. No one was having any clue. Because when you call different doctors they will give you different suggestions. Some will say don’t admit the children to hospital they will be more exposed to the virus. some will say to admit the children as soon as possible otherwise conditions will become more serious. Some will prescribe you medicines, some will not. It was so confusing.
But ultimately we decided to admit them into the hospital too. Because it was necessary to keep the children away from their father ( as father was COVID- negative). We tried a lot to admit them into the hospital but there were no beds available, we tried too much but still, there was no chance of getting admitted. As during the past 4-5 days, coronavirus infected patients have increased incredibly. So all the beds are full now.( Not even a single bed is left).

Part-4 Current Corona situation in India

As there was no chance of getting a bed in hospital, we disappointingly took the children back to home. In this disease ultimately your body has to fight, so isolation and taking a healthy nutritional diet regularly during this disease can help you out boosting your immune system. And the main remedies that helped to recover were kadha (Corona kadhai), steaming, and gargling. It took five to six days to start recovery but the weakness was still prevailing for some more days. After 10 days my aunt returned back to home after her recovery. So ultimately we came upon an opinion that there is nothing to much worry about. If you follow a proper nutritional diet even if you are positive along with the khada or steams or gargles (unless your symptoms are not critical enough) you can easily recover...Read more

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