How to care for a person with covid at home

The accumulated covid incidence at 14 days does not stop rising in Spain. In the last few hours, it has stood at 784 per 100,000 inhabitants, setting a new record for infections per day of more than 60,000 people. The sixth wave of the coronavirus pandemic is hitting the country hard and there are many people who remain isolated in their homes on these special dates after testing positive. It is time to adapt to an anomalous situation and spend the days in the best possible way. Also the safest. For this, it is necessary to follow the guide for isolation at home after testing positive for covid and that the people who live with the sick are clear about how to care for a person with covid at home.

We start from the basis that older adults and people of any age with serious conditions should call their doctors as soon as symptoms appear, so these tips are for those thousands of people who are testing positive for antigens these days or PCR and pass the disease mildly or asymptomatically. If you are caring for someone with COVID at home or in non-health care settings, follow these tips to protect yourself and others.

Support the sick

The first and most important thing is to help the patient meet her basic needs:

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Secondly, we must be attentive to possible warning signs and in the event of a worsening of health, call the doctor. For medical emergencies, call 911 and tell the dispatch operator that the person has or may have COVID-19. Some of the symptoms to resort to medical services are the following:

Limit contact as much as possible

When a person tests positive for covid, they should be kept separate from the other members of the household, following the following advice and recommendations.

eat in separate rooms

From the point of view of food, the patient must lead a life totally parallel to the rest of the house. The sick person should eat in his own room, his dishes and cutlery should be washed independently with gloves and hot water, and hands should be cleaned after removing the gloves.

Hand cleaning is something that should be done frequently. With soap and water or a hand sanitizer that contains at least 60% alcohol. In addition, as since the beginning of the pandemic, we must avoid touching our eyes, nose and mouth without having washed our hands first.

Of course you cannot share plates, glasses, cutlery, towels, sheets or mobile phones with the sick person.

Clean surfaces and objects

Finally, if a member of the house is sick with covid, it is necessary to disinfect the house continuously, especially surfaces and objects with frequent contact (doorknobs, light switches, telephones...), as well as areas visibly dirty. Surfaces must always be cleaned with a product suitable for the corresponding surface and following the instructions on the product label.