Report from Wartakotalive.com reporter, Lilis Setyaningsih
TRIBUNNEWS.COM – When tested positive for Covid 19, patients must be aware of its emergence happy hypoxia.
Happy hypoxia is a condition in which levels are high oxygen in the blood down. If not treated immediately, severe hypoxia will occur.
Patients can lose consciousness and even die. Positive patients are prone to Happy Hypoxia even with mild symptoms or people without symptoms (OTG).
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Dr Fathiyah Isbaniah Sp.P (K), M.Pd. Ked said, sometimes someone who has hypoxia doesn’t feel anything in the initial condition and hasn’t felt tightness.
When rates oxygen is really low, the brain does not respond up to oxygen really drop to a very low rate.
When this happens it is usually fatal. Unconscious and even died.
To avoid this, he suggested that positive Covid patients who are self-isolating should also carry out examinations oxygen in the blood using a pulse oximeter.
In the market this tool is also quite affordable, between Rp. 200,000 – Rp. 1 million.
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“In the hospital the patient is checked at least 2 times a day oxygenhis. When at home, the same thing should also be done, “said Dr. Fathiyah during an event on Radio Sehat, Tuesday (22/9/2020).
Incident happy hypoxia not only experienced by Covid 19 patients but also sometimes other respiratory diseases such as asthma.
However, like other respiratory diseases that do not necessarily experience hypoxia, not all Covid patients also experience hypoxia.
However, the doctor from Friendship Hospital suggested that if you are positive for Covid 19 and have suffered from a respiratory-related disease, it is advisable to monitor your levels more carefully. oxygen in the blood. This detection is to prevent fatal deterioration.
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