Doctors: Covid Patients with Mild Symptoms Need an Oximeter at Home

An oximeter can help check oxygen levels.

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA – The oxygen level measuring device, namely oximeter has become a topic of discussion in cyberspace today. One of them is related to symptoms happy hypoxia or decreased oxygen levels that can lead to death in Covid-19 patients.

Regarding this, a specialist in heart and blood vessels, Vito Anggarino Damay said, happy hypoxia can be experienced by patients with mild symptoms of Covid-19 who are being treated independently, so they need to provide an oximeter at home.

“Someone who happy hypoxia there may be mild symptoms that are not noticed, not completely symptomatic. “Maybe you need to provide them at home for those suffering from mild Covid-19 who are self-isolating,” he told ANTARA, Monday.

In Covid-19 patients, an oximeter can help check oxygen levels so that when the patient’s oxygen level is low it can be detected early.

These devices are usually small and easy to carry. This device is attached to your fingertips and then how well oxygen binds to your red blood cells will be measured. Healthy people’s numbers on the oximeter are between 95-100 percent.

According to Vito, who is often a resource in discussions about Covid-19 at the BNPB office, in the Covid-19 case, actually happy hypoxia rarely happening.

The main symptoms of the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus are still fever, coughing, shortness of breath, and anosmia or loss of the sense of smell.

“Happy hypoxia This is a rare manifestation, so we better focus on preventing the disease, “said Vito.

Then can healthy people be affected happy hypoxia? Not, happy hipoxia nothing would happen to a completely healthy person, said Vito.

But can a healthy person have an oximeter at home? Vito allows it. He himself has this tool to prove the daily use of masks does not interfere with oxygen saturation.

But he warned, the oximeter would be useless if someone neglected to implement health protocols, namely maintaining distance, washing hands and wearing masks.

“Just like I still often find people wearing masks but wearing them under the chin or in crowds without maintaining a distance. So my message is to keep yourself healthy,” Vito ordered.

source: Between

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