Residents are urged to be aware of happy hypoxia cases.
REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA – The Task Force for Handling Covid-19 in Malang City, East Java stated that there had been no cases happy hypoxia alias silent hypoxemia in patients who have tested positive for Covid-19. However, residents must be aware of these conditions.
“Hopefully this will not happen, because the mobility of Malang City residents is also high. For this reason, the community must also be vigilant,” said Malang City Covid-19 Task Force spokesman Dr. Husnul Muarif, in Malang City, Saturday.
Husnul explained, happy hypoxia is a condition of lack of oxygen levels in the blood, but is not accompanied by any complaints or symptoms in patients who are confirmed positive for Covid-19. In some cases, the patient appears to be fine and has a slight shortness of breath, even though the oxygen saturation level is around 70 to 80 percent.
Symptoms hypoxia only felt after the patient had severe pneumonia. In the case of positive confirmation of Covid-19, according to Husnul, patients have several categories, ranging from mild, moderate, severe to critical symptoms. Generally, Covid-19 patients have symptoms of pneumonia or pneumonia.
“Judging from the word,”happy“it’s happy,”hypoxia“It lacks oxygen. This is one of the manifestations of Covid-19, but people feel there are no symptoms,” explained Husnul who is also the Head of Disease Prevention and Control (P2P) Malang City Health Service (Dinkes).
Husnul explained, conditions happy hypoxia different from pneumonia or pneumonia in patients positive for Covid-19. Happy hypoxia did not cause any complaints from patients confirmed positive for Covid-19.
Husnul said, patients with happy hypoxia can stay active as usual. However, suddenly someone’s oxygen demand will be inhibited.
“The lack of oxygen is one of the things caused by exposure to Covid-19,” said Husnul.
Meanwhile, cases of Covid-19 with pneumonia can be detected because there are symptoms felt by the patient. Some of the symptoms of pneumonia include fever, cough, shortness of breath, chest pain when inhaling or coughing, decreased appetite, weakness, and increased heart rate.
“If there is clear pneumonia complaints, there are symptoms in the respiratory tract, that’s definitely it,” said Husnul.
To date, in Malang City there have been 1,590 confirmed positive cases of Covid-19. Of the total, 144 people were reported dead, 1,048 people were declared cured, and the rest were still being treated.
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