Some doctors remind that if more members of the family are vaccinated, the whole family will be more effectively protected.
The Easter holiday is approaching, and I believe many Hong Kong people will gather with relatives and friends or travel abroad. However, the new coronavirus has continued to be active in Hong Kong recently, and the epidemic is still raging in some tourist hotspots for Hong Kong people. We must be careful to guard against a new wave of outbreaks. Some doctors remind that although most healthy adults have mild symptoms of COVID-19 infection, the impact of COVID-19 infection after recovery cannot be ignored. Moreover, once the infection spreads to the elderly and children in the family, fatal complications may occur.
Dr. Shen Chak-on, a pediatrician at Gleneagles Hong Kong Hospital, reminded that although most young people who contract the epidemic will have relatively mild symptoms, if it spreads to the elderly and children at home and in the community, the consequences will be disastrous. He pointed out that studies have found that about 2% to 6% of infected children are critical cases, which can even induce the fatal complication “Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children” (MIS-C), and 80% of children need to be admitted to intensive care in children. Ministry, even death. Elderly people who are infected are more likely to suffer from respiratory failure, high blood pressure, heart and kidney damage and other problems. The hospitalization rate and mortality rate for the elderly aged 70 and above are more than four times higher than those of other age groups.
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13-year-old Peter has always been healthy in the past. After being diagnosed with COVID-19 in March 2022, he developed fever, chills, shivering, persistent vomiting, abdominal pain, loss of appetite and other problems in July of the same year. He sought medical treatment many times but his condition did not improve significantly. Instead, his blood pressure dropped, his urine decreased, and his eyes became red. After he was admitted to the hospital, he developed symptoms of acute gastroenteritis accompanied by hypovolemic shock. He was diagnosed with multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children and needed to be admitted to the Children’s Intensive Care Unit. He even needed to receive cardiotonic drugs to improve his condition.
Dr. Ho Jing Jing, director of the Family Medicine Center of Gleneagles Hong Kong Hospital and consultant family medicine doctor, also cited local research. More than half of COVID-19 recovered patients develop at least one long COVID-19 symptom, which lasts for about 6 to 12 months. Common symptoms include fatigue, memory impairment, and cough. , shortness of breath and insomnia. In addition, multiple studies have pointed out that there can be more than 200 symptoms of COVID-19, which can be spread across multiple organs in the body, and can even be complicated by chronic diseases such as cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and type 2 diabetes, with far-reaching consequences. He pointed out that regardless of age, one should try to reduce the chance of infection as much as possible and protect oneself and those at high risk around them. If more members of the family are vaccinated, the whole family will be more effectively protected.
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2024-03-11 17:18:20
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