What Does Post-Covid Recovery At Home Look Like?

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So a Covid-19 patient has been discharged from hospital. How must we take care of them at home? Dr. Sanjeev Kumar demonstrates…

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00:00As you can see, I just got discharged from the hospital and came home.

00:09This is a minimum setup in which a person generally improves in 10-12 days.

00:14In this video, I would like to explain that if a patient is coming home after being discharged from the hospital,

00:21then what all arrangements should be made.

00:24As you can see, I just got discharged from the hospital and came home.

00:29Now, let me take you inside the house.

00:32Some people may have individual rooms in their house.

00:35Some people may have individual sections in their house.

00:41This is my room, which should be there for my patient when I come home.

00:46Good lighting and air.

00:49Adequate fluid for eating.

00:52Juices, soups, cut fruits.

00:56Reading instruments or mobile phones for entertainment.

01:00Hand sanitizers, gloves, mask and face shield for those who will come inside and take care of the patient.

01:08A chair for the patient.

01:11Some things that I will explain later.

01:14And a bed.

01:15Let's say, I just got discharged from the hospital and came home.

01:18After coming home, I will rest.

01:21How long should I rest?

01:23I should rest for 8 hours a day.

01:26How should I do it?

01:28Oxygen saturation is less due to direct sunlight.

01:32We saw in the hospital that if the patient sleeps upside down, which is called prone ventilation.

01:41If you sleep like this for 8 hours and use a pulse oximeter during this time,

01:47then you will see that oxygen increases a lot.

01:52So try to sleep upside down for 8 hours a day, most of the time during the day or at night.

02:02Try to sleep like this or like this.

02:06And you should always have a pulse oximeter with you.

02:10It should show your pulse saturation between 95 and 100.

02:15Then you are fine.

02:17Those who are staying in bed for a long time, they will start exercising.

02:23Which exercise?

02:24First of all, this leg exercise.

02:26Keep moving your legs like this.

02:28Because many people get clots in their legs.

02:32If you keep doing this leg exercise, the clots will reduce.

02:36Second, deep breathing exercises.

02:39While lying down, take deep, light breaths.

02:48Do not always lie down.

02:50After 3-4 hours, either with a tape or on the edge of the bed, if you have the courage,

02:58try to exercise on the edge of the bed.

03:02Which one?

03:03If possible, move your legs.

03:05If possible, move your hands.

03:07And if possible, try to do deep breathing exercises.

03:13As time goes by, weakness remains for a month.

03:17After 15 days, the weakness starts to decrease.

03:21When you take more care of food and water, a person's condition improves.

03:27He needs something to eat every 3-4 hours.

03:31Second breathing exercise is respirator meters.

03:35What is the purpose of one respirator meter?

03:38There are three balls.

03:40There is an instrument to blow.

03:51If you take a deep breath, the ball rises.

03:53How many balls you can lift depends on the strength in your chest and lungs.

03:59If you blow it upside down, the ball rises.

04:06Do this for 5 minutes every hour or two hours.

04:11This will increase the capacity of your lungs and improve your breathing capacity.

04:18When you start doing these things in the bed,

04:23After that, get out of the bed.

04:25Get out of the bed and spend an hour or half an hour on the chair.

04:29In which you will keep moving your legs regularly.

04:34Breathing exercises.

04:36Take your arms out and breathe.

04:38Take your arms in and breathe.

04:41Pull back.

04:44Leave it ahead.

04:48You have to do these exercises every day.

04:50Apart from this, if you try, you have to do 10-15 minutes of worship every day.

04:56Because it increases faith.

04:58And this gives the man the strength to come out.

05:03Do not always wear a mask.

05:05You need to wear a mask only when someone comes into the room.

05:09Otherwise, you can live without a mask.

05:12When the condition is better than coming out of the chair,

05:16Then try to walk a little in your room.

05:20Or go out of the room and walk a little.

05:23Second thing.

05:24You have to pay a lot of attention to food.

05:27Fever, weakness and not feeling hungry are the biggest symptoms of Corona.

05:32Which remain even after 14 days.

05:34This does not mean that the disease is not cured.

05:37It means that you have to take simple paracetamol pills for fever.

05:43There are a lot of liquid diet juices, soups and fruits in food.

05:48And a lot of faith and a lot of care is needed.

05:52This is a minimum setup in which a person generally improves in 10-12 days.

05:58Those who are not infected or have a fever should not come to this room.

06:02Keep children and old people away from this room.

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